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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Feb 14, 2016 18:22:14 GMT -5
Does it need incentive? For me roleplay is the incentive to play Armageddon. That was my initial thought as well. My incentive was that I got to play with other people who actually roleplayed. I'm still not sold on the idea that incentives would really curb any meta-gamey behavior already going on, but I haven't had much time to mull the idea over. |
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Post by BitterFlashback on Feb 14, 2016 18:38:05 GMT -5
Well a variant on the original question would be: does Arm incentivize not role playing more than it incentivizes role playing? The incentives for role playing are maybe, someday, some staffer notices it and gives you slightly more things you're allowed to play. The incentives for grinding are you can make things happen in the game, including killing the characters of people role playing.
If your incentive to role play is other role players, does Arm's lopsided approach to incentives result in more role players being driven off?
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Post by jcarter on Feb 14, 2016 18:53:40 GMT -5
Does it need incentive? For me roleplay is the incentive to play Armageddon. certain things do, imo. not using think or feel cuts down on the strength of psionicists. considering they're essentially superfluous functions, only newbies or the most devoted players would be willing to hamstring themselves by using it in tuluk previously or if they suspect there's a psion around. |
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Feb 14, 2016 19:14:05 GMT -5
Well a variant on the original question would be: does Arm incentivize not role playing more than it incentivizes role playing? The incentives for role playing are maybe, someday, some staffer notices it and gives you slightly more things you're allowed to play. The incentives for grinding are you can make things happen in the game, including killing the characters of people role playing. If your incentive to role play is other role players, does Arm's lopsided approach to incentives result in more role players being driven off? When you put it that way.... +1 |
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Post by Jeshin on Feb 14, 2016 19:17:31 GMT -5
Should roleplay be incentivized?
Yes. Even if the only reward to roleplaying is that you CAN roleplay. Providing a setting and immersive gameplay experience for roleplayers is an incentive. You'd rather roleplay on Armageddon than on an IRE MUD. That is the most basic level of reward. We are here for you to roleplay on. I think all roleplay games meet this basic level of incentive.
To expand on it though at the end of the day RP purists are not the most common form of player. Instead of arguing whether emoting when someone walks into a room with you (in the desert) or immediately coded acting is good or bad roleplay. Why not just create an incentive for roleplay over immediate coded action? You could kind of cheese it and add in an emote combat system like Burning Post II has where the pace of combat is slowed down and you can enact quick 1-2 line emotes that apply coded combat affects like aiming for the torso, disarm, defend, blah blah blah.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 10:40:45 GMT -5
So Armageddon's incentive to roleplay (besides enjoyment) is karma for more unique roles and animations by Storytellers? I can see that. I'd agree, if players felt that X behavior + Y reward, even a percentage of the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 10:41:58 GMT -5
Does it need incentive? For me roleplay is the incentive to play Armageddon. certain things do, imo. not using think or feel cuts down on the strength of psionicists. considering they're essentially superfluous functions, only newbies or the most devoted players would be willing to hamstring themselves by using it in tuluk previously or if they suspect there's a psion around. Or, sadly, bios. |
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Post by Azerbanjani on Feb 15, 2016 13:11:20 GMT -5
certain things do, imo. not using think or feel cuts down on the strength of psionicists. considering they're essentially superfluous functions, only newbies or the most devoted players would be willing to hamstring themselves by using it in tuluk previously or if they suspect there's a psion around. Or, sadly, bios. Bios? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 13:31:28 GMT -5
There is some evidence that one of the psion powers allows them to read bios. A couple of us lost northern pcs to Qoriya, where that seemed to be the only way she'd have known things. |
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