Ages ago I was into Ultima Online RP third party servers. UO was a super simplistic engine to resolve things that wasn't just die rolls and was also not so dense you ended up needing WoW PvP skills or anything. It kind of just clicked nicely for the kind of RP I wanted to do.
I was reflecting today that I somehow had occur not once, but twice, a server doing a full wipe to rebuild the entire world from scratch, then pen all the players into one town and surrounding area to "Force everyone to RP to establish new lore", just to have everyone quit because that's boring before anyone could even see the world they painstakingly built.
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Electric Gremlin
in reply to Electric Gremlin • • •Like yeah someone makes that mistake once and doesn't course correct when people start getting bored of "I have access to one village with 6 buildings and a forest with boars in it, yawn" but twice?
and it's funny because that's the kind of behavior I'd have expected from the staff of a third server who took over someone's RP forum account and forced a "heel turn" into their mouth, then publicly announced "This server is for my husband and I, you are guests. If anyone outshines us, we will use our pen to dim your star. If you don't like it, leave", and everyone did; but it wasn't.
This entire ecosystem is wild lost lore at this point, isn't it?
Electric Gremlin
in reply to Electric Gremlin • • •I kind of wonder where that vibe lives anymore now. "FFXIV Roleplay" I guess.
...the "Emergent RP world from someone else's game, possibly in a private server" vibe, not the "I use my admin powers to write lore making you look bad because you're cooler than me" vibe. I know where that lives, and I stay away from it.
Audee Orca (AudioRCA)
in reply to Electric Gremlin • •Electric Gremlin
Unknown parent • • •"My house my rules" gets really, really weird when your "House" is digital, metaphorical, or social and its foundation consisting of interactions between people that isn't you.
For literal decades I've had this rubbing in my brain when people try to apply physical concepts to digital or social constructs. The idea that you can "own" an interaction and how the end result is usually destruction of any good that interaction is doing? That is one reason why.
Electric Gremlin
Unknown parent • • •