Jun 7, 2017, 8:01 PM

@Ganymede said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

will try to create a political or economy system that would eventually create its own RP. Because I've seen it happen before, and I know it's possible.

The one easy, glaring exception to needing metaplot to prevent sandbox on a WoD MU is....make a vampire game and let the players get involved in politics. It just needs staff there as a mediator and also probably as the initial prince/whatever (unless you maybe did some storyline with them being wiped out and new people filling the praxis), and then it'd probably be pretty self-sustaining if there were systems for territory/feeding.

The barrier is, I'm guessing, that you can't make that game and then be involved in the actual politicking shit yourself if you're staff, so nobody's done it.

People have sort of half-ass tried this. Fear and Loathing has player politics, supposedly. Hard to have any interest in when they just let people randomly app in at 150 XP or whatever as 'guest stars'. And they're using some weird hodgepodge of 1e/2e. And they have other splats and dragging other splats into sphere-politics is just meh.