Xena lesbian adventures?

YES! YES! YES!
It's the perfect time to roll up this Sailor Moon character I've been sitting on. I'll be the silken haired doe eyed lass in the atrium.
They'll have to open up noble houses to deal with all of us. I can't wait for all the sex RP!

The alternatives to Allanak/rinth (which is basically one in the same for many characters these days) are kinda hit and miss in terms of activity. Nothing against mudsexxors but I have encountered rooms full of all female PC and almost all lesbians.

It isn't that you are playing in the wrong place, its that the quality of roleplaying has gone down significantly everywhere. What often irks me is when my plain ugly male character gets ignored by these types of characters, even if its the most regular non-sexual RP.

The way I see it, one important thing, this forum and the GDB have always been gun shy about is RP. This has always kind of struck me as strange because it's a ROLEPLAYING game. I get that on a game like Arm what constitutes "quality" RP is going to vary from person to person, but if you never have that discussion as heated as it might become talking about it might help you see it's not as bad as you thought.

That being said, I'm not a Xena type player but I'll tell you what I think is going on. Arm is a game that's going to attract different kinds of players. It does a lot of things right that makes people comeback repeatedly; despite the kind of cult like thing it has going on. It does just enough to attract people with different motivations to play to log on. There was a time where you'd find a little bit of everything no matter where you went. I do think a large concentration of any player type in one place, the game gets stale fast. You need a variety of types for a game to be healthy. I don't subscribe to Bartle's archetypes (I think it's outdated) but player types need to be taken into consideration.

I'm digressing. Xena types! Arm is really two games: it's the bro game and it's a Lords and Ladies game. The funny thing is they don't play well together and there are very few people that fall in between like there used to be, so players have become even more polarized. This is a very important hurdle for Arm to overcome or the churn will continue. Arm's staff has to figure out how to get them to play well together again and closing Tuluk and focusing everything on 'nak wasn't the answer.

Warning!!!! Trigger Alert!!!! Deep down you know I'm right though.

The "bro" game is mainly players that make repeat characters and cycle the Byn, Kurac, AoD, indies, dwarves....you get the idea. More of the combat oriented clans draw them. They might do other roles, but those clans are their mainstays. Rp tends to lean toward "frat boy": tough guys, edge-lords, lovable rogues, etc. One thing they all have in common there's going to be something coded they're going to be really good at. Fun to them tends to be the top dog in the sparring ring, having the best equipment, being crude, being humorous, being "dark". Rp habits include setting up their client to go from nak to Luirs, while they play their other game on Steam, complete with canned emotes so staff won't get suspicious. Some tend to stay away from players that are emoting a whole sentence because quite frankly, it tends to show how little they're actually putting into it. When staff does animate for them they tend not to notice or just KILL the thing before any kind of plot can develop. They're ok with logging on to kill the tembo, every day and in extreme cases every hour is legit because that's the only way they can play the character they envisioned. This isn't necessarily a male or female thing, I think GDB Lizzie has a pretty Bro bent.

Xena! I'm getting to it!

Then there's the Lord and Lady game. The Lord and Lady characters tend to end up playing merchants, crafters, aides, prostitutes...you know players that don't really do anything but can "make things happen". They tend to lock themselves away and play with each other, because they're afraid if they let a bro play with them they're going to do something crazy like piss in the corner during their dinner party or quote Rick and Morty, which would totally ruin their immersion! These are the writers of the game's lore, the carefully played out scenes that go down like they're supposed to and end up in the Arm fan fiction...I mean player submission threads on the gdb. They usually wear color coordinated outfits, all custom and have a description that will scroll your screen and that's before you get to what they're wearing. Their plots tend to be cheesy, but if you don't go along with them, you're out! If you're not dumb enough to go along with them or ask hard hitting questions or follow what the vaguely written docs say (their interpretation anyway) expect a player complaint to be filed against you to boot. Staff tend to like them and take up most of their attention, hell some of them ARE staff so of course their plots get done.

Xena rp tends to be bros that are "branching" out their Rp. But because they're a bro....they ain't no fagget....so the character only has sex with other female characters....who are most likely played by males too....you know what? Don't try to think about it too hard.

If you're playing in Allanak, you're going to get the largest concentration of bros and lords and ladies. The players that fall in between the two tend NOT to play there. Red storm and Luirs are still viable....or viseversa it never hurts to pick up and go somewhere else, just try to stay a little while because the PB tends to cycle characters and locations very fast. Once the key Xena dies or stores...the group tends to follow.



(This wasn't a response to signifyingmonkey)

supposedly now they need a book report after every planned kill and they want ur rough draft turned in before u do it too

If you're seeing more Sailor Moon characters, it might be because the change they made to magic pretty much ensured that anyone with a few karma is a Sailor Moon character.