[Discuss] Role Play Island.

[Alex Davies]

>From: bpratt <saintmaggot at gmail.com>
>
>
>What exactly makes you so sure all powergaming is done IC? What makes you 
>so
>defensive? I'm not complaining because there was ANOTHER 6 vs 1 war... my
>complaint is how little RP there is around it, especially in the origins.

I resent the thought that no-one RP's this war. I have an absolute ton of 
arguments with my ruler (indirectly about joining this war, one of my chars 
disagreed with it so he went priest, the other is currently campaigning to 
have rights to duel every ally I meet BEFORE the attack, just to delay any 
war effort.

I RP a lot in private, that is the way strings of RP's often go, but I do RP 
in public still, especially at tournaments with a lot of crap 
throwingbetween personal enemies. Recently I RPed about my career change to 
Cavalier (with the new experimental tax system I can get about 20% of the 
realm income, whee)

>From :  Mark Moss <battlemaster at mmoss.org>
>If you don't like your
>ruler's policys on RP, feel free to elect a new one.
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>IC issue.  People do nasty things in war.  Use it as justification for
>expanding/continuing the war.

Bull. First point: it takes a lot of votes to change your ruler and if 20% 
of the realm has stupid names, and there's another 20% that for IC reasons 
likes the current ruler, you can't do it. not too mention that you can't 
force elections easily in monarchies and theocracies...

Second point: That's an IC issue but that it's IC is no reason not to RP it 
*at all*. there should be something written about what you do. It's 
understandable that you don't want to see tons of long messages, but when 
the largest realm on the FEI is 40 players maybe? Be realistic, even 
rulership shouldbn't take too much time.

I quote the front page, "Although you can delve deeply into it and spend 
more time on it, about 15 minutes per day are enough for regular play, and 5 
will do if you are in a hurry." I haven't spent that amount of time on BM in 
ages because delving deeply into it is too much fun as this is a great game 
with lotsa opportunities, and I now spend at least an hour a day, and that's 
barely enough. that is literally me skimming over most of my messages making 
a conscious decision about whether or not I will move... planning when to 
get banned, and what to loot before skipping off the island... spying for 
the enemy realm, since there's only 2 people in the realm otherwise in it 
and I need 8 others... poking my hired assassin to see how he's getting 
on... there's a lot of depth and takes a lot of time.

>From :  Lyman Stone <lymanstone at alltel.net>
(not gonna copy out all of his message because this will get far too long, 
if it isn't already...)

I agree. But there should be some speech. I have literally pages of 
discussion with one other person in my realm from about a week ago, that 
took forever, and probably spammed the hell out of the realm, just arguing 
about the most effective way to destroy our enemy, not that any plans will 
be used properly becaue our realm sucks.

When I hired 9 scouts after I was pissed at a 1 hour travel delay, I RPed 
about it. When I had the option to tell my tale in enemy territory (not that 
it worked) I RPed about it. When I wrote the newspaper, that was RPing (Hmm, 
you reckon EC has more RP than FEI then?). When I was on SEI in a forward 
scout group, I RPed about it (and it went a long way! People still talk 
about my char even though he's dead, and besides it was great fun). When we 
were told we were going to war, I RPed about it. And I still RP. But mostly, 
it's just normal letters of an IC nature.

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