Rights lists

[cmfalconer]

Read the faction's backgrounds, goals, and the associated player factions backgrounds and goals. There you will find everything you need to make sure you're not breaking some faction law.

He did. SCRA's goal is to take over Sirius, one system at a time. But some people bitched about that too much and it's now garbage. Apparently one faction can't take their RP seriously if it affects another faction w/ "The Inner Circle" running them.

And that whole GC thing...is Kirutsu, Kiritsu, whatever, even official? Can they make GC policy on RP that, other than taking place on a station in the guard system, doesn't really concern them?

You're looking at this from a black-and-white standpoint and then demanding that someone give you this list, without considering the amount of work it would involve for a rather small return.

Because everyone that we've dealt with is using the black-and-white standpoint as well. So why not ask for it since people seem to be using it?

They need to learn to do some of this on their own and act responsibly and appropriately.

And get smacked down by the "Inner Circle" when trying to do something original, creative, non pewpew RP? All RP is a power trip to get that person's ideals to be the predominant ones wouldn't you say? LPI doesn't go around saying "Oh, terribly sorry, you are correct that those slaves will have a much better life on Malta".

What unwritten rules? You've really not given us anything beyond 'player rights.'

How 'bout the one where a player has to think about how his/her personal RP is going to affect any and all factions and players he/she will ever interact with in the course of his/her story, and prior to doing any of it, either in-game or on forums, get the blessing and permission of all said players and factions that he won't affect anything.

Status quo ftw! pew pew.

You've called for it, but you won't tell us what you really want.

I've read the entire thread, you're avoiding my question.

Maybe you're avoiding the answer. Alvin is asking what these sort of unwritten rules because he doesn't know them. It's like asking a 3rd grader to describe Quantum Mechanics, it's unfair.

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Yeah, this does stem from the Ontario thing, and from the GZ Artifacts thing. Maybe it's just coming to the defense of my faction-mate, maybe it's trying to sort of where the direction of Discovery's community will go. Exponential Growth leads to exponential problems, and we're starting to get the "Old Guard vs New Guard" argument again.

SCRA has tried, through Alvin's (arvg for those that don't know) efforts, to create some non-standard RP. I would have very much enjoyed policing Ontario for Citizen Katz as an SCRA (our ID allows slave/drug traffic interdiction) as part of the RP on keeping a safe Ontario. But that opportunity is down the drain because certain persons weren't notified beforehand of what could take place. Instead of "Oh, look here at this intel report. Socialism in Ontario!" blah blah; they decided that this isn't the way they want their Disco to go, and slapped down the newbie.

Coming to this big shiny server, seeing all the wonderful opportunities for RP, and taking some of those opportunities, it seems a new player has to know everything before he's allowed to start RP'ing his/her own ideas. But if they ask questions, they're also smacked down for OORP behavior on the server or lambasted on the forums ("Go read the wiki noob! Use the search noob! Not this AGAIN!").

Friendly environ we're contributing to here. Many people talk in their General Discussion threads that there's "lots of potential RP here" in many situations, but a lot of times that RP either isn't done, or tried and torpedoed by the Status Quo of Disco.

So maybe not a set of individual's rules (Server rules) or faction rules (Faction Rights), but instead, something that new players could use to help them along with their individual RP.

Edit: And I'm really just leaving, because you can't tell someone something they're not willing to listen to.

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