Posted by Optimist on December 04, 1999 at 21:44:21:
If it were a perfect world, where would be nothing but the CF Mud. Not IRC, no web pages, no completely ooc interactions. Will this ever happen? No. But, for those few of you reading this who haven't yet been corrupted, read carefully. Leave this forum. Never, ever, sign on to IRC. For once you do, you're CF experience will be permanently tainted. Whilst logging on to IRC hoping to see the finer points of CF roleplay, you will be bombarded with the basest, lowest forms of sophomoric drivel dealing with feces, sex, bestiality, and other assorted nastiness that will make you puke. Of course, none of it will have to do with CF itself. And upon reading these pages, you'll read much about a few people who think they have it all figured out. You'll then read a few rebuffs of those who will say what boneheads the posters are. Then a few posts saying what boneheads the rebuffers are. It doesn't get much better. But come to these forums, and the mind becomes poisoned. Smuggers, FTA, Diku, all these 'elite' groups who claim to know CF better than anyone. Guess what..it doesn't matter. I'm not a part of these little cliques, and I do damn well in CF. I highly recommend this: To truly enjoy CF, simply play CF and do nothing else. Don't surf the pages, don't lurk in IRC. Just play and be yourself. This others stuff just deteriorates the experience. Enjoy CF for what it is, an extremely well-written mud which allows for some great,creative outlets in roleplay and fantasy. Dabbling in the web pages and IRC just puts you in contact with those 'modern' day humans who, from my experience, rarely measure up to their characters. Stay virginal, people.
Why not enjoy CF for what it is? While in it, you can rp, and try to make something of yourself no matter how lowly you are.