Policy

[Cofiliano]

Alright, lets talk about rules and roleplay policy, and lets discuss a plan on what kind of a server we all want to play at.


We were on a path to become a medium roleplay server, and I personally think we should continue in that direction.


This means we need the rules on roleplay interactions to be written down to the smallest detail, covering all sorts of interaction, and how to properly do it, so people wouldn't get banned because some admin or even a HQ member made up a rule in a second, and didn't inform the rest of the Community.


What's your suggestions, ideas, opinions?


Lets be constructive here, no arguments and shit, just post what rules should apply in roleplay interaction, and how do you imagine the level of roleplay?

[TiMoN]

Stop nerfing shit because "it's too profitable", players need money for RP, let them have it.

[jovanca]

Start off by stopping every ongoing war on the server. At least untill community heals from it's current state

[Salmonella]

Not another one of these topics please...

The rules are crystal clear as they are and so is our vision.

[Cofiliano]

Salmonella, most of the  criminal factions on Argonath disagree with you(check previous topics such as Unite), if you didn't noticed people stopped playing because of this(again they all pointed this out), so a wide consensus  over this has to be made, and if accepted by the HQ, fulfilled.

So its not "one of these topics", yet lets be constructive and see how can we improve the current situation.

Start off by stopping every ongoing war on the server. At least untill community heals from it's current state

You really think wars are the problems? There's an average of 10 players online.
Read my reply here about it: http://www.argonathrpg.eu/index.php?topic=117361.msg1845721#msg1845721

[Salmonella]

People here have 'disagreed' for the last 4 years or so. That doesn't make this 1337th topic any different from the last one. It'll be the same 'discussion' here as it was in ''Unite''.

People stopped playing for a lot of reasons. This new management will also mean more will leave but I've already seen multiple people come back because of it as well.

Just go with the flow, no need for more useless bickering and dick-measuring.

[Cofiliano]

If you think its useless, then don't participate in the topic Salmonella, no one's holding you here.

The tittle is clear, policy as in roleplay policy, what is allowed and what's not allowed to perform in a roleplay, and what can get you punished.

From small things such as, are we allowed to use /area without writting /me's  and some hi tech tracking system, and so on.

[Stivi]

If the owner/HQ wants to have a RP server, we must have no metagaming rule. Before you try and tell me to jog on, understand that if my group for example chooses not to metagame, that doesn't stop the rest of the players from metagaming and that ruins the fun for both of us. Take Teddy as an example, he didn't mix his fbi director char and his criminal one, because if he did he would immediatly know who is a criminal and what they do.

And I mean we already have "no powergaming" in Argonath, it's a rule, but not the same terms/wording. But it is essentially the same thing. What wrong would "no metagame" bring?

[Salmonella]

Common sense truly is lacking in many.

We'll see 10 pages further what happened.

[Cofiliano]

Common sense truly is lacking in many.

We'll see 10 pages further what happened.

Then;

If you think its useless, then don't participate in the topic Salmonella, no one's holding you here.

Please keep this a constructive topic, in the interests of all of us.

[Gandalf]

Skills beat rules.

[Cofiliano]

And sometimes bans beat skills.

[.James]

''no metagaming''
 "no powergaming"

[Cofiliano]

I agree with Stivi about metagaming and powergaming, but not sure how the rest of the people feels about it.

[SkyHawk]

As for the constructive rules of roleplay, if you really want to move the server towards a more structured style of roleplay, you need to recognize the fact that powergaming and metagaming exist. I think, implementing rules that prevent people from using these to their advantage is the only way to deal with this, ignoring it is not a solution.