[Poll in OP] Population Code

[Lotherio]

I make choice to use/ignore weather based on what I'm feeling. I played at a place that had rainfall every day, and before this, I enjoyed seeing what +weather had, or what it put into the desc of the room for me. Either the person didn't realize how to get the code to work right to represent annual rainfall correctly, or they thought it was a rainforest. Still, I choose to use it or not depending on what may be happening. A planned scene to go to the beach, then hit the grid and its raining - ignored. Random RP to get folks together, I'll set and use whatever weather they have in mind. If a place doesn't have it, I'll google the location to see what the current weather is sometimes.

In fact, I google anyways when using modern real world locations, to see if anything is going on to give flavor to a scene. Septemberfest in September, Nationality Day on the Green, if it has something going on, I'll describe it in a set that we can use or discard as the scene develops.

So, even if I'd choose to ignore it, population code cold be interesting. Depends how much effort one wants to put into it. I wouldn't just want to see its at x percent capacity with a lean towards ignoring fights or calling in fights. If it somehow used some &area coded into the rooms, I would certainly use it as an option. Like one part of town is college district or another is stadium district, and you threw in just a few more words for flavor for area or time of year like 'game day, fans are here' then folks know it could get rowdy and anyone looking for random bar fight could spruce it up with by being an opposing fan or something, or you know , near the college, 'dead week, lots of students, but all are quiet with nose in books' and folks would know starting something during study times would get cell phones calling 911 at any disturbance out of pure annoyance. I think if implemented right, I'd certainly use it to save myself time from looking this up (and yes, even on original theme/not earth game, I'd check their calendar for holidays and events that may overlap into a scene setting).

[ThatGuyThere]

@faraday
I can think of one reason on why to bother. That was it is up and posted for when new people join the scene.
I have had to deal with vamp players getting pissy when a scene had be set with it being daylight and +time saying daylight. So I was glad i could point ot +time and be like dude it is a public hangout +time says daylight deal.
Now granted had said player entered and oocly asked for a change it would have been accommodated.
Sadly there is no shortage of folks who lack basic respect of scenes in progress so I would welcome another tool to show what the scene it. That it also helps set scenes for the scene for others that want to join as well is also a plus.

[Thenomain]

@ThatGuyThere

I haven't interacted with Vampire players lately, but the idea that players ask these things before or when entering a scene comes specifically to find a nice balance between them and the rest of the game. The culture clash between my culture and @faraday's is not unusual, but there is a social solution around a social problem that doesn't lean on the coder to fix it.

If the coder has time to make more commands, and the culture will use it, then it's worth that coder's time. Which is the summary of my answer to @acceleration. (With the caveat that sometimes we coders do things for fun anyway.)

[ThatGuyThere]

I don't mean to single out vamp players that is just the specific instance I had in my head.
I would use a population code like I would a weather one. To help set the scene and come up for ideas if I need them.
Now if i had a particular scene idea for rp at the time, I would ignore weather or pop to have the scene that was needed at the time though in that case like when I ignore +time to have a scene different from IC time I go to private rooms.
I do like the idea of public grid play having the coded weather/population stuff.

[faraday]

@ThatGuyThere said in [Poll in OP] Population Code:

I can think of one reason on why to bother. That was it is up and posted for when new people join the scene. I have had to deal with vamp players getting pissy when a scene had be set...

Yeah I guess it's just the culture thing again. In my experience, waiting for a scene set before posing in, and dealing with whatever time/weather/etc. they've been playing is the norm. It would be weird for someone to come in and just assume a time from a room desc... even weirder for someone to get pissy about it. I've had sceneset code on my games and it's been used, like, once or twice in giant scenes. Like @Thenomain said, if the culture of the game will use it, then code it. Otherwise, don't bother.

[Thenomain]

@faraday

Unless it's fun, in which case code the shit out of it. You're allowed to code for you. After all, this is a hobby.

[ThatGuyThere]

@faraday
Not sure it is a culture thing it is generally polite in WoD as well to wait for a scene set and respect the scene going on as you join but that does not mean it always happens.