+wantrp Command Suggestion

[ThatGuyThere]

Along the line of encouraging people to RP with others they maybe would not normally interact with, I think Arx deserves praise for their thing (I can't remember what it is called) that gives each player a list of name they get bonus XP for RPing with, while this also favors the more active players, I think it is a very good step to turning a game into a single community instead of a much of isolated sandboxes.
Not sure how this has worked out but I know in the Arx thread (where I heard of it) it got praise.

[Roz]

@ThatGuyThere said in +wantrp Command Suggestion:

Along the line of encouraging people to RP with others they maybe would not normally interact with, I think Arx deserves praise for their thing (I can't remember what it is called) that gives each player a list of name they get bonus XP for RPing with, while this also favors the more active players, I think it is a very good step to turning a game into a single community instead of a much of isolated sandboxes.
Not sure how this has worked out but I know in the Arx thread (where I heard of it) it got praise.

It's @randomscene. Everyone gets three random picks every week and if you RP with one of them, both of you get a little extra XP for it. They also added new characters to encourage playing with newbies: for a character's first two weeks, they're also worth extra @randomscene XP. It's weighted towards the early scenes and the XP dropoff is pretty steep so that you don't get too much inflated XP for running around trying to grab every single newbie. (And we have a lot right now.)

[faraday]

@Ganymede said in +wantrp Command Suggestion:

Finally, the shy player. Making new code is not going to suddenly change how that player feels about reaching out to others. It is difficult; it can be painfully difficult; and I do not mean to belittle them. That said, I do not see how new code is going to help them, especially if the target player ignores them. They might think: 'well, I sent them something that reminds them constantly that I'd like to RP with them and yet they are still ignoring me.' The unintended consequence of making a player feel even more insignificant is substantial, in my opinion.

+100 for this. Introverted people are probably the least likely to use such a system. (And I say this as an extreme introvert.) I have a hard enough time paging someone to ask for a scene, let alone imposing myself upon a virtual "TODO" list.