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Let me tell you 1 thing guys, as long as there are rewarding scripts, not only by money but by also fun side, all scripts no matter they re marked as "abusable" or not; will be abused. Whole Argonath IV:MP Players want only these 2 things. More Scripts more abuse, its not that people wants to use scripts to earn money, do bad things to others; they're using these because they want to have fun and yea some money would be good near it, but not really important.
- Question is why do they only use these scripts?
Well its obvious, because most of them dont know how to roleplay or they think roleplaying is done by script supports.
This is pretty wrong, but you cant expect these new players to learn roleplaying by theirself when they re covered by scripts. They want to have fun, they want money and some of them just wants to learn what Argonath IV:MP by scripts, provide to the players.
What I see from this script pointing and your comments, its clearly understood that like cophunting wasnt enough, some other features especially attracting cophunters and people like this type causes this abuses. Script's and its scripter's fault(there is no offense, dont just search for it or change it and understand by different way.) is, offering this script into public, to that public which there are both experienced rpers and people that never heard of rp[In this case this also falls against to argo vision therefore they cant provide a feature to only experienced players]. But this must be only feature to the experienced because new ones dont know how to act with the presence of the script. Meanwhile experienced rpers know how to roleplay already and this must be a feature to create an RP easier, but once you add unexperienced ones, even 1 only, can cause roleplay to be demolished by that single 1 guy's behavior. But this is not his mistake, he doesnt know how to roleplay and needs to be taught; who wishes to learn by time will learn it already, or he ll simply as you guys say only take advantage of it without fun and get its money support or whatever it gives. Why he denies to join properly is because he doesnt know how to have fun of it, or he simply wants to make money.
Now money, first of all, removal of money is what I was thinking to suggest around 1 year ago, but I have never done that because I noticed that most of people are seeking to earn money(You know how people try it to: some really works, some just abuses scripts or people, and someother just attempt to earn money by multiaccounting). The reason these people stand in server is because of it. And these people Im talking about mostly dont know what rping is or how to commit it.
In this case there is a question, instead of removal of money which is equal: Does ArgonathRPG IV:MP want new players no matter if they know or dont know RPing?
If Answer is yes: Money cant be removed, money is the factor and the challenge[just like achievements in games which its objective is to have more time playing it] on the server. And new players[most of new ones] are only looking for it. You earn money, you buy cars, businesses and houses, what new players see is that. When I first join to a server in a game, what I look at first is what server provides you, then I pick one of servers and if there is none I give more chance to current options I have and if it doesnt suit me, I simply delete that game. Money is one which has huge offerings in this server just like IRL. People say this server is not based on money but on rping, well I think its based on both of them. You dont trust me? Then ask what you lose when the money is removed, only rp remains. And what happens if only rp remains?
If answer is no: And money gets removed, server wont attract people that doesnt know rp, well mostly. And imagine a Chinese server you try to play in, you dont know chinese and you try to play in there, will you stand there for more than 2 or 3 hours? Mostly no, but well personality matters but by rper count we can count this as generally No.
Rping is the same thing, you gotta learn rping but for that, you also need something to rely on in case you cant learn rping because without enjoying, learning sucks for most[eh, we re here to play n have fun not only to learn] and in this case money and the luxury life is what people seek in this server. You wont get any of these players and one even who has no idea about rping wont even have a chance to learn rping because while learning rping wihch is not happening in 1 day, this unexperienced player needs something to discover , to waste time on. You only get experienced rpers if you remove money and since we know there arent much IV:MPers who knows rping, ArgonathRPG IV:MP wont have much players without money, or maybe it will have but this time people will act like its a freeroam server and ArgonathRPG in IV:MP list will be categorized as freeroam server and since other servers have freeroam commands, they will prefer to go there.
Therefore removal of money unless trusting to that little chance, is an impossible option and will cause an extreme decrease of number of newcomers and yea, then you know what happens, not much players only regulars, maybe 1 or 2 newcomers who tries to learn the game.
About Scripts, well scripts are here to be abused[as I mentioned at top], removal of money will decrease people who abuses this for money but ppl still will not be rping and try to find a way to have fun in it. Even if you remove money you'll still have lots of ppl you'll complain about.
Scriptless world or only scriptless world for newcomers and some challenge like earning money is the only solution to have both new players and attempts to learn rp, because when you give an omelette[script/fun] to player, he wont try to make his own omelette[script/fun] by using eggs[rp]. But ofc scripts are fun so and has new features and a game which keeps renewing itself by having new scripts in it causes players to stay more in that game. BUT Scriptless world for newcomers is against to Argo Vision. So yea good luck with this problems. But the things you suggest wont be a solution, you ll still complain about em, Im sorry. ^.^
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