A wild Parnys appears!
Pialia wrote:
Some of the best RP I ever had, was emoting various gestures in an effort to ICly communicate around a language barrier. Something that would be done in RL too. But -cannot- be done in SK.
This is what is known in role playing circles as a "gimmick" and isn't exactly deep storytelling. It might be fun, but if you spend most of your time trying to communicate to other people and that's the depth of your role playing, your character might as well not exist. No one's going to remember how much fun it was that your character tried to tell them to get lost with a complex emote. And they're probably going to be a big ol' bad of dorks and kill you, too.
Pialia wrote:
I see only three ends to this debate. Either something gets changed, and I invite friends and vote and maybe even donate if I can.... Or I get fed up and leave, or staff get fed up and ban me. And I'm willing to risk my ability to play here over the furthering of proper RP.
Brotip: One of the worst ways to try to get something changed in a game like this is to threaten to quit. The imms quite literally could not care less even if they tried about one person leaving when their membership is almost entirely "seasoned vets" that use YIM like cabal chat and have a phobia of being considered a nub in a new game.
(Please, people, spare me the "I don't use YIM all the time" posts that inevitably like to follow a blanket statement that MOST PEOPLE DO.)
Pialia wrote:
Yes. It was also horrid on a MUD I came from, where people once emoted speaking with a race that -couldn't- speak. They disabled freeform emotes -entirely- to prevent abuse, except for people that proved themselves good roleplayers. As it is, I'm being forced to learn languages I otherwise wouldn't, so I could see someone -tap their chin-. This is simply ridiculous.
Could you tell us what game this is? I love being congratulated for good arpeez. Please tell me that there's a player-run group that hands out little golden star stickers so you can be considered good role players.
Pialia wrote:
As for pemote... it's a possessive emote, that uses a single apostrophe. ' and " are separate characters regardless of font.
Well I thin- I USE PEMOTES ALL THE TIME
SK is "where tactics and roleplaying collide" and a change like this is going to have so little effect on the PKing end it would probably take years to be added if it were even considered at all. Ask for a skill to be nerfed then make a character specifically designed to abusing that skill and it might cut the time down to a few months. Then delete and pretend the character was worthwhile.
That's how we do it in SK Town.
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