Anonymous RP

[Palma]

+1

Cause the exact same thing was annoying me. People seem to be limited to only create chars to argue for their irl feelings and defend their sides.

Don't think much can be done here though. The hatred is there what can we do xD

[Johnny Walac]

Don't think much can be done here though.

Add the rule that you gotta sign an RP post with one of your chars. Then he gotta take responsibility for what he writes on he RP forum and the possible consequences in-game.

[H-Wood]

Don't think much can be done here though.

Add the rule that you gotta sign an RP post with one of your chars. Then he gotta take responsibility for what he writes on he RP forum and the possible consequences in-game.

Won't people just start saying the same thing and just sign it with their neutral cook or tinker? Does it matter if it is Bart the vendor or one of your merchants?

If you respond on a religion topic, sign it with your religion char. But this has a lot of loop wholes, I know.

[Xerxes]

Oh, just made a new thread @Ideas section.
Wasnt aware of this thread. Anyways, I am getting fed up with you all who are posting there under aliases/posting your bullshit.

We aren't kindergarden, act accordingly.

[Johnny Walac]

Don't think much can be done here though.

Add the rule that you gotta sign an RP post with one of your chars. Then he gotta take responsibility for what he writes on he RP forum and the possible consequences in-game.

Won't people just start saying the same thing and just sign it with their neutral cook or tinker? Does it matter if it is Bart the vendor or one of your merchants?

If you respond on a religion topic, sign it with your religion char. But this has a lot of loop wholes, I know.

If your neutral cook or tinker starts talking shit about my religion, it gives me a reason to kill you in-game and make your life miserable. For example.

[H-Wood]

Yeah, I know, but just pointing out that this might not fix everything. For example I could just create a char to bash on forums. (If you don't have 5 char yet.) Anyway, I think it's a good start, so I think your idea should be come a forum rule. And then lets see how the Rp'ing goes.

[Darian Darkmind]

Don't think much can be done here though.

Add the rule that you gotta sign an RP post with one of your chars. Then he gotta take responsibility for what he writes on he RP forum and the possible consequences in-game.

Sadly that takes away one aspect of RP as well, especially for us Tekstone members who are supposed to spread propaganda, lies and cause mistrust. If an evil and known murderer makes a post telling how he saw Law kill the banker, it doesn't matter even if what he says is true since if it's signed by a known murderer, no one has reasons to believe him. However, as it is clear people can't use the fake names and make fake posts with the necessary responsibility, losing it is a sacrifice we must make.

H-Wood, that is a problem. However, again in RP world why would a random neutral tinker who lives in Britain know so well what happens in other towns? Why does he care? If someone makes a random Joe and use him to post dirt and shit on forums, he need to be punished, because obviously the random Joe can't know anything he is talking about.

If only people would use more common sense. Propaganda and fake posts aren't a bad thing, it's only a bad thing when people react to them by trolling and replying with more fake-posts. Which is why I think it is better if, instead of being forced to sign your post with true name, only the original poster can use a fake-name. However, even the original poster must keep in mind that what he writes is not written by an imaginary character or an NPC, but by one of his actual characters. To ensure this stays in mind, maybe the real name must even be added in brackets so that we players and the Staff know who is the real person behind the propaganda post. Everyone else replying must stay IC and either use a real character name or simply not post. This still allows propaganda posts and hopefully makes the replies worth reading instead of turning to pure trolling.

And example:

"Horrible news everyone! Just an hour ago I witnessed as Zarek Sanches of Law was having a drink with suspicious looking men in Britain inn. I stayed in distance and listened. What I heard was something I wasn't prepared for. The men were obviously disguised Tekstone priests and Zarek knew them! He even called them brothers! Together they plotted the demise of Britain and Zarek gave them information about the guards and the weak spots in defence. Obviously the man still has close ties to his old religion, to Cult of Tekstone. Beware people of Britain!

Julian, the scribe
(Darian Darkmind)"

Maybe above posts would make people act more mature and reply to it with real posts instead of trolling. Especially if they aren't allowed to use fake-names.

[Monad]

I rather not add any rules to restrict RP, but expect those responsible to take a lesson and learn from this.

If it doesn't help the real character name in brackets requirement could be a good idea.

[Glarundis]

i understand these concerns, but that's what you get with
1-the internet (everyone is simultaneously real and fake)
2-rpg forums (you don't have to show up ig to actually be there. if we had these conversations ig, either you're someone real or you're not there)

i don't agree with the real name in brackets, just let's all assume that some of our chars that would reply couldn't possibly know who was the original poster. they could suspect, just like you can suspect of someone ig under incognito, but they couldn't know.

these issues with identity are things that will never work as they should, even the whole rule about your char seeing someone he never met ig, but it is established that he knows who he is, etc etc..it's not perfect, far from it, but it's what we have.

but it's a fact that atm we have too much of this. if we were a strict hardcore rp shard i think very very very few of us would have more than 30 piety lol

we change too much our char's opinions, but it's inevitable..we are the same person, and we are using 5 different chars...come on, maybe this even triggers multiple personality IG if you get too hardcore into it


let's just allow ourselves to post anonymously, but that someone who posted anonymously is someone that no one can know, but it is someone real (and it has to be one of our chars)

[Ivan]

How about not to simply make this kind of useless propaganda on forums, ofc with pictures of law killing something etc. Could be posted since there is nothing else to say about that thing then. And anonymity is required for example robber chars to sell or buy from forum so it cannot be realy removed.

So basicaly if you want play propaganda game, get IG pictures of the things happening and dont go bad mouthing without a proof on forums creating useless debate and arguments... It wont grow your e-peen to say on forum "laws suck they kill imperial merchants for no reason" Take a pic and post it and let it act as evidence and word of laws doings. Law cant argue with a proof of their wrong doings. Same thing way around, though tekstone and imperial dont need to say anything else "we do this to quietly defeat the enemy support".