[Discuss] Tournament features

[Mark Aubrey]

jstephens wrote:

> ... but if player used the Roleplay flag properly it wouldn't matter if there were
> 100 messages as I could simply skip those that aren't RP flagged or better yet,
> have a filter for just "Letters" as there is for "Orders".

At the tourney on Atamara, there were 323 attendees at the tournament.
 I didn't
count, but there were only a handful of messages that were sent as
"Letters" instead
of "RPs".  I confess, one of my chars sent one of them.  I forgot to
select RP.  Since you
stopped attending tourneys on Atamara because of the "asinine
"roleplays" that weren't
flagged ROLEPLAY" and I didn't see that happening on this one, I'd
invite you back to the
next one.

A filter would be a nice addition.

> I've chosen to be limitedly involved in tourney roleplays lately as they typically drift
> toward the inane (badgers) or "personal" (wedding that I have no involvement in...
> my character doesn't know the people getting hitched and is otherwise "crashing"
> the wedding).  Just finished a tourney on BT where we had some good rapport regarding
> Arcane and his supposed "godliness" or lack thereof.  Not bad but with only a couple
> dozen people it's much easier to pour through the message queue.  And hopefully
> we won't get "wedding night" RPs....

Hmmm... "personal" RPs.  I can see your point, but players can't just
stop their char's
lives because they're at a tourney.  One of the reasons for the
Tournament in Tucha was
for the wedding.  All nobles attending the tournament were invited to
the wedding and the
festivities following.  No one was 'crashing' it.  The other player
involved in the RP (the bride),
left the ceremony part of the RP open-ended so that other could join
in, had they chosen to.
I, the groom, left time (RL - about 6 hours) to allow it.  None joined
(probably because they
didn't want to 'spoil' the mood) but they could have.  And the
"wedding night" RP was extremely
tasteful, I thought. But I have a bias, because I wrote it.  You'll
have to seek other opinions on
that, if you'd like.

Now, had my char on BT joined the Tourney there, she would probably
have spoken of her
brother back in Falasan marrying the most wonderful woman on Atamara.
And she wouldn't
have given a flip about the "godliness" of Arcane, whether it was
properly RP-tagged or not.
So, you can't avoid it.  I can't avoid it.  We can chose not to read
them.  You have chosen
not to read them on Atamara by not attending.  But, please, don't try
to convince us that
tourney RPs are bad if they don't conform to your likes.

Summing up...
* Proper message tag usage would be nice if it were followed
* A few more message filters might be preferred
* All players can't be pleased in all situations
* You've been invited back to the tourneys on Atamara
* It is still a game
* I'm having fun with my fellow RPers (and I thank them)

-- 
Mark Aubrey
Tinsley Family


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