An Essay on LOTC and my Time On It

[Kvasir 1121]

Introduction:

        Let us start out by me introducing myself, I am Kvasir, OilMoney, or Stickly, I have been a member on and off, banned and unbanned, for about a year. I have been here since late Athera, I started out playing a dwarf, Skippy369 had helped me with my application and my first day I popped on, and joined a warclaim. It was so fun, I was in their team speak and had not been on for even an hour yet when it started, they told me to run to the front of the battle lines and run around. It was a very fun time... Later I started playing different character, Ingwe Minyatur and a joke character I called Jeebus Crust, I had fun playing these characters even if I was not the best roleplayer, eventually I was banned for a bit and came back on the first day of Vailor. I started off by playing as a human named Arthur Avalon, I even got one of my friends to join and play a family member, I met so many great human players and became friends with them, eventually I started playing the son of my first Vailor character who got into a lot of trouble. This change from playing an adult to playing a child will lead us into our next section.

 

Childhood:

       In the real world childhood is a bridge to being a teenager and then being an adult. In LOTC this progression is not much different, you go from being a new roleplayer to being one who is good at roleplay. In most of my time on Vailor, I played children, mostly because most of the people who played children were nice. I still remember the Archer Twins, when Moochael played one, and even the children of the dwarven island above their main area. I had a lot of fun playing as a child in this, mostly because I could do so much and have so much fun without people yelling at me too much for being edgy, though you still get the occasional 'edgy child!' character. Playing children was a gap for me where my roleplay style fluctuated and the quality of my roleplay form each character. At this time I was not at all a good roleplayer, but not a terrible one. My first venture into true child to adulthood roleplay was on a character named Lylion Khainlen. I played him a lot, I have so many great memories of Roleplaying on him, from his childhood friends, the keep he worked at as a young child, the ghost who introduced him to the ideals of sadism. When my character grew up, my roleplay had not changed much, I would mostly approach RP with the attitude of OOC first, and then RP for the jokes. This changed when I started to play a different character, his name was Vergilius. Vergilius was a Half-Elf, I created him to get the feel of playing a child character, the problem with this character was that I had somehow made a character that was not as annoying as my others. I added a learning disability onto him at one point, where he did not speak correctly. I roleplayed with my old characters child, Krytonya007, it was great RP and introduced me to other people, namely Matheu3, and the Kha players. To be honest I do not believe that I would be a good RP'r if I was not looked down upon, Matheu3 would refuse to Roleplay with until I would take the roleplay seriously. By december I was going to make a change to how I played, I was going to actually take roleplay seriously.

 

The New Year.

        This new year has been a time of change for me, I began playing a character named Ambriel. She was a cult leader and this was my first delve into actually playing a real crazy person, she believed she was the messenger of a fake god named 'Aym' on this character I actually gathered members and had fun roleplay, having contact and roleplay with Orenian church really added to the drama of this group. I went back and attempted to convert my old characters daughter once more, this constant link with the same people made me feel weird so after finishing off the Aym Cult, I went to find new friends. The time from February onward is quite fuzzy in my memory and I do not remember a lot, though I do know soon I began to roleplay with a nice guy named Eldermonk, we had an agreement that if I were to get banned two times in our meeting, I would be disowned on my character. He really tried to help me out on my attitude and roleplay, I thank him for his efforts but I could not stay this way for long, this caused me to be banned for a week, and then for a month. I left lotc in this time and found myself angry at people, I lashed out at Eldermonk and broke our ties. This is where I came back and played a Halfling, and then an Augur and Adunian, in other words the present. On my time in Vailor, I had grown cozy and happy with it, hating it for its flaws and loving it for its slight charm, I have only recently looked back on Vailor thought about why I loved it, it was because it wax the map I grew as a roleplayer and a person who had a drive to write and create stories, even if striving to become better at writing was my downfall in the end, where I no longer roleplayed for fun, but to create a detailed story that would enjoyable to read. It was no longer a fun thing to roleplay, but a chore when I would put detail and effort in, and get barely any effort out. This new map really killed my drive for the server, I do not know why but I have a feeling that this map will be the end of something that was once great; Roleplay. Axios is a beautiful map but I feel if we keep looking at the community, looking at the map, looking at our server funds, looking at who is staff, and PvP, we will lose what we once had way back. I myself am not a nice person, nor a good roleplayer but I do know this, if we stay nice to eachother, come together as a community, not argue about staff, and focus on the same thing we came to the server for, LoTC can once again be what it was before, a true and functioning roleplay server.

[Caranthir_ 2533]

Words of wisdom indeed, however it is communicated the point is still valid and stands.

[Weabootrash 412]

ok, smh you said that we should harass new players that are bad at RP so that they can become better

 

but i mean toxicity on lotc is impossible to fix I can give my reasons but I mean they're a bit ovious

[Nekkore 641]

Was interesting to read

[Moochael 730]

I wasnt really expecting much when I clicked on this, but it depicts a pretty good message. I agree with you 100% kvasir

[garentoft 9265]

Interesting.

[Fireheart 2777]

I give this essay a B+

[Kvasir 1121]

10 minutes ago, Weabootrash said:

ok, smh you said that we should harass new players that are bad at RP so that they can become better

 

but i mean toxicity on lotc is impossible to fix I can give my reasons but I mean they're a bit ovious

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.
- Sophia Bush

 

 My point of view is, that being told how to do something is one thing, actually putting it into effect is another, being fed information is one way of teaching, another is teaching by experience. 

[sean66 272]

Toxicity is horrible, but sadly it's a precedent I doubt we'll see changed. Some people just like to bring down others, which makes others lash out to bring down others or to emulate negative folks as they see it the norm. People form their cliques, and work as a furious hivemind over all issues and meld into one melting pot of acidic toxicity. The examples of all of this is in abundance by just looking to some of the more well known players that still live by reputations established about them years ago that they can't shake off. The first week of a new player joining their usually let into the gossip of LOTC, and who is 'truly' a bad person, by that clique's or server community's definition, and such and such. Roleplay falters as a result as it just divides the community and just snuffs the fun of LOTC out of it all. Roleplay is such a foreign concept to some truly the more this wall is built up in the community.

 

Toxicity is apart of what LOTC is now, and I doubt the people within the community will make the change to change that fact.

[Weabootrash 412]

Just now, Kvasir said:

My point of view is, that being told how to do something is one thing, actually putting it into effect is another, being fed information is one way of teaching, another is teaching by experience. 

i guess so, only way to see change is from staff, saying to be nice wont change anything tbh

 

maybe make some kind of suggestion to the staff members or some ****, idk

[Moochael 730]

I mean toxicity is inevitable in such a large community.......... But we can do stuff to help, I guess?

[Man of Respect 5471]

Toxicity won't stop if you ban the players that do it, but, instead, a re-education of behaviours and manners would work.

[Enlightenment 2300]

If only Ketchen was free.

[Pando_ 446]

Good shet dawg

[zaezae 1098]

54 minutes ago, Man of respect said:

Toxicity won't stop if you ban the players that do it, but, instead, a re-education of behaviours and manners would work.

 

That wouldn't work. Neither will work, but both are effective, and both should be done. I want people banned when they start being asses until people get sick of it and reconsider their actions.

 

I bet you get an hour ban every time you be a **** and people be like "Woah sir, calm myself.