To be or not to be?

[tfmachad]

It's difficult to give an opinion over a one sided account, but to be generic here:

Responsibilities of a player engaged in ooRP building up a character, or role playing doesn't cease because you want it to

1) Look at yourself - it's harder for people to accept ignoring you if you're fully tagged and IDed according to a hostile faction. It's an unwritten rule, but it's common for players to use the Trader ID (not civilian because of the lvl 40 rule) in order to build a character. That should be enough for anyone to grab a fighter and go about grabbing equipment and correcting their reputations.

2) Watch where you're going - see if there are people that will likely take exception to what you're about to do in order to build your character there or in the way there, contact these people and try and talk them into ignoring you while you're at it and if the agree to it, be sure to let them know when they can again switch you back to their universe. Not many things are as irritating as someone asking you to ignore them, just to have them jump you half an hour later "because they're all done now". Extend back the cordiality they've extended you.

3) If you want to be ignored, be invisible and mute - that means, if you want to be an alienated entity, don't go about interacting/interfering with everyone else while in character if you aren't ready/don't want to fully participate in it.

Chivalry behavior expected from players while another is engaged in building up a character

Everyone eventually needs to build up a character. This is something hardly can be done in character. It's polite not to hinder people while they're at it, provided they've made it known to everyone interested that they're on to it.


In the end, it's the person building up the character responsibility to let everyone know they're onto making a character and it's not so difficult to protect yourself from attacks if you're just starting a character (grab a flipping Trader ID, let interested people know). While it's largely frowned upon not to let other players go about creating characters, it's everyone else's option to really let them (another reason to take certain measures to protect yourself when you're building up a character).

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