It's generally what RPers use to indicate OOC ( Out of Character ).
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Generally, it would denote a comment that was Out Of Character, or OOC.
Of course, I could be wrong. But, I'm 95% certain that would be it.
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Ok, that's what I figured, thanks guys. Makes sense since I've been playing on Virtue lately.
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Yeah, that is pretty commonly seen on ((Virtue))
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Never understood why a hero would say ((Hello.))
How is greeting someone new to a team not in character? I could understand if it was a villain, however.
Seems like people use the double parens more often than they speak in-character. Maybe the double parens should be used when actually IN character?
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Never understood why a hero would say ((Hello.))
How is greeting someone new to a team not in character? I could understand if it was a villain, however.
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I'm one of those people who will do ((Heya)), or ((Hello)) when greeting someone who's just joined a pick-up group. Why? What's so out-of-character about saying hi?
Speech pattern.
My Rad/Rad corruptor is a clunky 1950s robot. A nuclear-powered robot maid. Think Jetsons meets Fallout. She "speaks" in clicks, whirrs, and advertising jingles.
If I think the team will be cool with it, I sometimes do that on pick-up groups. Most folks find it funny.
But if I think it'd freak out other folks, then I don't do it. Or, y'know, sometimes I'm tired and just don't wanna bother. Typing ((Hi)) is easier than something like: "-klik- Hello, hello, hello! Welcome, sir/madam/other! Coffee, tea, or chemical treatments?"
Okay, so if I'm not RPing - why do I still use the parenthesis?
Habit. Simple as that. I'm used to putting all my out-of-character statements in brackets. I do it without thinking, because I've been doing it in this game for five years. I don't RP all the time, but I RP most of the time and all my in-game friends are RPers. So I'm conditioned to act in a certain way.
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Seems like people use the double parens more often than they speak in-character. Maybe the double parens should be used when actually IN character?
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No, it prob'ly seems that way to you...but I assume you're only running into RPers on pick-up groups. Many RPers are like me - if the team isn't RP-centric, we won't RP either.
But if you have a team of mostly RPers, or entirely RPers, trust me, things are pretty different. I've got chat logs from TFs with my SG that don't have a single line of parenthetical out-of-character dialogue in team chat.
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I have a character whose entirely mute* so anything I would actually say would have to be an out of character comment. 
* ..and an albino, and a little person, and a reanimated corpse with a taste for human flesh. He has a lot of issues.
Would it be possible for me to witness at least one fully RP'd scanner/paper mission? Maybe just heroside because villain RP would just scare me. Then again, I have been freaked out under the Atlas Park statue after walking in on a scripted modern re-inactment of The ILLIAD.
I have a friend of mine whom I've watched become twisted into an avid RP'er (I'll never try to surprise him in his base again) but I don't know any of his friends well enough to ask if I could experience them acting in character.
I'd imagine my presence would taint their experience unless I was to portray some kind of ghost or extra dimensional being sent to observe.
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Some people also use parentheses (double or single, I've seen both) preceded by "oO" to represent thought bubbles they want to transmit to the whole team, for whatever reason. The two Os are supposed to be the little bubbles leading up to the big thought bubble. Example:
oO(Wow, what a weird costume that guy has!)
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Now that is an extreme case of RP'ing. Pretty clever though.
- Im Not Talking Fast, You're Just Listening Slow.
- To Each His Own
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Would it be possible for me to witness at least one fully RP'd scanner/paper mission? Maybe just heroside because villain RP would just scare me. Then again, I have been freaked out under the Atlas Park statue after walking in on a scripted modern re-inactment of The ILLIAD.
I have a friend of mine whom I've watched become twisted into an avid RP'er (I'll never try to surprise him in his base again) but I don't know any of his friends well enough to ask if I could experience them acting in character.
I'd imagine my presence would taint their experience unless I was to portray some kind of ghost or extra dimensional being sent to observe.
"To Wentworth's for a stealth IO! Awayyyyy!" (gets on a Sit 'n Spin)
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Well, I've seen quite a few PuGs essentially become RP teams, especially on Virtue. There's enough critical mass of RPers on the server that even PuGs can end up mostly made up of RPers.
The problem for me, though - and I do think this is a problem... well, let's say that it's an eight-man team and five people are RPing.
I always worry that the other three are left out, or somehow alienated. Maybe I'm weird like that, but I dunno.
If you play on Virtue during prime-time hours (US evenings), I'd offer to put together a small team with folks from my SG and show you how it goes, as it were... if not, I'm sure other players would be willing to do similar.
