Roleplay, Plots and the World.

You know, with a Praetorian threat on the horizon, it's likely there will be something to grow naturally out of that, and I'd rather something was grown naturally than forced.

To be fair Pious and/or Pistol do seem to keep missing my posts pointing out Techs Arachnos Attack plot was a wide scale thing done well.

Using the Rikti again wouldn't work in my opinion, not until we have some more news from the Devs on how that fronts progressing.

I'll second or third of whatever just letting the Devs and our own preatorian stories develop for now, a new event should grow out of that.

After all, a tad greedy to want another wide scale plot when Open Season is still ongoing :P

I am rather saddened that it has come to this, but to continue to enjoy role playing in the Unionverse, I shall have to tailor my view of it and remove those characters and players I can simply not get along with.


From this point on they no longer exist in my, or my characters view of the Unionverse.

Whoa.

Overdramatic, much?

The way I read this is "I can't get my own way, so I'm gonna just ignore anyone and anything I want, rather than taking part in the shared world that hundreds of people have tried to work together to roleplay in". (I'm willing to concede that you probably don't intend it to come off that way, but that's how it seems to me.)

Absolutely nobody has said that you can't play whatever character you want. Absolutely nobody has said that you can't play whatever plot you want. The only argument anyone's made that you seem to take exception to is that you created a plotline that was too public and too extreme to not generate a widescale response that we, your fellow players, cannot adequately represent in-game.

You want to play an abused character, do so. More power to you. That's your choice. Some people will avoid that character because of their own preferences, but as long as you make no attempt to force interaction, nobody will actually care.

You want to have villains plot to blow up a school, kindergarten, nursery, maternity ward, do so. More power to you. That's your choice. Some people will avoid the plot because of their own preferences, but as long as you either don't let it actually happen, or leave it as a mystery for people to solve (rather than a big red target pointing at someone else's characters) who are interested in doing so in your plotline, nobody will actually care.

You want to have some villainous organisation secretly kidnap homeless people off the streets, or enhance existing villain groups, or anything you like that's hidden from the public eye, do so. More power to you. That's your choice. Some people will avoid the plot because of their own preferences, others because they don't want to get involved, but as long as you make no attempt to push people into interacting with your plotline, nobody will actually care.

Some people will avoid RPing with you (generic "you") because they think your plots and characters are lame. Others will avoid RPing with you because they find your plots and characters offensive. Others will avoid RPing with you because they think you have failed to grasp some fundamental aspect of roleplaying in a shared world. But there will be others who don't believe any of those things, and will be happy to get involved.

The whole point of this thread has been to point out that there has to be give and take in the plots we choose to throw at the world, and the one conclusion that everyone seems to have reached is that as long as the plot would not essentially guarantee action on the part of NPCs who are outside player control, you can pretty much get away with anything you want.

And (again, how I'm reading things) because the overall consensus is that a plotline you chose to implement crossed that line, you are announcing (unnecessarily) that you intend to ignore certain (unnamed) people and plotlines. You could have just done it.