Been bugging me awhile now...

[Fro]

I'm roleplaying my character sending a message, you roleplay yours by reading it or not.

"Sending Transmission" - Roleplaying your character sending a message.
"Incoming Transmission" - Roleplaying for my character to receive your message.

No Mr. Punch, there will be no sanctions as it is not against the rules?

-edit- Let's decipher this SMS scenario. You send me a text from your phone, the process being: You choose a target, write a message, and then click "send." I am then informed that I have a new message by my phone.

So to be formal, wouldn't you write something at the end of the post like "Sending Transmission" instead of "Incoming"? Doesn't that make more sense?!?!?!

[Kazinsal]

So if I send you an email, and then your email client says "receiving email", then I'm powergaming your computer because I'm making it say "receiving email" by sending you a message?

What?

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Retired, permanently.

[Fro]

If you're sending me an email, let's say on a command-line interface, you wouldn't write "Incoming Email" as your rp before the message, you would write something like:

Programming Email Interface
Message Reads...

[message]

Message Ends...
Sending Email...

This makes more sense because it's on YOUR end, you aren't the one receiving, you are the one sending, and thus, to rp receiving is to powergame my character, who is receiving the email you SENT.

[Kazinsal]

Interesting. So we've been mindlessly and subconsciously powergaming for years.

The thing is, how do we simulate someone's message retrieval system without powergaming, mmm? Is that even <strike>possible</strike> practical?

EDIT: Nothing's impossible... trust me... but is it practical?

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Retired, permanently.

[Fro]

The only message retrieval system you should simulate is... your own. If you are sending someone a transmission, simulate yourself sending it. Formal RP would then be for the receiver to simulate their role of receiving, and if desired, replying. That is role play, playing your role, not another person or the role of another persons computer. Right?

[Akura]

It only becomes an incoming transmission if you choose to read it.

And if you are reading the 'incoming transmission' you're actually reading it, so the transmission is 'incoming'.


Until you read it, it's in your inbox, if you don't want to read it, then don't.

[Fro]

Again Zoey, you're still powergaming my system/inbox informing me of a transmission. Should we not presume that our roleplay posts are confined to where and who we are and what we have? You are not my inbox, what gives you the right to roleplay it in your post? You have access to your system, why not roleplay your system sending the message? Doesn't that make more sense?

[Akura]

No one ****ing cares mate.


It's so insignificant, this isn't harmful powerplay, this is just some Comms channel stuff.

No one is anal enough to care.

[Evan_]

I don't want to remind anyone that besides being players here, we are also storytellers by some extent. But realy, don't tell it anyone because it either goes to their head or causes claustrophobia and conspiration theories.

By the way, the folder in my email box called 'incoming', and not 'sent to you' or any of it's variants.

Powergaming? No. Semantics? Yeah.

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[Kazinsal]

Again Zoey, you're still powergaming my system informing me of a transmission and/or my inbox. Should we not presume that our roleplay posts are confined to where and who we are and what we have? You are not my inbox, what gives you the right to roleplay it in your post? You have access to your system, why not roleplay your system sending the message? Doesn't that make more sense?

At this point we should just stop using messages altogether, since whatever we do it's powergaming. You're digging yourself into a hole to the point where even you sending messages to someone is powergaming, since you're forcing a message to be sent in-RP over the neural net servers which you do not control in-RP. So even a simple task such as withdrawing a few credits from your bank account is technically powergaming, aye? For some reasons, powergaming is either an evil necessity to push RP forward.

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Retired, permanently.