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everwood wrote:I'm going to give my perspective as a new player (a week and a couple days). No doubt this shows an inherent lack of wisdom on my part, because after all I have no idea what all this drama is about. Still, that might make my perspective unique in another way.
So on one hand we have the game, where you log in as your character and interact through your imagination. You get to play out your fantasies, providing the other players indulge you (more on that later).
On the other hand you have an OOC room, where a community of players meet for what appears to be the purpose of saying hello to other players, and making silly comments to each other. Occasionally someone will discuss wanting something in game, and they will then log on and interact.
Strictly speaking, I don't see how the OOC room is germane to the game. If anything, it probably detracts from the game in this way. As a new player, you have to just go in and start talking. Sometimes you get a response, and sometimes you have to take another approach. Perhaps you need to take a bolder action, or adjust your character's demeanor to get a response.
Once you do receive a response, you have to kind of go where the interaction leads you. A given session in the game will be a novel experience, sometimes more entertaining than others. As long as you always take this approach, the game will always be different.
Once you remove this element from the game, the game itself changes. It becomes repetitive like an mmo does. You meet in OOC, then decide what your character is going to do and who they are going to do it with. At that point you log in, perform the goal you had in mind, allowing you to easily filter out other players and events occurring in the game.
"I have gone in the INN, made an opening post and someone reacted. I have both times had some very good RP, and with others that I hadn't RPed with before. I also noticed that the overall quality of RP was better all around." -Yilth
I would suggest that attachment to OOC suggests a boredom with the game itself. Boredom with a game based solely on the imagination of the players, perhaps might mean that you aren't taking enough risks in character to spark your imagination.
crow wrote:Would you guys like a cane and a rocking chair on a porch to shoe kids off of? Geez it's depressing listening to selective memories in a tick glaze of nostalgia. All you're doing is telling everybody how terrible you think the game is now by comparing it to something that probably wasn't even real, that's not very helpful. Heck it's like listening to people go on about wow vanilla like it gave mind-blowing head. I might not have been here for the original tli (at least I don't remember it breaking open my screen in a burst of golden light like it apparently was supposed too) but i'm pretty sure the human mind works the same and it was nowhere near as jewel-encrusted as people remember it to be.
There's thing's about the game I'd like to see different. But the RP is still every bit as fun as it was when I joined up, as long as that holds true what else really matters?
Session Start: Thu Nov 29 18:34:45 2012
[18:34] <Desdaemona> Activity list (count of nicks): #The_Lonely_Inn (6), #TLI-arena (2), #TLI-town (2), #TLI-baths (1), #TLI-forest (2), #TLI-Magic (1), #TLI-Quest (1), #TLI-Temple (1), #TLI-Borderlands (1)
Session Start: Thu Nov 29 19:28:35 2012
[19:28] Session Ident: Desdaemona (Desdaemona@14055a93.6ca5ed96.184.107.imsk)
[19:28] <Desdaemona> Activity list (count of nicks): #The_Lonely_Inn (6), #TLI-arena (1), #TLI-town (1), #TLI-baths (3), #TLI-forest (6), #TLI-Magic (1), #TLI-Quest (2), #TLI-Temple (1), #TLI-Borderlands (3)
Session Start: Tue Dec 04 21:16:44 2012
[21:16] <Desdaemona> Activity list (count of nicks): #The_Lonely_Inn (10), #TLI-arena (3), #TLI-town (3), #TLI-baths (3), #TLI-forest (4), #TLI-Magic (2), #TLI-Quest (1), #TLI-Temple (2), #TLI-Borderlands (2)
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