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Threshold · 09-09-2010, 02:21 PM

You missed the point there.

If you don't have any sort of built in OOC outlet, you push people to the off game methods that are far more damaging to your game.

People are going to talk OOC no matter what. To whatever extent you can mitigate the damage the better. You can mitigate it by supporting it in game, in a way that can be totally tuned out. In this manner it is almost like a pressure valve that lets off some of that OOC steam in a safe, non-cheating manner.

09-09-2010, 02:21 PM	#46
Threshold Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: Threshold RPG Posts: 1,260	Re: Veterans of Roleplay Intensive MUDs You missed the point there. If you don't have any sort of built in OOC outlet, you push people to the off game methods that are far more damaging to your game. People are going to talk OOC no matter what. To whatever extent you can mitigate the damage the better. You can mitigate it by supporting it in game, in a way that can be totally tuned out. In this manner it is almost like a pressure valve that lets off some of that OOC steam in a safe, non-cheating manner.