But when I am playing I'm generally playing on random anonymous characters whom I basically use to flit around from populated system to populated system. Basically checking up on things and changing ships/name/ID on a regular basis to jump up behind my fellow players.
Don't worry, I haven't killed anyone. So hold off on the admin abuse stuff. Most of you have taken my money.
My observation?
Everyone is basically "performing" poorly because everyone is generally doing it "wrong". In places I've frequented in the past there wasn't any //, you didn't stop to point out something like ID. People didn't generally get their shizz in a bunch because of errant conduct which kicked up their groove. They just flowed with it. Did the whole, you know, character immersion thing that they were so down with.
Of course they weren't contending with the personal responsibility system of ships/ID/etc, which is basically poison in an open community but what can you do.
The point of the above? RP isn't a title you can slap on anyone, chill out about the "lolwuts" and generally be the best you can personally be. That is the best example you can set. The argument about /l versus system is rather moot within than context. Sometimes its appropriate, sometimes it isn't. Try to figure out which is which on your lonesome.
I know that I digressed more than a touch with the above but, well, just had another one of those evenings of running about with a mask on. Tonight with the intention of seeing about giving a little high five to persons whom displayed an ounce of initiative. Was good times, I think people enjoyed running across something unexpected.
But for the five people whom actually stepped out of the beaten path for a half moment there were tons of others whom didn't really care, or get it, or weren't interested. So it sort of bugged me. Not so much the people who didn't get it from the onset, but moreso the people who ran up to my unique little rig and launched into a line such as your ID is wrong, this isn't your ZOI and other forms of good times facepalmery. Because some of the people who launched into the good times face palmery are the ones making threads like this, worrying about what the new guy is doing instead of running out there asking themselves if things are really being helped by hovering a finger over the / button.
But I guess that's the problem of having a system as complex as ours. So what can you do.
