[MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

[msew]

At 20:56 02/27/2001 +0000, Marian Griffith wrote:

>>> If you do not affect people in the game world then you get the
>>> epidemic that exists in online games: the paladin grouping with
>>> CLEARLY not paladin ideal-esque people and the age old excuse: "I
>>> am converting them to be good."  or "I need to be with them so I
>>> can make certain they don't do something REALLY evil."

> Actually, that is an example of poor roleplaying, not of poor games.

right but unless it is enforced some how in the game you will ALWAYS
have the masses that defect from the RP type world :(

and when I am playing the ultra evil death lord of DOOM or the angelic
angel of LIGHT and I am in my role and I am immersed and I have my
followers screaming my name in pure glory!!!

and boom along comes boffo and bubba in their clearly not RP correct
group and that just ruins it for me in a massively huge and complete
way.

And when your group of RPers are doing their thing and the non RPers
are just being total wankers it just ruins it.

Player policing just never seems to work for this.  It seems the best
option left is in game restrictions on the classes/skillsets that are
clearly opposites in religion/faction/?race?/<varName>.

*ponder ponder*

msew

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