ON ROLEPLAYING

Devlin · Post by **Devlin** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:42 pm

I was on Lands of Lore from the beginning and RPING WAS VERY ENFORED, that was changed because it was a mess because the pgers kill the rpers all the time. Player complained the the pgers which all played evil characters mostly, seem to just invade other fractions and would kill them, causing much grief. And doing it over and over again. Saying because they were evil they killed (like okies kinda) I just caught DM Rage playing there the other day, it was funny our charcters met since we were playing dwarfs at the time, I always do on rp servers, and his log in looked familar. It was Dm Rage. I showed the noob a few thing lol......

Billiard · Post by **Billiard** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:18 pm

Before I found NS I played on Thandalar, the PW for the Guild Medievil. The DM there really loved to RP, and literally people would spend ours chatting and building back-stories for their character in-game. Now that server rarely had more than 12 people on it at a time, but if people do that in NS I would expect it could generate a lot of lag, as happens when people loiter in town now in NS3. Hopefully there will be regular meeting places like taverns and such that RPers can go to in order to work on backstory building and such.

Post by **Lokey** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:26 pm

Sir Sean wrote:WHAT ROLEPLAYING ISN'T:
...An unrestricted license for PvP. If you're griefing, you're griefing.

Don't lose sight of the topic, plz.

Additionally, telling us that RP has failed in other modules doesn't help. Let us know why it failed, maybe it's an issue we've already addressed or are working on (you never know).

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Lag for a lot of players in the same area is a bandwidth issue. Home connections rarely get better than 784 kb/s up (and I don't see that, even with Comcast's gauranteed 3Mb connection), and with 40 players on that's 2 kB/s per player in the best scenario. Pcs and npcs need to update more frequently (animations, equip swap, and so on) than tiles or placeables--hopefully a not too tech explanation

. We'll look into this further.

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:54 pm

mabe stick the 2 main servers in PW Action and the other two in PW Roleplay?

Also, with the PP part, i'd think an open season on rogueish looking people standing beside you is in order

Nerdlor The Destroyer · Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:22 pm

One thing that has been overlooked thus far is the simple fact that all players are men/women/other that have been pulled into this world from other planes of existence. There's nothing to say that they're coming from a medieval world to another medieval world. Perhaps they come from a technologically advanced civilization? Perhaps they come from a religious mecca theocracy? If you've never tried to RP before, ask yourself this:

"If I, right here and now, were pulled into this world of magic and monsters how would I react?"

Then base your actions off of that.

powerferret · Post by **powerferret** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:31 pm

yes! I was trying to come up with a fluent way of saying that, but Nerdlor beat me to it, and probably said better than I would have too.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:58 pm

Have any of you played Rifts before? It's an RPG from Palladium Books. The setting is post-apocalyptic Earth where High-technology and High-magic meet. Pretty much like Aetheria, but the rifts happen everywhere and powerful mages can open them open and close them at will. They even have rules for "Culture Shock" that Nerdlor is describing. :)

Nerdlor The Destroyer · Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:41 pm

Oooo... does that mean I can have a Glitterboy?

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:50 pm

No. I played a campaign as a Robotech Veritech Pilot, someone else was a Fairy Dragon... one was a Gizmoteer from Ninjas and superspies and the fourth was a Jedi heheh. So if you get a Glitterboy... I get a Jedi (complete with lightsaber). Juicers are cooler anyway (Go with the Dragon Juicer).

Post by **TGPO** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:28 am

Snobish Glitter Boy in his slow moving no rate of fire armor. Gimme a headhunter and a good NG-47 anyday.

See, that was RP too becuase in the context of that environment that is exactly what I would have said. There is a happy medium where the two (PG and RP) can meet in the middle, if you dont believe me take a close look at all of the DMs. Everyone of us has found a happy midpoint, it can be done and it adds tons to your experiance.

Not saying I dont go in on occasion with the thoughts of nothing but cathartic bloodshed at times still, but I will say that the best night I ever had in NS was a bard a thon where we never left town.

Snerd · Post by **Snerd** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:29 am

WOW didnt know they had glitter boys on NS4

D00D · Post by **D00D** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:07 am

Glitterboys sux... that cannon lol

anyway.. i prefer one of the cyberknights or the juicer (the one with the *chemical* enhancers) =)

but glitterboys in NS4 would most likely be clerics wearing heavy armor and shooting arrows with zen archery =)

Daltian · Post by **Daltian** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:02 am

Macifer wrote:The question then remains: will you understand that it's my character who's angry and not me?

Depends how you react. If I find it funny I might even play along. If you say it is for rp reasons, i'll shut up, and never bring the subject again. But if you attack me for RP reasons. You''ll die in very non RP way and you'll wish you had better waepon that could actually hurt me!

But I don't belive that I'll be fighting you my fellow dwarf. Althoug we are strongest of all races, we still need all our strenght to smite our enemies.