Roleplay ?

[looqas]

The way I see it is that winning > loosing. Big time. And when winning becomes the sole purpose then things do take a turn for the worse.

In my observation of Disco there are two ways of getting enjoyment out of the game. I assume there are no masochists here.

A) Roleplay
B) Owning in PvP.

But the uber kicks come out of RPing and owning in PvP. That's like the maximum high you can get from Disco.

As I personally suck at PvP (I dream of becoming a good PvPer also) that leaves me only one viable way to have fun is RP and thus I can live with inferior hardware and can and will take ass whooping from ever second guy out there. But that's fine as long as I can get the satisfaction out of the RP.

But everybody needs to feel that he has a fighting chance. But the problems arise when RP is not involved in the events anymore, like a weekly bloodbath. Is running away an viable option in the PvP events? Not really. In those cases the RP is just a front for the main thing. Her the main source of enjoyment comes from winning. In those events the has to be paper-rock-scissors principle in play or else... And if one side always have a sharper scissors, bigger rock and harder paper everybody can really see where that leads.

For random encounters PvP deficits are ok. Not likable but people can live with that. It still makes me cringe inside. That is if the opponent is manly enough to let me run. And that's why I'll gladly have backup.

The bigger the percentage of non-RPers the more PvP oriented the athmosphere is. It's perfectly normal for people (I'm talking about the general mass in the server) to collect up all the guns to ensure maximum probability of a chance encounter with hostiles. The big problem is that RPers let themselves get caught up by the masses with it and let the masses change them and not the vice versa.

Who want's to join a faction when you personally see that you can pwn them with your assortment of cherries? Nobody unless you can show them that there's more to be had than pure ownage.

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