The situation in Omega-7

[Jinx]

"What's your definition of role play then? I'm really curious now."

roleplay is playing a role of a character - a character which is defined by what the character and only the character her/himself can experience. - it is also what a character wishes to do and achieve.

roles are as diverse if not more diverse than RL roles - and only very few RL roles involve justifying to kill someone - even if weapons were freely available and punishment for murder was light.


playing a role is nothing more and nothing less than picturing what a character would do in given situations. - depending on the characters cleverness, strengthes and weaknesses - that can be very exciting.



why are competetive situations bad for serius roleplay?



cause when you are in a competetive enviroment - you are going to try to avoid the more exciting sides of a character - the negative sides. - you only pick the good sides - AND to top it up ... you don t play the characters ROLE anymore.

for example:

- you are playing a drunkard pirate with a speech impediment aged 65
- you are babbling about as if you were and are drinking - and as if you re currently quite pissed

in a competitive enviroment - thats where pvp overrules the roleplay

- you are attacked by a liberty lawful
- hardly ANY player on disco will keep roleplaying the drunk pirate with his shaking hands - who s chances of survival are near zero in such a situation..... no - he will fight to the "players" best skills.... and that is not roleplay, that is pvp




also

having a rule that pops up in the console that "engaging/halt" is not enough to initiate combat speaks volumes about the roleplay which is applied / was applied as a standard.

discovery is not roleplay so much. ( not like it ever was ) - it DOES give the pvp some depth.

what some ppl mistakenly believe is that this is a quality issue and a "bad thing". freelancer is an arcade shooter - and there are MANY players who simply cannot GRASP the idea of factions who don t fire at others. - the idea of someone NOT focussing on fighting in an arcade fighting game is absurd... isn t it?

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