Blue message?

[Jihadjoe]

Heh, honestly I don't see anything disheartening in PvP death...

There is hope! Please... keep hold of this attitude. Fight, win, lose, explode, cause explosions... Whatever. There's never shame in losing, and there's not that much pride in winning. Use that attitude to help you treat people fairly in game. Fight on equal terms and enjoy it.

I personally calculate my e-peen based on the length of my RP posts and not blue messages

Yet I still fear we are a minority in the community who value RP over blues.

Quality would be a better gauge. It doesn't matter how long a post is, but rather whether or not it's a good read. Same as PvP... Doesn't matter how many or how few bluemsgs you get, provided the folks in the fight had a good time.

Infact, I'd say calculating your e-peen's size is pretty much not what anything should be done for, ever... Nor should people really bother measuring it. "I'm doing this because it earns me points in an imaginary competition yadda blah"... Urgh... How dull.



Also, for those who still think PvP and RP are opposites, I'd refer you to Dieter Schprokets' avatar...



Without PvP, all your RP interactions would reduce themselves to "hello, goodbye" status, nothing would have any context, there would be no tension, no risk, nothing to struggle against... Your RP, for all its flowery language, would be deathly boring.

Without RP, all your bluemsgs would be lacking in context. There would be no purpose to it... no story to tell, just endless "ye, go, good fight", forever... Y'know why a lot of the PvP servers disappeared? Because after a while it gets boring. The reason this server still exists is because it can put freelancer's excellent combat into some kind of fictional context. It makes it mean something.

They support one another, they complete one another, they rely upon one another. Don't knock either...

Don't regard RP as some sort of more holy form of something or other (you know who you are)... That's arrogant stuff and you know it.

Don't regard RP as some sort of spineless airy-fairy nonsense, which gets in the way of all the gunfire... That's a stupid and arrogant position as well.

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