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Jazuela · 03-27-2008, 06:41 PM

Just a guess here, but possible that the admins don't chime in because the point of all this isn't to appease the admins of these games. It's to help players identify games that match their playing criteria. RPI, which could just as well stand for Really Peculiar Incense as anything else, was considered for years BY PLAYERS OF THOSE GAMES as a catch-all to identify those games. Notice the all caps on the "by players of those games." Notice it doesn't say "by game admins." This is intentional. Just as RPI stands for Rippling Pectorals International.

You see, it really doesn't matter what the letters of RPI "stands for." It matters what the term has come to mean over the years, for people wanting to play a certain type of game. YOU can change what it means to yourself, as much as you'd like. But when I and dozens of other people who have played this particular type of game, are in the market for a similar type of game, with similar criteria, WE will be looking specifically for that similar criteria. And we will be calling it RPI. And if we see an advertisement for a game that claims it's an RPI, and we go to the website, and don't see that it's got that criteria, and then we actually attempt to play the game (which most of us wouldn't do, if the info wasn't on the website, because THAT is one of the criteria too), and see that it isn't permadeath, or that it is pay to play, or that it has a HUGE "verblist" but no emote system, then we will be very disappointed and know that we were deceived - whether intentionally or not.

Because as you all know,

RPI stands for Remove Paper Insert.

03-27-2008, 06:41 PM	#90
Jazuela Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: New England Posts: 849	Re: Guidelines for an RPI mud. Just a guess here, but possible that the admins don't chime in because the point of all this isn't to appease the admins of these games. It's to help players identify games that match their playing criteria. RPI, which could just as well stand for Really Peculiar Incense as anything else, was considered for years BY PLAYERS OF THOSE GAMES as a catch-all to identify those games. Notice the all caps on the "by players of those games." Notice it doesn't say "by game admins." This is intentional. Just as RPI stands for Rippling Pectorals International. You see, it really doesn't matter what the letters of RPI "stands for." It matters what the term has come to mean over the years, for people wanting to play a certain type of game. YOU can change what it means to yourself, as much as you'd like. But when I and dozens of other people who have played this particular type of game, are in the market for a similar type of game, with similar criteria, WE will be looking specifically for that similar criteria. And we will be calling it RPI. And if we see an advertisement for a game that claims it's an RPI, and we go to the website, and don't see that it's got that criteria, and then we actually attempt to play the game (which most of us wouldn't do, if the info wasn't on the website, because THAT is one of the criteria too), and see that it isn't permadeath, or that it is pay to play, or that it has a HUGE "verblist" but no emote system, then we will be very disappointed and know that we were deceived - whether intentionally or not. Because as you all know, RPI stands for Remove Paper Insert.