Promote Freedom Of Roleplay

[Lago 2569]

Allow me to clarify then.

 

Weird anime-inspired animal-human hybrid half-furries that exist for the sake of it out of the blue do not fit Mech Standard because they're A: new races and B: don't fit LotC in the slightest. If you personally go by anime-inspired stuff doesn't fit mech, you should be fine.

 

Look on the bright side: that's saving you a lot of stress and pain, because if we did let you play an animal-human hybrid half-furry that exists for the sake of it out of the blue (or if you found an IC route to becoming one which would not need lore) then three out of the six races would actively hunt you down and exterminate you as a dangerous abomination because they're roleplaying the attitudes of medieval people who live in a world as harsh as LotC correctly.

 

Remember what happened to the person who had a demon baby with the corrupted, genocidal ash wraiths actively attempting to wipe out all mortal civilisation? Then we've got a whole variety of undead, almost all of which want to kill you and make your corpse into a flesh puppet. We've got the Dread Knights who want to kill you or, if you're nice to them, bind your soul in place for a few years while your body rots to dust and you become one of them. Spectral creatures include Gravens, which will try to kill you, and Apparitions, which will kill you. Even the Kharajyr used to eat dead humans and elves. Even the seemingly harmless stone golems can develop a flaw that leads to the deliberate misinterpretation of commands with a view to causing grievous bodily harm to their masters. The first golem of Aegis became an undead minion.

 

The supernatural is dangerous. If you randomly turn up with cat ears and six tails, don't expect the people of Thales to treat you as an everyday citizen.

[mmat 7461]

If some people on the server were content with their actual lives I don't even think we would have this problem. All this contrived lore and edgy stuff is purely designed to make certain individuals feel like something special in game to compensate, rather than just having a good time with the pre-provided races, which are more than enough.

 

Its an issue with certain members of the community wanting to feel important and stand out from the crowd and feel special in Minecraft because they dont irl, leading them to play these ridiculous custom lore races. Don't get me wrong, it was good when the undead were around because they were pretty unique and people knew this. but now theres so many dumb stupid races that are played and its absurd. If this is not true then people will play the 4 available races and assist the regular RP of the whole server rather than making characters purely for their own pleasure, which is what this is.

 

Purge lore and let lore makers write lore, this will hopefully solve the problem.

 

and stop trying to throw people off on who you are its irritating.

[Cyndikate 2302]

Allow me to clarify then.

 

 

The supernatural is dangerous. If you randomly turn up with cat ears and six tails, don't expect the people of Thales to treat you as an everyday citizen.

 

Hence why the playerbase is capable of regulating it themselves, which they have done for the past year and a half when the term "edgy." came about. Ban them from your cities, towns, whatever. You see them powergame? Just PVP them. That's the purpose of PVP default. If players eventually figure out that their characters aren't acceptable, they'll stop playing it.

[Tsuyose 3283]

 

Hence why the playerbase is capable of regulating it themselves, which they have done for the past year and a half when the term "edgy." came about. Ban them from your cities, towns, whatever. You see them powergame? Just PVP them. That's the purpose of PVP default. If players eventually figure out that their characters aren't acceptable, they'll stop playing it.

 

I thought PVP default was to rid the long waiting times for RP fighting. And haven't you posted before trying to put some rules and restrictions on things, such as magic and villainous roleplay? You've only been acting this way ever since your lore was denied.

[Crayfishchris 748]

In my opinion, this topic is unnecessary and just causes unneeded drama.

 

Is the system perfect? No, but it's a whole lot better than it could be if we went to the extremes that Benbo mentioned.

[KarmaPhantasm 3]

What is the problem with bringing new RP as a normal race/already existing being?

We all know how creative we all are, but without a necessary form of order to keep people from roleplaying planets, all we get is disorder and confusion. 

 

Freedom of roleplay may sound good at first, but you have to remember, you are not in control of this server and it's rules. You have to abide by the standard that has been set and follow it. Don't like waiting for lore to be approved or denied? Deal with it. It's necessary to weed out people who wish to become super saiyans and walk around with t-rex skins prepared to walk the dinosaur. 

 

Freedom of roleplay on this server means to RP situations, not weird slime races/reptilian mammals. Everything is done by giving what you got. Your home was burnt down? RP a traumatic child with issues. Parents eaten by orcs? Oh look, you are racist to orcs! What I am getting at here is, try and find a form of RP that is both away from the norm and cliche, and try and think outside the box while keeping it within lore standards. 

