We're so worried to make "quality roleplay" (gotta love all these definitions about quality rp, pls post more) that we forgot it's about having fun and distract a little bit from real life. It became a pain in the ass for every player to play, you are constantly observed and judged on how some damn chat lines are written. With this i don't want to defend those who shoot on sight or after they write just two random sentences. Whose fault is it? It's our fault, we did not care about it when it was necessary, i'd say the community has half of the blame of this situation. I don't care if you don't agree with it, i joined almost two years ago and nothing improved since then, what the hell did i expect?
There is so much moaning in-game for every little thing that almost every attempt to bring different roleplays ends like shit. I wonder if there is still somebody who cares about having fun without killing X player for Y lame reason ("i shot him cuz he killed my mEmBeRs omg admon!1!1"). Let's be honest, only the 2% of the players roleplays those kills, the rest is busy doing "pew pew pew, /p haha i killed u xDDD" or posting "HELL OF A NIGHT #PROVOKETORANDOMMAFIAGROUP" on forums. A small percentage cares about roleplays which do not end up in shootouts and obviously will never emerge.
Honestly speaking if all what you care about is showing your e-penis size you better put a finger up your ass, it might give you more pleasure and less headache to those looking for entertainment.
You're right, tho its nothing new, its been that way since 2008 really.
And lets be honest here, everyone's talking about "pew pew, e-penis he killed my member rp" being a main problem and bitching about it, when in fact that's the least of
everyone elses problem when it comes to their own roleplay.What does the pew pew between Gvardia and Soprano(putting a side all the bad shizzle connected with it, which Mark already explained in his reply), has to do with you and your roleplay?
You're a farmer from Flint, yet you can't roleplay correctly because of a pew pew happening somewhere else?
Or you're a hot dog seller infront of City Hall, but fuck it, you can't roleplay because there's a pew pew in San Fierro?
These are all bullshit excuses people who moans about roleplay, while in fact they're the ones, let me rephrase it, the
only ones on which their roleplay depends.
I do not roleplay the same way with every person, I adjust to their way of roleplaying/interaction.
I wont roleplay with HR or a hot dog seller, the same way I interact with Sopranos in this example. Because HR and a Hot Dog seller, wont just find a reason to pull out a gun, and hence I wont be doing the same. And don't get me wrong, its legit from Sopranos to do so, knowing our current situation.
I like to response on a good roleplay, with good roleplay, its the least I can do when I see someones effort in it. Why would I wanna destroy that for someone else, even if he's an enemy?
Lets do a poll, who here died from Me if he wasn't a cop chasing me and trying to kil lme, or a member of a enemy faction in war with my faction also threatening me or my member?
I'll tell you, no one, and I can vouch for 99 percent of my members same.
So the point is, "the quality of roleplay" is your own responsibility, don't blame others for it, yet either set an example by your roleplaying, or simply roleplay with people you judge will response in a positive way to your roleplay, or do both.
There's more "DMing" on more strict and serious roleplay servers, then on Argonath(as in you don't spam /me before opening fire, yet you can hit your enemy without interaction prior to it, if you have a
valid roleplay reason.), on Argonath you gotta write a letter of intentions to your enemy 5 hours prior, and a shitload of useless /me spams and warnings, just so you can setup an "ambush" for a criminal leader of the enemies faction, who's then "surprised" when you try assassinate him.
If Ballas went on a surprised 'drive-by' shooting in Ganton on GSF, they would all get banned even if they have a valid roleplay reason, because "they didn't warn them enough" or had "enough interaction prior" .
And drive-by shooting, is one of the main symbols of every gang in the US, that happens non stop.
Is that quality Roleplay? Is that realistic enough? No its just birocracry bullshit that you gotta do, so some admins wont bust your balls because he, or the people in charge of roleplay policy, dont know jack shit about criminal roleplay.
You can say, 'that can be abused for a constant pew pew wars', yes it can, but its up to those groups to determent are they gonna be into that style, or put their interaction on a more sophisticated level. And they gonna be judged by people based on that. Because like I explained, those wars
don't really influence you and your roleplay.
Point is, if they wanna be those kind of groups, then admins should only check in on how valid is the roleplay reason, and potential cheating/hacking/aimboting and returning after death, that's about it.
Because they wont in anyway affect the rest of the server, except with bigger player count, because lets face it, when its peace time, everyone suddenly gets bored, and our player count goes down to shit.
And you? You can roleplay the same way you were roleplaying before, during, and after those wars, so anyone talking how he can't rp because of it, is just bullshiting really.
I haven't reported someone for DMing in over 2 years now I think, the last time I remember, was I reported some random cop who went killing people just for fun like he's on Paruni.
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