[MUD-Dev] Re: Re[2]: "Advanced" use of virtual worlds?

[Travis Casey]

On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:19, rayzam wrote:
> From: "Travis Casey" <efindel at earthlink.net>

>> Now, I agree that roleplayers are not "more advanced" -- they're
>> just playing the game in a different way.  However, I don't see
>> how roleplaying, in and of itself, denies someone any interaction
>> with other people.

> Travis isn't the only or first one to say this, that roleplayers
> are not more advanced. That they play the game in a different way.

>   But:

>     You can roleplay and be a socializer.
>     You can roleplay and be an explorer.
>     You can roleplay and be an achiever.
>     You can roleplay and be a killer.

> Of course, you can be any of those 4 without roleplaying. Now, I'd
> say offhand that being a socializer is playing the game
> differently than a killer. But either could also be a roleplayer:
> socializing about in-game events, or limiting your targets as a
> killer (like killing Good Players, or Evil Players or Elves, etc).

> In essence, you cannot roleplay without being one of the classic
> 4,

Not sure that I agree with this.  What if you roleplay an
unambitious bum who doesn't like to talk to people?  You're not
socializing, not exploring, not trying to achieve anything, and not
trying to compete with or kill anyone.

(Note that I'm not saying that I think many people would *want* to
roleplay that -- just that it's something that could be roleplayed,
and wouldn't fit into any of those four categories.)

> but you can be any of the classic 4 without roleplaying. So I
> wouldn't call it playing differently. I'd call it playing with
> more or less added [a killer limiting themselves because of RP
> might be considered 'less' versus an explorer roleplaying that may
> be 'more'].

Not sure that I understand the distinction you're making -- how is
"playing with more or less added" not "playing differently"?  I
wasn't talking about goals, I was talking more about means -- a
roleplayer makes up a character and plays that character, where a
non-roleplayer uses a character as a game piece or an extension of
their self.  These are different ways of playing the game, even if
the ultimate goal is the same.

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