Well, I can't call this "real" harassment. It's annoying, that much is true - but I won't write tickets to CSRs about that. Because as Bittty said: it's not like I as a player had been called names or been told to go die or leave the game or something; even if I have been mocked OOC, as the chatlog above confirms (the part about needing glasses).
There have been more occasions of similar mockery since then - but most IC- and OOC-(verbal)attacks happened in front of the Event-Team or in the public forum, and none of the "officials" ever reacted to that in any way. So even if that kind of treatment surely shows grave disrespect from player towards player it seemingly is still considered somehow "acceptable" officially... So no use to bother CSRs with tickets about this.
I wouldn't call political RP in Ryzom "highly serious" ;) Most roleplayers in Ryzom are tolerant of "light RP" and will be really forgiving about "mistakes", just like the Event-Team is as well. So please don't worry! Lately mistakes happen more often than in the past; as for many players English is not our native language and keeping up with fast RP-chats is quite hard to manage without using work-arounds of all kinds.
Just like Derryn said in a posting above: thought-emotes could be viewed as "power-emotes" in general; and in some roleplaying-games and/or RP-groups they are actually banned. So you have to be really careful to not use anything like that in "serious" roleplaying-environments; and there would be a lot more RP-rules to be obeyed too; like to never describe anything other characters cannot perceive or to never break your character even in the slightest way.
However in Ryzom thought-emotes are officially accepted and you won't have to worry about making small mistakes, like using a little bit of OOC at times, or player-knowledge, or abbreviations, or power-emotes once in a while - or even chat-language :) The Event-Team of Ryzom has clearly confirmed that thought-emotes are definitely allowed in Ryzom; even in any language that players wish to use - as long as these thought-emotes do not insult other players.
However there is a small gap in what the (French) Event-Team-member who played Denen Toen said: "If at any moment a player feels insulted ...". And I might easily FEEL insulted by any emote in a language that I cannot understand for instance. Especially if the context makes it seem highly possible that an insult must have been spouted. But Geyos did not use such unfair means :)
I believe that the chatlog clearly shows that Geyos did not want his thought-emotes to be understood OOC; since he reacted to my own OOC-thought-emote about the busy RL of Akenak Malin by using an IC-thought-emote himself, commenting that Geyos doesn't know what "RL" is. I dislike using OOC-thought-emotes, but in this case I did not want him to "insult" the player of Akenak Malin as being "non-existent", just because s/he hadn't participated in national Fyros-Assemblies until June 13th 2013.
We've been talking about the topic of thought-emotes via forum before http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=topic/view/16556/29 #29 and as you can read in the chatlog about Denen Toen I have also claimed that thought-emotes usually can be treated as being heard or guessed during roleplay in front of an Event-Team-member.
The Event-Team/CSRs never stated that reacting to thought-emotes IC as if your character/ toon has heard/guessed them would be wrong. Au contraire: in the past a German Event-Team-Senior has told me that replying to thought-emotes IC is absolutely alright. And so, as Geyos clearly wanted his thoughts to be understood IC, I felt free to comment to it IC afterwards within my "report" that Geyos has quoted. :)
I think it is very rich of Geyos to react indignated about others crying out in pain after HE has stepped on their feet - especially as he has been doing this on purpose, with the intend to hurt and completely unprovoked by my character to top it off. Zhoi has never attacked Geyos verbally, has never harbored hostile thoughts against him, did never make use of offending gestures or so - and there has even never been an IC-argument between Zhoi and Geyos! All my character ever did was defend herself in a reserved way whenever she had been molested.
So as a conclusion to all of this: Zhoi will go on defending herself against thought-emotes in this way, by replying to them as if she had heard/guessed them; and I as a player will not listen to anyone's demands to just take the beating silently like a good doggie, neither IC nor OOC.
There have been more occasions of similar mockery since then - but most IC- and OOC-(verbal)attacks happened in front of the Event-Team or in the public forum, and none of the "officials" ever reacted to that in any way. So even if that kind of treatment surely shows grave disrespect from player towards player it seemingly is still considered somehow "acceptable" officially... So no use to bother CSRs with tickets about this.
I wouldn't call political RP in Ryzom "highly serious" ;) Most roleplayers in Ryzom are tolerant of "light RP" and will be really forgiving about "mistakes", just like the Event-Team is as well. So please don't worry! Lately mistakes happen more often than in the past; as for many players English is not our native language and keeping up with fast RP-chats is quite hard to manage without using work-arounds of all kinds.
Just like Derryn said in a posting above: thought-emotes could be viewed as "power-emotes" in general; and in some roleplaying-games and/or RP-groups they are actually banned. So you have to be really careful to not use anything like that in "serious" roleplaying-environments; and there would be a lot more RP-rules to be obeyed too; like to never describe anything other characters cannot perceive or to never break your character even in the slightest way.
However in Ryzom thought-emotes are officially accepted and you won't have to worry about making small mistakes, like using a little bit of OOC at times, or player-knowledge, or abbreviations, or power-emotes once in a while - or even chat-language :) The Event-Team of Ryzom has clearly confirmed that thought-emotes are definitely allowed in Ryzom; even in any language that players wish to use - as long as these thought-emotes do not insult other players.
However there is a small gap in what the (French) Event-Team-member who played Denen Toen said: "If at any moment a player feels insulted ...". And I might easily FEEL insulted by any emote in a language that I cannot understand for instance. Especially if the context makes it seem highly possible that an insult must have been spouted. But Geyos did not use such unfair means :)
I believe that the chatlog clearly shows that Geyos did not want his thought-emotes to be understood OOC; since he reacted to my own OOC-thought-emote about the busy RL of Akenak Malin by using an IC-thought-emote himself, commenting that Geyos doesn't know what "RL" is. I dislike using OOC-thought-emotes, but in this case I did not want him to "insult" the player of Akenak Malin as being "non-existent", just because s/he hadn't participated in national Fyros-Assemblies until June 13th 2013.
We've been talking about the topic of thought-emotes via forum before http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=topic/view/16556/29 #29 and as you can read in the chatlog about Denen Toen I have also claimed that thought-emotes usually can be treated as being heard or guessed during roleplay in front of an Event-Team-member.
The Event-Team/CSRs never stated that reacting to thought-emotes IC as if your character/ toon has heard/guessed them would be wrong. Au contraire: in the past a German Event-Team-Senior has told me that replying to thought-emotes IC is absolutely alright. And so, as Geyos clearly wanted his thoughts to be understood IC, I felt free to comment to it IC afterwards within my "report" that Geyos has quoted. :)
I think it is very rich of Geyos to react indignated about others crying out in pain after HE has stepped on their feet - especially as he has been doing this on purpose, with the intend to hurt and completely unprovoked by my character to top it off. Zhoi has never attacked Geyos verbally, has never harbored hostile thoughts against him, did never make use of offending gestures or so - and there has even never been an IC-argument between Zhoi and Geyos! All my character ever did was defend herself in a reserved way whenever she had been molested.
So as a conclusion to all of this: Zhoi will go on defending herself against thought-emotes in this way, by replying to them as if she had heard/guessed them; and I as a player will not listen to anyone's demands to just take the beating silently like a good doggie, neither IC nor OOC.
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