[Discuss] Roleplay / Letter / Report / etc

[James]

Tom Vogt wrote:
> psymann schrieb:
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>> Report - additional comments I've heard on this are:
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> It's intended for those, well, reports that get sent around. Stuff like 
> "here's the regions I scouted this turn" or other scribe notes or like 
> material.
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> Purpose: People who organize this stuff (e.g. generals) can filter by 
> report and skip all the chatter inbetween.
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>> But the main issue seems to be between Letter and Roleplay - probably 
>> because these two are used the most.
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> My personal definition:
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> A letter is something addressed to someone (or multiple someones), in 
> the style of a letter, an e-mail or whatever else you have  - direct 
> speech in first person.
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> A roleplay is where you describe what you did, what happened - indirect 
> speech from a 3rd person perspective.
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> And if you've received it, with no further instructions (such as "OOC: 
> private roleplay, just wanted to share it for entertainment"), then you 
> should assume your character got a copy, by whateverr means common sense 
> dictates.
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> If the sender doesn't want you to "use" it, he should at the very least 
> say so, or better yet: Not send it to you.
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>> 3) Encourage Tom to make two minor game adjustments
>> - to change the drop-down options for messages so that instead of Letter 
>> being default, you have to pick one.  This means people must think which 
>> they want rather than sending letters for everything, and also stop 
>> people sending letters by mistake because they forgot to select an option.
>> - to put a link next to the drop-down menu that links to the wiki page 
>> I'll write as part of (2) so that people understand what to use the 
>> different options for.
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> Rejected. Letter is ok as a default type. It removes one unnecessary 
> click from the most common case.
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Perhaps your definition could be added to a help page somewhere, Tom?