Nug

sure, yoppl and maly violated the lore. my argument is that the lore is so tenuous that nobody would have even noticed had flamboyant not made a huge deal out of it. not to mention that the pistol duel was part of a genuinely interesting storyline that did not include magical starcraft units. 

I have all the reason to believe that you wouldn't want the rules to be sacrosanct if your friend got banned for ERP. LoTC has always let rules take the backseat to allow interesting things to happen. when it doesn't, there's usually an ulterior motive that is not just "well the rules say this."

hey guys, aengudaemon lore here, ready to make sure that our fantasy server has fantasy stuff like fantasy is kept and wait we need to keep swords this is a medieval server but hey wait a second dont forget the fantasy portion lazere cannons dude hahahaha

@char-char~ i dont really understand the starcraft stuff but even if it is used as a tool for an interesting plot or w/e (even tho theres some many things that actually abide lore that could be used), theres always the possibility of it spreading into normal rp and becoming a way to pg and all that, ruining other rp experiences, kinda like how the magic guns spiralled out of control. even if the rp is isolated, there likely wouldve been backlash in a similar fashion.

Druidism is pretty easy to get as a halfling

weak skills dont fit protagonists

Imagine trying to play a protagonist on LOTC when you can play an epic farmer hobbit

^^ NA servers best servers.

classic scrubs

im more of a jg tryn guy

we don't use ban reports as it brings unnecessary flame wars, i hope you can understand sir

oh gee seannie you're real edgy right now xd

Shouldn't have made a status like this, gonna prevent a potential flame war so... yeh. :/

it's the "noise shading" part that gets me - you can deny someone for roleplaying a dog or a hypebeast, but if the rest of their application understands the lore and their skin looks like a bunch of random noise in the shape of an orc those two things don't cancel out. You can recommend someone a skin while still accepting them.

@monkeypoacherIf it's just the skin, that's generally what we do - We either put them on pending and ask them to change their skin, linking them to the skin archive or other free skin resources, or we accept them and message them about it.

i still think it's lame and should be reconsidered, there's no need to prolong the player actually getting to play the game after all the time spent applying, the skin """problem""" any new player might have should just be addressed afterward to make the process less complicated or just mentioned in the acceptance part

like who made this stuff up and why is it being defended so hard 😓

tbh i think ct shouldn't deny noise shaded skins as long as they fit the general theme of the server (medieval fantasy).. a lotta ppl on this server have some wacky skin shading but considering that not everyone is a skinner and not everyone wants to be a skinner its better to have a skin with wacky shading than no skin at all. at the end of the day this is a roleplay server and not a skinning competition

i stand with nug

Application standards are at some new low level right now, they have been much higher in the past. If you just read the exact guide above the application anyone can make one that gets accepted. If the skin is wrong, we have plenty in the Skin Archive, not what they are looking for in there? Then there always still is PMC and a dozen other sites. Besides they also can request custom-made skin for free to use on their application. You might say let them pass, but we as CT are the ones who get yelled at every time a somewhat bad skin is on the server. We must maintain the quality of roleplay on the server, as that is what LOTC presents themselves as, the highest quality RP, and with that for immersion comes skins. 

crazy nug

@Nug racist

#PointMissed

Burn filthy Chinese...

la ilaha il alah muhummadur rasul ulah

cos it means pig and its a piss take joke make fun of kind of thing

that proofs nothing, watch this https://gyazo.com/2d98448bc510b2e2470c7a2105a133a2

but nah im kidding sorry for posting that i guess

yeah you better be you furry hating scum

Aron stop it. THis is your only warning.

not even soz ether.

How dare you, that was funny XD

What Birb said.

Because snowflakery and player dislike of restrictions.

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.

naija

i have chosen wingdings, thank u all for ur input

french

oh wow

youre like 10???

genderbender...

^ what Disco said.

Back in the day, it could get seriously ugly with the sexism, racism, and homophobia I saw on this server. It’s not a coincidence that a lot of the “IC hate” was directed toward elves (who are often darker-skinned with a larger homosexual population than most of the human playerbase). A lot of the human playerbase back in the day OOCly flirted with some extremely toxic and harmful ideologies. I still remember people using swastika avatars here on the forums. A friend of mine who played a black woman character got bullied off the server for being black IC and OOC. There’s still some remnants of that floating around, although I will say I’ve seen a vast improvement in the way female and dark skinned characters are treated on the server.