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Red: Battery Acid, Obsolete, Bugfix
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Some people also use parentheses (double or single, I've seen both) preceded by "oO" to represent thought bubbles they want to transmit to the whole team, for whatever reason. The two Os are supposed to be the little bubbles leading up to the big thought bubble. Example:
oO(Wow, what a weird costume that guy has!)
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I'm more used to seeing it with a period for a third bubble:
[Team] Acyl: . o O ( I'm thinking like this, see? )
Haven't encountered that much in MMOs, but it's a reasonably common trick on MUDs, IRC, and other text-based roleplay environments.
@Acyl
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Blue: Realpolitik, Leading Lady, Glass Lass, Superball, Alec Kazam
Red: Battery Acid, Obsolete, Bugfix
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Some people also use parentheses (double or single, I've seen both) preceded by "oO" to represent thought bubbles they want to transmit to the whole team, for whatever reason. The two Os are supposed to be the little bubbles leading up to the big thought bubble. Example:
oO(Wow, what a weird costume that guy has!)
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I'm more used to seeing it with a period for a third bubble:
[Team] Acyl: . o O ( I'm thinking like this, see? )
Haven't encountered that much in MMOs, but it's a reasonably common trick on MUDs, IRC, and other text-based roleplay environments.
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we just use the /e for thought bubbles as it gives the dots and a large thought bubble while placing the text in white in the chat window.
For example : /e Wow, what a weird costume that guy has!
it works great to see what people are thinking
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I raised a scrapper to 50 on Virtue just before Issue 9. During that time, I ran with two different groups of players (from two SGs). Maybe they could just smell "non-RPer" on me because I never used parentheses when directing an actual question to a team member. I think they just went into non RP mode to accommodate me.
I'd like to see a campy dialog similar to that parodied by the "villain" in the "I'm a Hero and I'm a Villain" ad campain introducing the Mac version of CoX.
The closest thing to a RP experience I've had was when some nut kept TPing me into mobs. He said it was in his character's nature to do so. Fortunately, I switched on the "prompt for teleport" feature after the sixth time. I then extracted sweet barb wired revenge on him before leaving the team and trading in my scrapper for a shiny new bots/dark MM. "...an outward expression of my inner evil." Muahahahahahahaa! (cough)
Does the "average" role playing team get dramatic like the signature heroes at the beginning of the LRsf, or do role players keep it simple; only going as far as to refer to the other team mates by their character names? Do they keep it within the confines of the environment or are they conscious of a world outside of their own pages... er... digital 3D realm?
Do they actually know of Captain Dynamic's "Awesome Button?"
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I have a friend of mine whom I've watched become twisted into an avid RP'er (I'll never try to surprise him in his base again) but I don't know any of his friends well enough to ask if I could experience them acting in character.
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[Team] Clave Dark 5: . o O;
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The closest thing to a RP experience I've had was when some nut kept TPing me into mobs. He said it was in his character's nature to do so. Fortunately, I switched on the "prompt for teleport" feature after the sixth time.
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I have a toon named Narcolepsy. I RPed that toon a few times. Just think what people thought when I played him like his name...Was funny stuff.
I am an Rper, when I ACTUALLY RP I use the Parentheses for OOC, but if I am in a team or an area where Rp doesn't happen... WHY use it? Four extra charaters to type and it boggles my mind. I go 'Welcome in!' not '((Welcome in!))'. It seems like more work, especially since, when I look on a team and half - or more - of the team arn't RPers (Or I get no indication of the being so VIA Bio). I can't wrap my head around the 'reflex' thing or 'habit' because if it was a real habit you'd be doing it in RP too!
I dunno, maybe I'm just weird...
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Personally, i find it a lot easier to bind shift+enter to START with ((OOC)). It's much easier than remembering to close my parenthesis at the end of my OOC speech. And i get annoyed when i don't close parenthesis and have to do it on the next line (OCD here!) and that annoys me even more. Binding shift+enter to ((OOC)) is just so much easier, for me. 
Left over MUD/MUSH convention. When I am speaking IC, it is evident. In a modern setting game, it may not be evident when I am not unless I make an explicit reference to the game mechanic, but just as I dislike emoticons (weak substitute for clarity in writing) so do I dislike (()) and similar notions.
So if I am in an RP frame of mind I just spend an extra second or two being careful of my typing and "voice".
My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She IS an AoE.
When playing, I often see some people use 2 sets of parenthesis between their chat. For example, here is a sample text.
((My dog and I went to the park))
Im presuming it has something to do with RP but Im not entirely sure. Anyone know what this really means?
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