Roleplay - A guide

[carlabrams]

The winning at all costs that has slowly crept into game is seriously a cancer to this mod. It's like the attitude of going to look for a fight is becoming more prevalent than an attitude of going to look for good role play.

From my lofty status as someone who has played role playing games for a decade MORE than Del has (get my cane and rocking chair, I really AM a grandpa - :lol:) - I consider this to be a symptom of video game consoles.

We grew up playing board games with the family, and you'd have to interact with real, live people at the kitchen table. While you could move into larger games, those tended to fill up 4'x8' sheets of plywood. (Anyone who's ever played Terrible Swift Sword or World in Flames knows what I'm talking about.) Role playing comes from the roots of make-believe, and you actually had to use your imaginations. Sure, we would use miniatures on the table to represent our characters - but we'd also use an assortment of dice to represent monsters, or just pieces of paper sketched out quickly.

Nowadays, you don't have to pretend. The graphics immerse you into the game. And unfortunately, with the prevelance of games such as Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and other first person shooters - even though they can have a roleplay-like element in the game, they're just not truly RP games. With the ability of Freelancer as a game to be just another starship shoot'em-up game - and with so many other servers primarily just BEING shoot'em ups with no real RP elements - what happens is that people see the Disco Mod, think - "wow, cool, I can fly the big ships that I never could in the single player game" - and just join, never actually paying attention to the rules.

Then they get banned for violating the rules two weeks into playing - and that's when they make their first post on the forum, asking why they were punished.

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On a lighter note, Del forgot one term: The Akumabinto - the annoying player that has something happen to him and NEVER lets it drop, to point of ad nauseum. In real world games, this person would be told to never come back and play. Online, you're stuck with him until he gets perma-banned from the game and the forum.

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