Jan 21, 2018, 10:21 PM

@faraday said in Armageddon MUD:

@thugheaven said in Armageddon MUD:

What I was trying to get across is: Some people won’t break character to show you the right thing to do or say. That’s one of the essentials of good story telling right? Show don’t tell. I know it can feel like it’s a personal affront to you the player, but most people aren’t doing it to make you feel bad or silly or haze newbies. Give it a chance because it might lead you somewhere good.

No, it really isn't one of the essentials of good storytelling, and this blind and repetitive insistence that it's the only good way to play is alienating people here far, far more than the fact that you're advertising a MUD instead of a MUSH.

What you're describing - reacting ICly to an obvious OOC misunderstanding - is not only uncommon on most MUSHes, it's considered downright jerk-ish behavior. Not because we're wusses who get affronted by challenge, but because we find it silly when people don't acknowledge that the character should know things that you, the player, don't know.

It's how things are there.

"You've never RPed until you've RPed on Arm.", like the game is the holy grail of RP - they invented it, you know, like Al Gore invented the internet. The now moved-on Nergal used to talk about how he didn't care if people left, because the people who stuck around made for better, truer RP, or something to that effect.

Sorry to say, but you and everyone else is wrong. You're either doing it the Arm way, or the wrong way. Just ask them.

They'll lynch you in-game for a minor error that's easy to make, like emoting walking over to the message board to read it - reading is illegal, you see. The message board is right there and newbies fresh off the wagon don't realize it's an OOC construct, because it exists as an object in the room, so they emote reading it and every bored soldier PC, tavern idler and their cousins are leaping at the chance to antagonize them for it.

They won't let them apologize and do-over, either. No sir, they emoted it, they have it logged, they'll go to the staff if they have to, to see that poor sod is punished for slipping up in his first ten minutes of being in the game.

I've seen it happen dozens of times. There are people who will aggressively go out of their way to report it to a Templar, a noble, a soldier, to see the character punished, even when the player is corrected OOCly (in the OOC channel) and tries to re-emote something more appropriate. They really don't give a rip, they just want an excuse to PK someone, or ruin someones time, just because they've got the opportunity.

I've been in OOC disputes (bad form, I know) with other players for pursuing newbies for "treason" for this very thing, numerous times. The staff is quick to sweep in and inform me I'm the one out of line for it, too.

Friendly to newbies, welcoming to all.