AGiantPie

Being a peasant in a village.

Bandits will always have behavioral incentives that are misaligned with quality roleplay and an enjoyable experience for the victim. The pvrpose of banditry in both RP and OOC is to rob people (and sometimes just to mess w/ ppl in a power fantasy fashion, which is way worse), and the most effective method of robbing people is with quick, short, and simple emotes that progresses to combat as quickly as possible. Also, bandits have no reason to let their victims live. Killing their victims gives bandits material (items) and immaterial (not getting reported) gain, so bandits always stand to benefit by killing their victims instead of having mercy. Given this reality, anyone with half a brain must accept the FACT that the majority of bandit RP is always going to be about killing and robbing the victims in as efficient a manner as possible, aka “minas or die” PVP banditry.

If you think bandit RP will ever be anything other than “minas or die,” you live in a fantasy world – go play an elf.

Edit: And tbf to bandits, on the flipside, there’s every material incentive for the victim of a banditry scenario to meta stall, to be uncooperative, and to call GMs at the slightest potential rules infraction by the bandits. When people stand to gain by behaving badly they tend to behave badly, which is why victims of bandits tend to be toxic assholes.

The long story short is that banditry is always going to lead to anger, toxicity, community resentment, and bad RP. Up to the server to decide whether that’s worth it or not.

1 minute ago, Callum1307 said:

These are all examples of Public information...

No they aren’t. Accounts are private, and it’s up to the owner of the account to decide whether their account should be given out publicly. I believe the LotC policy is that staff members have to have a public discord by which players can contact them, but everyone has the right to privacy in regards to who can contact them on their accounts.

And like I said above, I might have an account on the internet somewhere that isn’t super private, but no one here on LOTC would know about that account under normal circumstances. I wouldn’t expect anyone from LOTC to contact me on that account. If you go snoop out that account and share it around with other people on LOTC w/o my permission you’ve absolutely violated my privacy.

2 minutes ago, Callum1307 said:

Want me to rephrase it? Account information is private information. If you share someone’s account information without their permission that violates rule 1.3. Ask Pun before giving out her snapchat to someone, especially someone who wants to harass her. This goes for discord accounts, mineman accounts, snapchat accounts, everything.

Someone’s non-LOTC affiliated snapchat account information is 100% private information. Just because some LOTCers know Pun’s snapchat username doesn’t mean it’s ok to give it out to people who want to harass her lol.

Edit: And for the record, if you go out on the internet and find other non-LOTC related accounts used by the same person and share them with LOTCers, that is also doxxing. You can often find someone’s information on the internet if you go searching hard enough, but that doesn’t mean it’s ok to share that information with people.

22 minutes ago, ThatWeirdGirl said:

 

 

Still have LT approval afaik.

Post at the end of the thread suggests otherwise.

I’ve found that you have to use their ENTIRE ign now. So for me you’d have to do /msg AGiantPie not /msg AGiant

Big ups to rping without lore team approval. Just do it.

Alberic sighs with relief upon hearing of the schism’s mending.

Destroy the tree
Hold down Left Button

time to enforce a rule that everyone can only play one character.

Hmm..... halfling activity shoots up when they live with another group instead of stuck in a Cloud Temple enclave. I wonder what’s up with that.

1 minute ago, BigMacMoMo said:

Thanks! I would really appreciate that and the discord link!

Ok, sent you the invite link in Pms. My IGN is AGiantPie so PM me when you’re online and I’ll show you where to go to find Leuven.

1 minute ago, BigMacMoMo said:

I would be more than happy to join the County of Leuven! I’ve always been interested in rural rp. How do I get started?

I can log on in just a few minutes (gotta load the dishwasher first) and show you where Leuven is if you’d like to come find the place in RP.

I can also send you the discord link if you’d prefer to join that first.

I’m just a serf myself, so to actually join officially you’ll have to speak to Count Conrad (cruzazul), but I’m sure my liege lord would be happy to have another honest laborer.

What sort of community/rp are you looking to get into? A lot easier to give recommendations if we know you’re looking for something specific. 

In any case I’d invite you to join the County of Leuven if you’re interested in a rural farm town lifestyle.

Alberic smiles at the poem.

Thanks for crediting me!

On 2/2/2019 at 3:20 PM, xxx said:

 

Do you run around LoTC completely at random? If given the option to, do you prefer to go as far away from everyone else as possible?

 

Map size is important but it’s deceptive how it’s important. You can easily get decentralized RP on a much smaller map than we have if it’s not planned very well, and you’d need an absolutely tiny map with a single RP hub for RP to be completely centralized. Athera would have been a total mess if it wasn’t for the king’s road, with people shuffling at random between the dozens of plots. 

 

The next map is smaller, but it’s going to feel more difficult to find RP because there are no direct routes to capitals, no racial spawns, and because every active settlement gets land instead of every nation. The biggest problem with RP and maps on this server is that the staff makes dumb design decisions without input, like deciding how big the cloud temple plot is going to be before they’ve put the capital of Oren on the board. 

That’s a general theorem. ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL, a larger map means less RP density. Of course, there’s more to the map than just the size, and what REALLY matters is the ‘settled/inhabited area’ and not the total area, but bad map design and placing plots far away from each other does spread out RP by increasing the travel times etc to go between plots.

Basic physics tells us...

Increased volume → lower density. 

Therefore...
Bigger map → lower population density → less rp.

Constantine makes a note to visit this new store!

Captain Constantine of the Adrian Guard declares a state of emergency.

“Nice deals!” says Prince-Prior Alderman Captain Constantine, making a mental note to visit this new shop the next time he’s in the capital.

I’m glad to see the administration working to improve communication and transparency, in particular by informing the community about their decisions/reasoning behind their decisions and the internal processes and estimates by which the team operate. Highlighting important feedback threads from the past month and the official responses is also very nice to see. Good post.

3 hours ago, Ajax said:

But for a Duke to serve as a vassal of a Duke violates the nature of the lord and vassal agreement.

 

Constantine rubs his head in confusion.

Prince-Prior Alderman Captain Constantine smiles as he reads the first issue of People’s Magazine.