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RP Post Inactivity; When people don't post for months and delay RP, a solution.
Topic Started: May 15 2013, 01:05 AM (192 Views)
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[PROBLEM]
Even though I just joined the forum, I came across this issue and as it was told to me by many role-players in the chat that they had also faced the same issue, which is people going inactive in the role-play threads and lagging others in their posting too.

[SOLUTION]
My experience in other role-playing games allowed me to test and experience this concept myself which was able to fix the inactivity problem. The idea is when the given role-players agree to a certain story or adventure their characters should now belong to that story and accessible to the role-players taking part in the story. Let's say there are two people conducting an adventure together, and one goes inactive in between, the first person will have the right to control the second person's character to get to closest possible conclusion of the adventure. This in RPG terms is aslo known as self-initiated action. After a certain time, the active player gains right to the character of the inactive player, allowing him or her to post in his or her behalf to continue the story until it reaches a valid conclusion.

Not only that, in some places I have also witnessed people asking their "friends" or "narrators" to take over other person's character and help them conclude the story and move on. This way, it will somewhat help negating the halt that comes when one person goes inactive, it also fills the loop hole of story that would happen if someone just quits, it also makes whatever the award distribution for that specific adventure is, valid.

[CONCLUSION]
I haven't gotten myself fully with the role-play system, but this is what I have learned from the reads I did here. I think it will be really helpful to implement self-initiated action as an option for the role-player so they could keep roleplaying without getting stuck. Pardon me if I said something that was not applicable or already advised.
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No.

The reason we can't allow that is due to you can't control the actions of another person's character 99.9999% of the time unless consent is given and in a appropriate situation such as say person A decides they want person B to allow them to be hit and describe what happens to them after being hit.
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Would rather take action than a unfinished sl penalty. But hey.. I'd just go on without the other person anyway. Btw if someone does just go mia during an sl that would take too long/be too boring to finish alone-what steps can you take to avoid unfinished sl penalty?

Do you simply rp out your character deciding not to finish the mission, leaving the other character in the process?
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May 15 2013, 01:32 AM
No.

The reason we can't allow that is due to you can't control the actions of another person's character 99.9999% of the time unless consent is given and in a appropriate situation such as say person A decides they want person B to allow them to be hit and describe what happens to them after being hit.


I still don't see any "con" in your post regarding controlling other person's character for conclusion.

Sairento
May 15 2013, 01:46 AM
Would rather take action than a unfinished sl penalty. But hey.. I'd just go on without the other person anyway. Btw if someone does just go mia during an sl that would take too long/be too boring to finish alone-what steps can you take to avoid unfinished sl penalty?

Do you simply rp out your character deciding not to finish the mission, leaving the other character in the process?


That depends on you, whichever way you could think of to get out of the situation works fine, basically the idea is to conclude the story as soon as possible.

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It's not a matter of pros and cons, it's that we simply don't allow people to control someone else's character for anything more than menial things such as a hug/a hit/ etc when given consent by that player.
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§3.1 While it is of course natural that many have a core idea of how they want their storyline to go, it is not only frowned upon, but explicitly forbidden to refuse to deviate from said plan. This involves both storylines that are made solo, or solo with an acting narrator, and even in a fully formed crew.

Saying "lol I'll just take control of the person so the sl ends up how I want it to be" is a no.

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§3.5 The membership should have a focus on their individual characters in their RP, and those characters interaction with eachother, as well as external threats. The staff should strive to actively restrain the members from gaining NPCs with which they can substitute interaction with other members.

Taking control of other members' characters is not only preventing you from focusing on your own character, but also keeping you from having to interact with actual members, who are different from their characters.

In short, what dark said: no. Taking control of other characters, unless they specifically allow you to for the sake of making a small section of the rp easier, just doesn't fly, and even then it's frowned upon. If someone goes inactive, you just have to work around the problem that that causes. Using your logic if somebody wanted to quit a sl and leave, you would gain the rights to control their character so as to maintain the plot and story even if that same person then starts a new sl with the same character.

Again, in short: no.
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