OK, I'm going to try again.
OOC
Commenting to Icus' original post.
Two things:
1. Arispotle suffered from two cases of extremism over the years. One Karavan, One Kami. In each case there were a few people who used the excuse of "It's just RP" to justify their actions as bullies to try to corner the market and force people to acknowledge them as "powerful". This does not help advance the cause of "extremism".
2. The usual "extremist" RP'er takes simple shortcuts and produces less than convincing RP. Given the conditions of 1., it becomes less tolerable.
3. (Yes, I know) There is NO justification for hoarding the riches of Atys in terms of roleplay. Atys has more than enough materials for all of us. Yet most "extremist" roleplay that we saw was aimed at just that. If you read the Holy Words of both the Kami and the Karavan there is an emphasis on conversion rather than subjugation. Sharing materials comes naturally with that if you are role-playing those factions.
4. (Getting close to Douglas Adams here) As Daomei has mentioned, low population yields no incentive to piss off fellow players.
5. (And thanks for all the fish) Arispotle being the Brit/Yank/Oz server (plus Spanish/Rus/Portugese) there is, in the population that plays games a distrust in real life of extremists of any ilk, and that carries over into gameplay. It is not that we did not have role-play, but we did not have a lot of people who enjoyed re-enacting the wars that most of us wish would stop in the so-called real world.
(edit) 6. In OOC terms I much prefer a cooperative to a combative game. So, apparently did most people playing on Arispotle. It was, in part why we came to Ryzom rather than WoW, Rift or any other primarily PvP game. Type begets type. Because we were cooperative, those who preferred extreme PvP left, because we outnumbered them.
My opinions, and worth what you paid for them.
OOC
Commenting to Icus' original post.
Two things:
1. Arispotle suffered from two cases of extremism over the years. One Karavan, One Kami. In each case there were a few people who used the excuse of "It's just RP" to justify their actions as bullies to try to corner the market and force people to acknowledge them as "powerful". This does not help advance the cause of "extremism".
2. The usual "extremist" RP'er takes simple shortcuts and produces less than convincing RP. Given the conditions of 1., it becomes less tolerable.
3. (Yes, I know) There is NO justification for hoarding the riches of Atys in terms of roleplay. Atys has more than enough materials for all of us. Yet most "extremist" roleplay that we saw was aimed at just that. If you read the Holy Words of both the Kami and the Karavan there is an emphasis on conversion rather than subjugation. Sharing materials comes naturally with that if you are role-playing those factions.
4. (Getting close to Douglas Adams here) As Daomei has mentioned, low population yields no incentive to piss off fellow players.
5. (And thanks for all the fish) Arispotle being the Brit/Yank/Oz server (plus Spanish/Rus/Portugese) there is, in the population that plays games a distrust in real life of extremists of any ilk, and that carries over into gameplay. It is not that we did not have role-play, but we did not have a lot of people who enjoyed re-enacting the wars that most of us wish would stop in the so-called real world.
(edit) 6. In OOC terms I much prefer a cooperative to a combative game. So, apparently did most people playing on Arispotle. It was, in part why we came to Ryzom rather than WoW, Rift or any other primarily PvP game. Type begets type. Because we were cooperative, those who preferred extreme PvP left, because we outnumbered them.
My opinions, and worth what you paid for them.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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