' Wrote:Having an inactive Liberty official faction is just as OORP as having an actively invasive and militant Zoner faction that attacks Rheinland while maintaining peace on the forums.
No, having characters inactive is not ooRP. That is senseless. The comparison with a Zoner faction is in fact not a comparison, and is a completely different situation.
You need to differentiate between an inactive character and an inactive faction. An inactive faction does not imply an inactive character. For example, low activity on behalf of the Liberty Navy would not mean that Admiral Dale as a character would get demoted - the Disco universe is still 'happening', Dale is still commanding war fleets and directing logistics. It just happens that when the John logs in Dale, he is actively controlling the RP.
' Wrote:No, it is not wrong, and that is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that roleplay should be represented by ingame activity. A character cannot exist in this community purely through forum stories. Yes, the stories are great. You have a more detailed, vivid character. But if you want to roleplay a flying ace, you need to ace a few people ingame; if you can't PvP for your life, then it's rather silly roleplaying a flying ace, don't you think?
If John wants to write about being an ace, then what's wrong with that? If he wants to roleplay an ace *in-game* then of course he needs be able to win at PvP.
' Wrote:Carlos mines daily. This is not a discussion of individual characters, anyway; in general, RP should be represented by activity. Faction roleplay should be represented by faction activity. Individual roleplay should be represented by activity. No, not on an hour-for-hour basis. If you want to say you killed someone in your roleplay story post, you should kill someone ingame. If you want to say you mined niobium in your story post, you should mine some niobium ingame. If you want to say you are now arresting all haulers of Engine Components in Liberty, you should arrest a huge amount of those haulers ingame.
If you can't perform your roleplay then what good is it?
There are a lot of activities performed by factions that would become unbearable, if you had to rp them out ingame. For example, tech requests, bounty board payouts, hiring new recruits, the list goes on. If you expected an ingame scenario to be played out for every forum rp decision, then yes, the 300 hours would probably be reached. But then, I'd just want to stop doing anything after a week or so because of the sheer tediousness of it all.
' Wrote:No, having characters inactive is not ooRP. That is senseless. The comparison with a Zoner faction is in fact not a comparison, and is a completely differen situation.
If John wants to write about being an ace, then what's wrong with that? If he wants to roleplay an ace *in-game* then of course he needs be able to win at PvP.
What's wrong with that? There's plenty wrong with that. John's roleplay is fine when contained to the roleplay stories. But what about when his imaginary exploits as an ace bleed into the communication channel and start to affect policy that shapes ingame roleplay? That is unacceptable.
' Wrote:What's wrong with that? There's plenty wrong with that. John's roleplay is fine when contained to the roleplay stories. But what about when his imaginary exploits as an ace bleed into the communication channel and start to affect policy that shapes ingame roleplay? That is unacceptable.
' Wrote:There are a lot of activities performed by factions that would become unbearable, if you had to rp them out ingame. For example, tech requests, bounty board payouts, hiring new recruits, the list goes on. If you expected an ingame scenario to be played out for every forum rp decision, then yes, the 300 hours would probably be reached. But then, I'd just want to stop doing anything after a week or so because of the sheer tediousness of it all.
No, don't do it ingame. Roleplay the consequences ingame. (Of course you do! You hunt the bounties, roleplay with the new recruits, and you play nice with the people using your tech.)
Well, as a corollary, it certainly does happen when factions roleplay a policy purely through the forums and then it becomes part of the tech chart. That's certainly one example of pure forum RP dictating ingame RP, without ingame activity. It's not about the tech chart, though.
' Wrote:Well, it certainly does happen when factions roleplay a policy purely through the forums and then it becomes part of the tech chart. That's certainly one example of pure forum RP dictating ingame RP, without ingame activity. It's not about the tech chart, though.
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