I'm here today collecting inputs and opinions from Community member regarding Alien RP, specificly the AI and Nomad Speech.
Now many have told me, even though I'm one of those members that have been in this community for long and actually been supporting the complicated spam of symbols RP in my time (which I actually did alot of RP with, until it turned into /l1 /l2 /l3), that this sounds like an excuse to just make the Speech "simplystic" which I call a huge BS (sorry even to PRIME leader and HC).
Nomad Speech
Now I've withnessed Alley's nomad Roleplay a couple of time and honestly that's actually something I expected as simple as a Nomad RP can be without being TOO simple but at least display exactly how a Nomad would talk.
Kinda like how the Rachni Queen talks in echoes and waves. If I remember I saw alley's RP by just these symbols:
**...Test of test...(warmth)..'Ours'...test your tests..(!)..** <- or something in that way, the points pretty much give a feel of echoe in between like it's talking into your mind trying to assemble words of your language that fits to the nomads. The huge symbol puke is a real mess, I know some of the vets might still like to RP that way and it's fine alright. However, we've grown as a community into a kind of RP where we just want to understand the person infront of us rather than piecing a puzzle together for 2 hours long (yes I remember having a RP with K'Hara in the old days taking so long until someone actually understood what was meant).
[11:09:43] alley: I play a lot with visions and dreams
[11:09:59] alley: I find it more interactive than spouting **** in local chat
And I agree with her 100% here.
AI Speech
Now many of you might even not know how the new AI speech is all about. I've heared this from many which joined or which I tried to explain how to Roleplay as an AI "Wow it feels as complicated as Nomad RP", yes.
I agree, it was a goal from me ones to make it as complicated as the K'Hara Roleplay, however... Lately I figured this all spam of symbols bullcrap is stupid as hell and alot of TIME WASTING for interactions. Just think of all the possibilities of interactions we could actually have by having at least a little more simply structured Roleplay.
I'm not saying drop down to human level of Speech, no definitly not. But find a connection between the meaning of the roleplay or HOW they roleplay and implement it like that.
::<query> [need] -> "Iridium" [units] #1000 [?]::
This is literally a mess. I'm sure I'm not the only one having trouble in Roleplaying the way like that. Why not having the old "Robot" talk way in the old days? [Stuff_do_here_we_robot_transfer_energy_in_Core_{?}_/start_<control>_command_harvest.] <- this is just a harsh example.
Why not give said symbols to nomads and other symbols to AI's. Let Nomads use *** .... ( ) "stuff" or 'Ours' those wiggly lines (somehow keyboard doesnt want me to)
and give AI's solid brackets [ ] Stuff_stuff_stuff. {!} {Y/N} <query> <control> /start /end
This discussion of mine is just a way of cooperate as a community together and build up these Roleplays for greater interactions. My visions are always something that everyone understand and feels comfortable in interacting with, not just the Faction and its members themselfs, let's not be selfish here!
PRIME does a good job so far on talking in an adequate manner, while indi AIs mostly tend to have a adapted speech pattern. Both can be done very well, as I experienced here.
