FloatingFatMan

My personal definition of a RP Elitist. Someone who tries to teach new RPers the way the long established RP community works, and gets ignored, insulted and flamed by the new people as they can't stand to be told they're wrong.

In other words, there is no such thing as an RP Elitist. Instead you have decent RPers who are labelled as such by the newcomers who are trying to screw with the way things are.

Hmmm... Déja Vu!

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In the very least (if you'll permit a small venting of annoyances) they're still 'the invaders' - so to speak - here. Back in Earthen Ring there were far more of 'them' than 'us' in the end, and so the community became 'them' hounding 'us' for being elitist, rather than 'we' being frustrated at 'them' for being inconsequential, godmoding and omnipotent.
/whine off

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This has already happened to some of us.

Posted on behalf of Shadowe, who can't post from work!

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Wholehearted agreement. Now, as a dedicated GGer, I've no idea what it's currently like in PD, but at GG we get our share of tools, too. In fact we've recently gained three new RPers that I'm aware of, all of whom seem to persistently ignore our advice on 'RP etiquette' - including directing them to Zortel's thread here for that purpose.
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Now, anyone who's on the GGOOC chat channel will be aware of 'Tool' as one of them is affectionately known, and he's actually IMO the best of the bunch - he tries really hard to RP properly, and actually succeeds a fair bit, except for his distinct inability to use capital letters and punctuation, coupled with being a bit on the pushy side about getting himself involved in things.
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So, all in all, I'm hoping that they will learn from example, because babying them doesn't seem to work.


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Couldn't agree more. When I'm RPing, I'm there to enjoy myself, not get frustrated trying to teach some bonehead the ropes. They can either learn by observation (like I did), or go on ignore permanently.

I'd rather have some way of sending 50 volts through their mouse...

If you think about it, it's what little kids do. They see something new they don't understand, they poke it with a stick!

Nice post there Coile, thumbs up! Very good assessment of the griefers and semi-RPers!

As you say, the griefers CAN be ignored, albeit with some difficulty if they start power spamming, but the semi-RPers are another story altogether. We can try educating them I guess, sending them tells asking them to use OOC markers and suchlike, but at the end of the day it usually doesn't work. So you're left with the options of either trying to handle them IC, or ignoring them too; which will affect your immersion to varying levels.

Indeed! I one, you're in Paragon City and play a superhero! In the other, You're in a place called The Rogue Island and play a nasty piece of work! Totally unconnected!

Ahem.. I said "CoH is not an MMORPG". CoH = City of Heroes, not City of Villains!

Bet you 50k inf that you won't find it anywhere on any of the boxes!

Alas, CoH isn't actualy an MMORPG. If you check, the R is missing from the description...

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and no pets rule too.

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Why the face? Pets do little except cause more lag for people. 99% of people with them NEVER roleplay with them; so unless you are, why cause problems for other people?

It's things like this that put me off RPing in-game a long time ago, unfortunately. I still go in-game to RP, but not much anymore. Once, there was a time that I was there every night of the week.

Unfortunately, there's absolutely nothing that can be done. NCSoft won't spare us a GM to keep an eye on Pocket D and GG as the tools aren't technically doing anything wrong, other than being pillocks. All we can realisticly do, is put them on /ignore and try to disregard them being in your face and power spamming.

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The cemetary?

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Only if you finally killed Miss Ellie...

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I was wondering when you'd say that!

OK, I admit it.. Miss Ellie WAS a Mary Sue, deliberately too... but she's not anymore!!!

The cemetary?

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It's been nightly for as long as I can remember

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It used to be just once a week when I used to go to GG about 18 months back as Elektron Kid (long since deleted!), but if it's able to support nightly activity now, then kudos to the GG crowd!

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Sorry, but GG has been a daily event since it's very first meeting in 2005, as Zortel says. It's never been weekly.

You DO know that all that function does is make Windows return an earlier version number to the program in question, right? I've never seen it actually WORK either...

Ah, if you used auto-update, that only gets the ATI drivers from MS, which only have the most basic OpenGL functionality, which is what's causing your problem.

The 7.4 Catalysts from AMD will solve the problem.

Note: Release of the 7.5 Catalysts is due in the next few days.

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Playing CoH with the latest ATI drivers, the game seems far too bright to the point that I can’t play it. Also getting some curser issues, but I know that can be solved via compatibility cursor etc..

Anyone else have this brightness issue/know of a way of fixing it?


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What you describe is exactly what you get with the default Vista drivers, are you sure you have the latest ATI drivers for Vista installed? The XP ones WILL install on Vista, they just won't work right.

I recommend you check your download, uninstall, and reinstall them to be sure. If it helps, the latest drivers for vista can be found here (32 bit ones)

It'll never work... Similar things have been tried over the last couple of years...

I've always applied US law myself, when in pocket d, because DJ Zero is an American, so it's more likely he'll stick to laws he knows.

Not because he HAS too, but because he's an honest guy.

Indeed, as I understang the intent, Pocket D is MEANT to be crime free.

And I seriously doubt he'd condone the selling of alcohol to minors...

Well, if people are acting like idiots when RPing kids, react as a lot of adults would, and give the little buggers an IC spanking!

Does annoy me when kid characters are in PD though. For all it's in another dimension, it's a bar run by an American, and I VERY much doubt he allows kids into his club unless they're 21+!

As far as I know, the SG is pretty much defunct. I know the only one left who had invite rights has left the game recently, so might be an idea to start a new one if you're interested in the theme.

Well, you can change your forum name easily enough, in your "MyHome" control panel.

As to the SG, I must honestly admit to some surprise that you've had problems in-game. In the 2+ years I've been playing, I've never seen such an easy going and non-judgemental group of people. If you want to make such a group, be free and go ahead; but with such a name, don't be surprised if you get a lot of stick from the less mature players, and it's possible you may be fall foul of GM's with the name.

Still, I wish you the best of luck with your SG.