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Old 08-16-2012, 01:43 PM   #31
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Re: Dealing with RP Attention Hogs

That may be the crux of fiction, but we are running virtual worlds here. Fun is not always about conflict or creating interactive fiction. Sometimes the fun comes from immersing yourself in a fantastical world. That is something that quite often does not, and should not, involve conflict.


Hmmm. I already did?

If someone types 140 words a minute and uses that to scroll the screen such that his RP dominates everyone else, there's often no legit/realistic IC action to counter it.

In fact, to try and get them to stop typing so much might actually be super OOC. Especially if a lot of the things the person is typing are mood setting emotes or personal actions (not just speech) so you can't even say IC "hey, can you quiet down?"

In the past we had had things like someone showing up at an IC wedding as a guest, and they type 10 times more stuff than the primary participants. Things like emoting about fidgeting in their seat and all sorts of random stuff just to get attention. There's no great IC counter.

Ask them to leave? Why?

Ask them to be quiet? They aren't talking.

RP Attention Hogs are very often a pure OOC problem.
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