Some comments: I disagree that the problems can be settled by the CSR, though I think that close attention and observation by the CSR is crucial. Surely they cannot lean back and let the players act. While I disagree to Zhoi that the players in question have employed intentional griefing, I can confirm that they have acted in a highly insensitive an egotist way, not aware that and how often they were transgressing the red line, hurting the player, not the character (and yes, I know they contempt those complaining about their rudeness as "bisounours"). Apart from that, the roleplay connected with the Zhoi mobbing fun was despicably bad, with the Awakened Feylin sitting peacefully among Thesos sessions where her fellow representative of Zorai Circles (of Hoi Cho) was slandered, not saying any word of critique. The actions in the international sphere were in no way better.
Matter of fact is that roleplay is falling apart at the moment, with considerable parts of the smaller RP communities feeling crushed and pushed aside by a numerically larger group still mourning old times, and employing much parallel foreign policy in their language sessions. Assembly participation has dropped dramatically, and granted, I am also bit tired about dishonorable spectacles with manipulated speakers' lists like in Pyr lately.
This thread also has developped alarmingly. I want to remind that the original post of Laofa was an appeal to her own community to reconsider their attitudes, and translating that by the CSR team was an attempt to start a dialogue. Yet obviously nothing of that kind is about to begin.
A comment to what Tamarea wrote: I feel a bit alienated by interpretations that my roleplay is not "proper" roleplay which is implied a bit by the movie example. Me, Daomei, and Diwu alike, neither play an RL character, nor do we ever act OOC except when discussing technical questions or mission details on uni chat. Different even from many of the french roleplayers, we do not regard tell, channels, PvP tag, or protective zones around vortices and tp as "OOC", rather as part of the world of Atys, as effects caused by the higher powers. That way, we have more often "the camera running" than those who do not. Likewise, our fight against the NPC bosses is not "OOC" but part of our fight for the free peoples of Atys, and I know that many of the participants of these fights regard it that way as well. And I well wrote the dirty slander against us e.g. by Liverion and Yricl in the french forums. That, too, is not proper roleplay in my eyes.
During the last weeks we had to recognize worrisome tendencies towards nationalist seclusion. There are some rather hopeful fields, anyway, especially the Ranger events. Yet the development of international RP at the moment is nothing less than encourageing.
Matter of fact is that roleplay is falling apart at the moment, with considerable parts of the smaller RP communities feeling crushed and pushed aside by a numerically larger group still mourning old times, and employing much parallel foreign policy in their language sessions. Assembly participation has dropped dramatically, and granted, I am also bit tired about dishonorable spectacles with manipulated speakers' lists like in Pyr lately.
This thread also has developped alarmingly. I want to remind that the original post of Laofa was an appeal to her own community to reconsider their attitudes, and translating that by the CSR team was an attempt to start a dialogue. Yet obviously nothing of that kind is about to begin.
A comment to what Tamarea wrote: I feel a bit alienated by interpretations that my roleplay is not "proper" roleplay which is implied a bit by the movie example. Me, Daomei, and Diwu alike, neither play an RL character, nor do we ever act OOC except when discussing technical questions or mission details on uni chat. Different even from many of the french roleplayers, we do not regard tell, channels, PvP tag, or protective zones around vortices and tp as "OOC", rather as part of the world of Atys, as effects caused by the higher powers. That way, we have more often "the camera running" than those who do not. Likewise, our fight against the NPC bosses is not "OOC" but part of our fight for the free peoples of Atys, and I know that many of the participants of these fights regard it that way as well. And I well wrote the dirty slander against us e.g. by Liverion and Yricl in the french forums. That, too, is not proper roleplay in my eyes.
During the last weeks we had to recognize worrisome tendencies towards nationalist seclusion. There are some rather hopeful fields, anyway, especially the Ranger events. Yet the development of international RP at the moment is nothing less than encourageing.
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Daomei die Streunerin - religionsneutral, zivilisationsneutral, gildenneutral