You can’t look at that stuff and say “It’s all IC!”

People are very intimately tied to the characters they create and I would argue that every character is a manifestation of the player in some aspects. When you spend hours pretending to be a person, you’re naturally going to sympathize heavily with that character and that character is going to exhibit a lot of your natural behavior. 

I’m not saying that IC prejudices are wrong or bad. My current character, Tanith, is going through a big character arc where she’s trying to unlearn old prejudices and open her mind to different ways of life. 

It’s just that people who gleefully indulge in prejudicial and bigoted RP might be acting out some of their real life feelings in a “safe” environment free from IRL consequences. It has happened in the past and is still happening now, even though it’s gotten better.

Of course it’s going to seem like its OOC homophobia being projected into RP when u insist its “characters are a manifestation of people OOCly” as the only explanation as to why it’s being RP’d in the first place

It’s a lot easier to be less pressed about this stuff when u know how to separate OOC from RP and not misinterpret it as OOC because of the assumption that it is

Do high elven players OOCly enjoy torturing people or burning them in acid IRL? Do bandits OOCly enjoy mugging and robbing people IRL? 

Yes it’s a possibility that there are players who use RP to hide their OOC prejudices, and it’s even something I’ve mentioned many many months ago before this was even a concern. However, we shouldn’t be assuming every person who writes forum posts or goes on homophobic tangents or whatever in RP is just inserting their feelings into RP, because that’s how you REALLY start bringing OOC into RP, and it’s how every little minor inconvenience comes off as OOC actions. If there’s legitimate proof of someone who is being OOCly homophobic who is then projecting that into RP, bring it to staff and make a report. 

I intentionally play a character that’s racist, sexist, homophobic, you name it, because it opens up the door for a lot of potential character development and RP. This stuff isn’t inherently bad to RP, nor should people be expected to cater to the players who don’t enjoy this type of RP. 

the entire reason “rp =/= ooc” has become a saying is because people generally don’t separate their characters and themselves, lol. if I had a penny for every lotc character who’s a thinly-veiled author insert I could buy a sandwich

you don’t have to bend over backwards giving people the benefit of the doubt. this server is wish fulfillment for most of its players; people don’t play this server as some sort of detached philosophy experiment. if someone’s main character is a ripped punisher-looking crusader dude and they go around curbstomping dark elves, you don’t have to wring your hands and wonder “is this person just exploring the idea of committing a hate crime? do they enjoy curbstomping people IRL?” similarly, if someone makes a constant fuss about “egirls” and “simps” you don’t have to imagine a parallel reality where they have healthy beliefs about women and superimpose it on this one. you can take people at face value sometimes.

obviously people can play monstrous characters, villains, bigots, et cetera without being one of those things in real life. your character can have prejudices you don’t have. no one’s suggesting that killing someone in minecraft role-play makes you a killer in real life, but when you role-play the same themes over and over without really commenting on them it begins to reflect on your personality.

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Richard ain't a traitor, Arty, he just found the light. :D

Yeah those damn cultists. They'll be a huge threat in five months time!

#UndeadConfirmed

oh ok

Blame the team, yeaaaah.

a d/c'ing ahri who fought with me over mid that had '4000 ping' is someone i will blame m8, 3 deaths before 10 minutes is not mah fault

Nug you rascal!

omg nug be girfend of me pls?

I hate goddamn Heim.

i kinda just made some random clothes i'll send it to u on the forums later, it's only a sketch but i hope u like it !! :^o

Dwarves mayte, draw all the Dwarves and there amazing-ness

i'll try m8

Spicy it was indeed.

@D4NNA can we make it a tradition that every halfling village gets blown up a few weeks before map transition?

@NotEvilAtAllThat’s up to you guys lol

*le avatar change that

*I gusta

GEN ONE BEST GEN

yep

pm me pls

Sure

*Tuts at the superiority craving AT.*

No team > Everyone else

AT>VAT

I agree w/ Gronkk, cannot connect bra

Not everyone can connect to the server.

I connected earlier but Tythus took it down

"professional female gamer"

cringeworthy

she's going to call the cyber police on you okay

Kaceytron is the best troll, I love it.