Eat_Me

When you can. We will be here waiting.

My Fire/EM Blaster Tanked Reichsman. Next.

I could just be a magnet for it but it happens to me all the freakin' time.

Warning: One very long run on sentence.

I'm in PI and someone starts sending me tells about their character OOC'ly out of no where or I am running missions or I am out and about and I meet a random supposed RP'er who makes their introduction and then demands that I go and read their VirtueVerse Page and spends the rest of the time OOC'ly telling me all about their character and how awesome they are in tells, or I get bored and go to the D to watch the spectacle and without fail someone who is doing /e walllean off in a corner starts sending me tells about their character and how great they are, or I join an alleged RP SG and without fail the forums will have one or two people who are always posting RP stories and the RP SG itself will be dead because everyone is off chatting in the OOC channel on their alts, generally about how great their RP character that they now never play in this large SG of other people who now never RP with each other except in the bi-monthly SG meeting, or people who join a random PuG team and spend the entire time in brackets because their character "Wouldn't really be here doing this right now" and then proceed to spend the entire Task Force talking about how great their character is OOC'ly.

So yes, I see it a lot. But then again I also try to RP with everyone I meet and do not wall myself into only interacting with an RP/Coalition community. While I appreciate that the gated community approach is a great way to vet problem players I still strongly believe that as a RP Server we should roleplay... as a server. If we are a RP community then we should roleplay as a community, not as lots of little equal but separate communities.

1: Don't try to bring them to justice or enter into a battle about morality or good vs evil. Instead try to learn more about the character, ask questions and attempt to solicit growth by treating them as a person instead of a monster in the hope that the next RP encounter they have with someone is less one dimensional and god moddy.

2: Find a common goal or excuse to be working together no matter how flimsy and set up the scene for a little begrudged and resented team work. Marvel and DC did it all the time and hell we have the RWZ and Cim both working under amazingly flimsy motivations.

3: Treat them like an AE&D LARP'er trapped in the fantasy who has gone completely crazy and play along with it.

4: Kick from team

5: Kick from team

6: See 1.

7 & 8: Explain that most everything in game has already been given an IC justification. If you read the original CoX comics they spend a great deal of time trying to work the tram, Inspirations, Enhancements, the War Walls, the old side kick system and all the other various game mechanics are referenced in some way as to attempt to make sense of them in a comic book universe. So there is already precedent for it. Hopefully this would encourage both of them to go off and read the CoX Comics and for Player 7 to be a little more open minded and accepting and for player 8 to find less jarring and immersion breaking ways of going about their goal.

Even with all the problem players, the team can now at least function and interact with one another in character even if they are not referencing the game content such as fighting Hero 1 for the 100th time and perhaps if the experience is enjoyable for all of them then they may learn something about their own characters or be nudged into growing as RP'ers.

It is a snarky response but its also entirely serious. I and almost everyone I know is drowning in a sea of invites right now to the point that its "Oh drat, there is a Khan forming and an Apex and Tin Mage but I'm on the last mission of this Lady Grey with the same people I just did an ITF with and I wish I could stop what we are doing to go join the Mothership raid but everyone is tired of the Lady Grey and its it over with" that was just last night at 1am EST, let alone prime time.

The username does provide its fair share of lulz.