Starcomet1 Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 (edited) I enjoy being used as a hostage for kidnapping/ransom style rps. Of course I will not do so willingly! That breaks the whole idea of what it means to do a hostage rp and I will always resist any player that tries to rob me or kidnap me unless they have a gun out and I do not. However, I believe there should be little issue with OOC talk being used to advertise the availability of one being free to engage in such an rp. It is NOT FailRP! FailRP would be a player running around screaming IC that they want someone to come and kidnap them. FAILRP would be letting someone rob you despite you having a gun and they do not. At best OOC hostage advertising could be construed as metagaming since it is using OOC knowledge for an rp, but that is a minor issue since it is an example of positive metagming since no rp would be happening when this OOC advert when out and the would be kidnapper would still need to find and engage in a proper rp with the would be hostage. But nothing specifically in the rules says this cannot be done and I suggest allowing it to be done as long as the parties involved are not related and it is clearly a proper rp. Also, people metagame a lot and I saw a government employee state OOC that they are bored and want someone to commit a crime which is also technically metagaming. Instead, I suggest the server try to crack down on truer instances of FAILRP and slight racist harrassment. Such as, arresting a black civilian in a store doing a robbery despite clearly not being a robber and the actual robber hiding in a closet in the store and even when the actual robber was found, both characters were still sent to jail...yes this happened to me on the first day and I felt like a black guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or another instance where I got harrassed for "loitering" again as a black civilian character despite the fact we have ninja girls and deadpool loitering near the spawnpoint for hours without anyone harassing them. Edited November 20, 2022 by Starcomet1 grammar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosophy Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) Honestly these are very minor issues and micro-managing every little rule broken that are only punishable by a verbal warning would not benefit the server. Imagine if every minor ooc infracture resulted in a roof teleport and a verbal. Teleporting people removes them from any rp situation they are involved in and would not be productive. Edited November 24, 2022 by Philosophy 1 I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. Speaking as an expert, I know that ninety- nine out of a hundred of your race were strongly against the killing of witches when that foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics in the long ago. And I know that even to-day, after ages of transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. And yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them killed. Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise--perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it--and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end. Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race--the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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