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beanluc · 04-06-2015, 02:27 PM

Hard to respond, without knowing what "expect" means here. Even more to the point, what is the reaction to someone who has failed to meet that expectation? Maybe this question is really more about that, than it is about the expectation? Are players who are uninterested in making the game's Lore part of their gameplay being treated negatively?

Speaking for myself, what doesn't make sense is NOT having a double standard in an environment where there is a double paradigm (some people RP, some people don't, apparently nobody's supposed to be required to, someone wants to encourage RP, someone else in the same game doesn't even want to accept RP).

What a mess.

Enforce it or eliminate it. Speaking for myself, nothing else makes sense.

"Enforcing it" doesn't have to mean anything more "heavy handed" than making players understand that "you are not your character, your character is not you", and that your character is in a world you aren't in, and that roleplaying means that the character behave according to ITS world, not The player's world. If admins are observing a RP character behaving in a way which is not valid RP for the world, is it heavy handed to show the player how they and all the other roleplaying players expect RP to go? And if it's not an RP character, sure, let them go behave like a player in 2015 C.E. Earth instead of a character in 103 T.E. Middle-Earth.

04-06-2015, 02:27 PM	#3
beanluc New Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 18	Re: Enforced lore, encouraged RP Hard to respond, without knowing what "expect" means here. Even more to the point, what is the reaction to someone who has failed to meet that expectation? Maybe this question is really more about that, than it is about the expectation? Are players who are uninterested in making the game's Lore part of their gameplay being treated negatively? Speaking for myself, what doesn't make sense is NOT having a double standard in an environment where there is a double paradigm (some people RP, some people don't, apparently nobody's supposed to be required to, someone wants to encourage RP, someone else in the same game doesn't even want to accept RP). What a mess. Enforce it or eliminate it. Speaking for myself, nothing else makes sense. "Enforcing it" doesn't have to mean anything more "heavy handed" than making players understand that "you are not your character, your character is not you", and that your character is in a world you aren't in, and that roleplaying means that the character behave according to ITS world, not The player's world. If admins are observing a RP character behaving in a way which is not valid RP for the world, is it heavy handed to show the player how they and all the other roleplaying players expect RP to go? And if it's not an RP character, sure, let them go behave like a player in 2015 C.E. Earth instead of a character in 103 T.E. Middle-Earth.