@surreality said in Dreamwalk MUSH:
@coin This.
I know some games have coded things that replace the name with something like 'a quiet male voice' or 'an androgynous melodic voice' or whatever else, too. These can and should not duplicate (however you want to figure that out), but keeping people's contributions separate from one another isn't trivial. You could even set something up that when you actually meet the person face to face in the dream world, you 'learn' their voice, and thus see their name instead of the descriptor.
The 'spoof others' thing is definitely interesting as a concept, but I am unsure if it's one I would be comfortable running with personally.
If you're going to allow that, I'd suggest that coming with a cost of points that, when applied, records who used it and the statement made with it for staff records.
Most people in this hobby are awesome. Some are not, and that smaller group would be very likely to use this for many ugly things, plenty of them OOC grudgewank, trying to provoke OOC jealousy, ruining OOC friendships, or trying to drive players they dislike from the game, etc.
I didn't notice this response at first. But if I get OOC "grudgewank" or whatever else to that effect, or someone is harping on a particular user constantly and it dominates the channel, that will get nixed. I'm just not going to ban offhand remarks to the effect of "man I really want to fuck so-in-so" or "so-in-so is a stupid bitch" on the basis of 'harassment'.
Also, 'spoof others' is not literal. You just write like them. If you do so convincingly, well, people are convinced. Otherwise, they aren't. Also you could kind of just emulate characters to convey your perceptions of them, and if a bunch of players do it together, over time they could become a de facto Jungian archetype of their own on the game, taking on its own life of sorts.