[Discuss] RP island?

[Timothy Collett]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Anthony Anderson wrote:
> Violators can then be dealt with by a No-RP Ban, which basically  
> the FEI rulers have been using OOC bans to do already.

There still needs to be a way to deal with rulers--the rulers who  
don't punish the offenders, and the rulers who are, themselves,  
offenders (though I would say that the former are offenders, too, by  
refusing to punish those who are actually committing the offenses).

> Also been an advocate of tying the SpellMasters back into BM  
> somehow.  Not sure if making them mods is the perfect idea, but if  
> you're looking for someone to continue a storyline, having player- 
> controlled SpellCasters running around in any fashion is sure to  
> keep people on their toes.

I *really* like that idea.

> One other simple idea is to disable OOC messages on this new RP  
> island.  And to ingrain everyone there to simply ignore OOC tags  
> put in by players.

I've never understood how that was supposed to help.  There will  
always be times when you need to say something OOC--and it seems to  
me that that would be *especially* true on a continent where roleplay  
was *really important*.  What if, for instance, someone you're RPing  
with said that his character, I don't know, lifted up a whole cart  
with one hand?  Or pulled out a handgun, or something equally  
ridiculous?  Now, if there was a true RP police/council/overlord/ 
whatever, that could be petitioned, in a short period of time, to  
officially throw out part of a RP, that would handle egregious  
violations (like someone who RPs his character sneaking into your  
character's rooms and murdering him, then getting away clean, when he  
has no infiltrator skill whatsoever)...but do you really want to use  
that for every time someone forgets that he's actually two regions  
away writing letters, and can't, in fact, slap your character across  
the face?

I can see trying to encourage people to, for instance, come up with a  
good RP reason for their character's inactivity when they're going to  
be gone for a while--but what if something comes up unexpectedly, and  
you want to be able to just tell people in the 5 minutes before you  
leave, so as not to leave things completely hanging?

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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