Elysienne

I've just thought of a better simile than the one I used before.

It's like getting a cold-call. It's not a massive inconvenience, and it doesn't take long to deal with, but if you get two, three cold calls in one day, you can start to get pretty vexed about the whole thing. I see them much like blind invites. I don't know the person on the other end of the tell or invite, and I'm generally only interested in teaming with people I like and have fun with.

I'm here to have fun, after all.

I don't particularly like random groups, so I tend to avoid them. I've had good experiences with them in the past, but it's just a dynamic I don't particularly enjoy. So having these "cold-call" interruptions detracts from my enjoyment. Not a lot, but it can mount up if I'm unlucky.

tl;dr version - yes, more flagging and variables would be good because I'm a cantankerous old killjoy.

Because the last thing anyone wants is a gooseberry.

Surely you've had a situation like this in real life - you and... lets say some work friends are discussing going out to have a couple of drinks after shift is over, and some guy you don't really know passing by goes "Oh, hey, that sounds like a good idea, I'll come with!"

It's not the be-all and end-all of social faux pas, but it really isn't very polite at all to impose on people in that fashion.

Sounds like he just took you at your word to me.

Yes please let us reduce all game mechanics and rigidly push them into all aspects of RP.


Sometimes, folks, you just need to turn a bit of a blind eye, or deaf ear, or laminated tongue.

"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star you'll get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
- Terry Pratchett, Wee Free Men

Thinking of driving, I got the best piece of advice in the world from my brother when I began to learn how to drive.

"Always treat everyone on the road as if they're short-sighted psychopaths with no regard for their own wellbeing."

Having checked over your characters in your sig, OP, I have absolutely no idea who you were in the Dauntless Reverie.
That may well be a failing on my part.
But if you don't like referring to forums, then the DR definitely wasn't for you. We run plots that go over a period of weeks, and even months in some cases, and that kind of thing CAN'T be expressed by in-game word-of-mouth, no matter how much our members try to. And we do! Whenever someone says "what's going on?" we try to give a synopsis in IC format, but it's HARD. Much easier to read a thread on a board.

There are systems in place to help people get involved. And we appreciate that real life concerns come first, but...

The realistic thing is, if people aren't going to be around more often than a second-stringer, that's how they'll be treated. Included in the story, but not one to be relied on because people'll never know when the character'll be around. Can't hang a major plot-point on someone who may not be there.

Welcome!

Never expect anyone to take anything seriously, ever.

Or possibly, if you need that much help to stay interested in the game, it's time to move on. I mean, since beta is a loooooong time, dude. Maybe you're burned out on CoAitchVee.

Oh, thanks! I'm sure I'll be able to get a quid or two for them on the open market.

I believe this all falls into the category of "muscle memory." Even if someone knows that they don't have to use double-parenthesis on teams, but are used to doing so, they may have to exert conscious effort not to encapsulate their OOC comments with the brackets because they're so used to it.

The same with the asterisks - not everyone comes from a CoH background. For example, text-based chat programmes sometimes have no /e function. They may be very used to different forms of expression.

Take, for example, the "tells" people display in poker, or nervous habits like tugging at earlobes and so forth. Muscle memory actions are unconscious, ingrained.

And really, typing shift-9-9 is much more simple than learning where the bite of the clutch on your car is.
Or an even better example... if you have good grammar, try not to capitalise every new sentence as you write a 2000 word essay. Some things just become ingrained by habit.

Pretentious threats!

Oooh, sexy hearsay.

Well, I guess we'll never know what really happened in the end. So many conflicting stories, so much general apathy from the forums...

Why IS this in the forums, by the way? Seems like a private disagreement to me.

Not necessarily. It could be seen as a direct allegory for heroin addicts searching for new injection sites.

Or perhaps I'm being a little dark there.

My thoughts can be summed up thusly;

ELECTRICITY CONTROL! *Explodes in glee*

Pepperidge farm remembers.


And still hasn't forgiven you.

Sid!

... *Grudgingly hands over the Medic badge.*