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I'd offer if you could ship the poor doggie cross-country Sunny.

No.

I like the idea of a roster without the crunchy bits filled in.

Leave the name and some other stuff out, but give them a vague backstory and a +sheet and let the player just run with it.

FC? No thank you.

It's cabana boys all over again. Derail threads critical to you/your game with nonsense.

Bravo.

I don't think the problem here is individual players and their antagonist characters.

I think the problem is a broader issue of people playing antagonistically and then staff denying their antagonism is happening.

The 'examples' given by staff of problem players refer to those outside the ruling clique.

They don't encompass the problem players within the clique. Now I don't play there, so I'm just going to take a wild guess and say the clique includes:

Oblivious meathead - This person plays a violent, abrasive meathead character. Hoo-ah. OOCly they see nothing wrong with their character's actions and neither does their clique because 'lol he is a good rper and you just don't understand.' Usually a typical generic whitebread male character with few defining personality traits aside from those mentioned.

Oversensitive whiner - This person is militantly triggered by everything and oh my god people are so mean! Of course, this only includes things said by those outside the clique. When the clique members do the same things they just say 'lol they are just joking and you don't understand'. Most often an effeminate, stereotypically gay character.

Spotty McSpotlighterson - This person's character saves the day! They are in charge! They're the focus of the story! They only do it because nobody else steps up though. If they didn't, nobody else would! They're not a problem, you're the problem for thinking they're the problem! This one varies but is almost always a staff alt of some sort and usually somehow has more stats or XP than anyone else.

Bitchy Queen Bee - All other female characters are played by bitches and they deserve to be the victims of cattiness OOCly from Bitchy Queen Bee. BQB doesn't mean those hurtful, snide things she says! She's just joking! Really! I mean Becky is kind of a slut and Tracy is a bitch but lol, am I right? Tends to use 'pretty but generic' PBs and plays characters that are 'sweet' or 'kind' or 'nice' while behaving manipulatively OOCly.

...am I pretty warm with these stereotypes? I'm willing to bet that names immediately pop into mind for those of you who play the game.

Staff is right and you are wrong. That seems to be what Seraphim73 is trying to relate. Whatever problems you had either weren't problems, or aren't problems anymore.

Couple that with Seraphim73's character being the star of the game and you've got a recipe for literally every single game run by a married couple ever.

I'd take that bet. And I'd win that bet.

The 'rebels' are the status quo. Assholes are your status quo. That means that decent people are your rebels.

Passive aggressive post is passive aggressive.

I suspect Ixokai is one of those players you're all complaining about. That would explain his or her obliviousness.

That's unfortunate, because Sindome is so aggressively boring.

There's always a few drug dealers and a few cyberdoctors and a few BIG importers. Unless the pbase has just shrunken that much. Which is possible.

He tends to get overly emotionally invested in his IC relationships and seems to tie some of his self worth to his characters.

To be fair, that's something a lot of people are guilty of. I just don't find the guy to be a 'problem' player. Your experience with him may be totally different.

I don't play there currently, incidentally. So maybe he's taken a turn for the worse in recent months/weeks/years.

@deadculture Shady's not that guy. He's got his issues, but he's not that guy.

Spitmonkey is as familiar as other OOC names are for player accounts on the game.

I've known a few Atticus' over the years there. The first one I can remember owned Securitech Apartments a long ass time ago though. I think he played Tremere too, but my memory is a little fuzzy on that.

I'm more familiar with character names than OOC bits. I never really got into the OOC culture of the game.

@lithium That seems to be a trend on a lot of the smaller, more insular games.

A sort of xenophobia runs rampant that involves outsiders' motives being constantly questioned and actions misconstrued so that everything you say or do is you being a big meanie head who needs to be run off with passive aggressive nonsense.

Now tell us how you really feel about Shady, @deadculture

He's a little obsessive, to be honest, but he's not a bad guy. He also doesn't PK people who just don't interact with him. There's a lot worse that's been on the game over the years.

Plus? PKing isn't a big deal. Gear and credits mean nothing. You can earn 50-100k credits in a month just half-assing it and puttering around. Dying costs you like... a 2k clone and whatever cheapo gear you happen to have on you.

I was sent some logs from the game a while back of players being treated like crap for not justifying their antagonism through OOC niceness enough.

I wish I had held onto them to post now.

In this sort of environment, antagonism is only acceptable if you're in the right clique. If you're not, no amount of OOC niceness will do you any good.