monkeypoacher

It took two months for this new metagaming policy to devolve into ppl sharing vaguely incriminating chatlogs to try and get their friends banned - which is, admittedly, an impressive streak for the Lord of the Craft. I don't see the point of these stupid bans for metaplay at all. Metagaming does damage in roleplay and should be redressed in roleplay. If someone metagames to win a war you should hit their realm capital with a meteor. If someone metagames to make their character the King said character should asphyxiate on a big chicken leg while his Courtiers stand around unwilling to save him. Et cetera. Et cetera. You could probably even make these into interesting and thematically relevant RP scenarios, but various small misfortunes should happen to people who metagame and are caught; an inexorable idiot chaos factor that counteracts any advantages they might have. For a bunch of roleplayers you guys are surprisingly allergic to a simple "yes, and." Everything has to be taken out of character, rules-lawyered, argued about, and heckin updooted on the forums. I have no idea if the ban is deserved in specific because there's a preamble on "Roleplay Leaders and their Expectations;" My eyes glaze over at the unnecessarily formal definitions of 'metaplay,' 'roleplay leader,' etc. and this prevents me from actually reading what the rules are. But apparently no one has thought to simply remove misbehaving nation leaders from their ill-gotten gains with countervailing bullshit RP, or to deal with the alleged roleplay terrorists and the nations harboring them in the sphere where they actually exist, which is Aevos. Instead we need to ban people the Admins don't like, then listen to them bow and scrape to get unbanned, the exact same thing we've been doing for 10 years to no positive effect. Give it a try. The next time you catch someone skirting the boundaries of acceptable roleplay, kill their character in an interesting and story-advancing way.

If you want to get rid of metagaming you have to get rid of the OOC mechanics man. I do not have any sympathy for The Nation Leader, and I am in no way saying that it's justifiable to cheat, but c'mon. If way to survive is to pass a bunch of bullshit activity checks and pay a certain number of minas to the Cloud Temple every month, you're selecting for the people who can pass the activity checks and get the minas, and punishing anyone who can detach themselves from the game and make a fun decision that compromises those two objectives. Metagaming is always going to be the optimal way to get 10,000 minas or 40% activity or a warclaim W. It will never be easier to roleplay it, and you cannot make it easier. Lord of the Craft should not have meta-objectives. Activity checks and taxes fundamentally defy the basic idea behind LoTC -- that everyone's stupid Minecraft ocs and plotlines have a place and a right to exist. The same goes for absurdly punitive warclaim terms & costs. You should be allowed to make sub-optimal use of your resources. You should be allowed to take up space, build something ugly, wear a stupid skin, do a little failrp. You should be allowed to upset the lore a little bit and make new stuff. Otherwise the metagamers win. And they will keep winning, because they are definitionally better at premium minecraft roleplay than you are.

why does it bother you that people hoard rare magick items? when you aren't 10 years deep into playing minecraft exclusively as a text-based MUD, the basic loop of the game is collecting more items to upgrade your enchanted tools to collect more items. this is a part of most other roleplaying games, even pen-and-paper ones.

we're playing minecraft

"is golemancy a feat or a magic" is the exact sort of bureaucratic non-issue that the lore team is paid in Tythus, LTD. Scrip ($LOTC) to adjudicate -- and here the players are, trying to do it for free.

forgot it's RP default now lol. 11 years later and a big W for the villain application team you might as well just shut the server down before going back to defender default. proves that we're just ping ponging back and forth and all that matters is forum rep you make complaining about meaningless changes i propose a compromise that will make both parties' experience worse: add a very simple ttrpg combat system (SPECIAL stats you assign on persona creation, dice rolls for attacks/blocks/dodges/magic casts). not mandatory (if both players agree an action can be done without a roll) except to break stalemates/arguments about HEMA minutiae. integrate it with pvp. every click a dice roll modified by your strength/dexterity and your opponent's agility. end "skill" based pvp/crp and its inevitable corrosive influence on collaborative storytelling - usher in a new age of random creativity-provoking bullshit.

the need to make this thread for attention says more than anything in this thread amazon basics brand house flay obsessed w clipping footage of hapless roleplayers getting clicked to death

once i put a bunch of oblivion guard npcs in someone's fort and built a ladder during a raid and got banned for exactly the same term as someone who spent the past 2 years falsely accusing a guy of being a pedophile. feels good man

From a pure marketing standpoint I cannot imagine advertising to the intersection of minecraft and d&d/fantasy roleplaying (both demos that skew younger and more likely to be LGBTQ+ accepting) and deciding to keep the gate for people who can tolerate simulated discrimination against gay characters. It doesn't make sense from the top down.

TO THE ALSTION PRETENDER, KING OF AAUN (HUMILIATED BY ADRIA), DUKE OF VIENNE (CONQUERED BY ADRIA), COUNT OF WHITESPIRE (RAIDED WITH IMPUNITY BY ADRIANS), ET CETERA, ET CETERA, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RABBLE OF ORENIAN RUMP STATES: Heed that we, the Adrian people, know the true purpose of your overtures, and know your true nature. You are a lamprey, fetid spawn of the lowest brackish pond, whose sucking mouthparts cling with vain hope and desperate ardor to the Hanseatic ox. Your substance is Canonist blood. Your edicts have no power, and your pathetic gyrations do not warrant the notice of my proud nephew. I treat with you now: Heed that our people have not seen the passage of one generation since your Court plotted to murder my brother, the Duke's father, and install a Montelliano traitor in violation of our laws and traditions. In defense of this pathetic and fruitless plot, your armies arrived in our city and were slaughtered. Your armies fought us on the fields outside Minitz, and were slaughtered. Your armies fought to defend the walls of their forlorn, rat-infested capital, and there, too, they were slaughtered. Be it that the turning of fortune's wheel sees you in Whitespire and us in a camp - if your last hope is to beg us for aid, your days will not be long. This rebellion may fail, but so will you. Your fickle, grasping assortment of self-styled knights and minor lordlings will desert you. Your covenanters will turn against you in jealous anger to seize the barren crofts and despoiled villages of the Midlands for themselves. And you, worm, will return to where you belong. If you would like to avert this fate, you have one course of action. Cede the lands to the west and north of Whitespire and accept our claim as the House of Sarkozic to the Kingdom of Oren. We will treat you as vassals more kindly than your predecessors treated us, and you will be at liberty to rule your irrelevant state as you see fit. Pay us homage, and we will forgive the many crimes you have committed against our people. Until then, writhe. Pavel Sarkozic

"For the afflicted, the poor, the Law. For the prince and the prelate, our prayers." Pavel raised his quartz spectacles back over his eyes, shielding them from another reading of the obsequious missive.