 

You just dont go out to shoot people just cause the law says you can't, just to spice your life up. Right?

Work with what ya got.

[Lago 2569]

 

Hence why the playerbase is capable of regulating it themselves, which they have done for the past year and a half when the term "edgy." came about. Ban them from your cities, towns, whatever. You see them powergame? Just PVP them. That's the purpose of PVP default. If players eventually figure out that their characters aren't acceptable, they'll stop playing it.

 

Actually, they tend to complain on the forums that their RP is being restricted.

[ACanadianCraft (Nate) 682]

 

Hence why the playerbase is capable of regulating it themselves, which they have done for the past year and a half when the term "edgy." came about. Ban them from your cities, towns, whatever. You see them powergame? Just PVP them. That's the purpose of PVP default. If players eventually figure out that their characters aren't acceptable, they'll stop playing it.

 

In that vein, your future character would stumble aimlessly into Oren, and be excecuted.

Nobody will want to RP with the outlawed demon creature that is your character.

You will figure out that character is unacceptable and stop playing it.

Then you will either complain how LoTC is no longer fun,

or complain that you can't create a character to have fun on.

Which you have been doing for a while.

[Ford 1990]

 

In that vein, your future character would stumble aimlessly into Oren, and be excecuted.

Nobody will want to RP with the outlawed demon creature that is your character.

You will figure out that character is unacceptable and stop playing it.

Then you will either complain how LoTC is no longer fun,

or complain that you can't create a character to have fun on.

Which you have been doing for a while.

 

[KarmaPhantasm 3]

What I also want to note, if you wish to play someone new and hip and that makes you special at the same time, play a majorly deformed person. Nothing in the lore says stuff about how bad birth defects can be if your mother gave birth to you on a magical toadstool of deformity. 

 

You get interesting RP once you get your character out there meeting new people.

 

There is also nothing about how you can't dress up as said creatures and running around in a costume. Say you saw it as a dream once, but don't take it to far. Take it to far and you may need an app for a form of madness if they are still doing that. 

 

And if you try to pick apart how I said you may need an app just to become a form of mad, don't. It's there for documentation and to hold back all of the people who wish to be as edgy as the spoon I use to eat my pudding. 

 

All in all, just say you saw a beautiful figure in your dream and you wish it were real and breed with it to create different offspring then be sent to a jail and/or beaten for heresy and madness. 

[Cyndikate 2302]

Actually, they tend to complain on the forums that their RP is being restricted.

 

If it's ICly, then it's not a big deal. Deal with it ICly.

[drfate786 1639]

The problem is that most staff members are obviously corrupt and BIAS and will DENY lore from people they don't like ((Me included)) , and the whole idea for writing lore for everything is idiotic at best, we are a ROLEPLAYING server, what happens in RP should be dealt in RP. 

 

We need to cut the whole lore nonsense and let people RP what they want, aslong as its not OP or Metagaming we should not be running off defaming them and their RP styles.

 

Point is, rather then needing lore, deal whit it IN RP.

[Praetor 1548]

Benboboy pretty much explained it. 

 

Nearly every single game, book, movie has restrictions. In general, you don't have a a world with absolute free rein because you need to retain a certain amount of structure. You want your story world to follow a certain set of guidelines and without these it would probably turn into a chaotic shithole full of everything and anything that people can think up. Nothing makes sense, there is no more structure and it just crumbles into a pit of crazy ideas. 

 

As I said at the beginning of this post, Benboboy said it how it is.

[Tethras 278]

I think the video below illustrates what happens when you give people too much freedom. People get "creative".

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

[Emp 209]

Individual expression is important, sure, but that doesn't mean that every form of expression is acceptable or constructive.

 

The utopia that you propose is built upon the fulfillment and advancement of one's self; LotC is a platform for collaborative writing, wherein it is actually the sacrificing of one's pride that allows for the most enjoyable, dynamic events to unfold.

Your proposed response to what you see as restrictions is to effectively impose your own restrictions upon others. Where there are rules that govern everybody equally, you would have everyone conform to the rules of some unregulated magic that you've conjured up for your own satisfaction.

 

If you aren't satisfied roleplaying anything that already exists on the server, perhaps there are some personal issues you need to address.

 

Edit: It's also interesting that, in your last status, you were complaining about lack of regulation in the way of villainous characters. You complained about a need for quality RP - something that doesn't happen when people approach RP seeking self-satisfaction. This is also sought in what some refer to as 'special snowflake' lore and RP - the kind that you propose herein.