February 17, 2012 08:01AM
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For what it's worth, the whole antipathy towards 'snooty elves' is a good RP angle. I can't explain it, but the sense I got from interacting with you was OOC impatience and anger, rather than an IC 'racial dislike'.
Never did my IC behaviour towards you change in the slightest because of my OOC dislike of how you (the player) was playing your paladin.
Re: Akresius: Yeah, sure is frustrating for me that my IMM just didn't know how to set virtues. Now I have a little emotional/intellectual exercise for you - how about you try engaging with the feeling of 'empathy', and put yourself in my shoes. I'm not complaining now that I have deleted, and have been told by my IMM that he'd have given me 2 virtues going on 3.
I think the ultimate test of a player who is good for the game is this:
If the player had to interact with another player who was EXACTLY LIKE HIM. If rogue met rogue, and were enemies, I guarantee you they will hate each others guts, scream at each other, and ignore each other. Please think about what that says about your 'playstyle'. I'd say if funnyone met funnyone, or Jerro met Jerro, they'd have similar experiences. What makes human interaction tolerable is our ability to empathise. And this is why deriveh is great for the game (loot obsession aside :P). He is a genuinely nice person, who thinks about the other guy's feelings, and wants the other guy to also enjoy himself. If you thrive off making other people unhappy, accept the fact that people are going to hate you.
So next time you yell at your enemies, call them 'pussy' and 'coward' and loot them 'because they deserved it' - try thinking of how you would act if you met you. A game full of rogues would be busy full-looting, swearing and ignoring each other.
IC characters don't have to be 'nice'. But there's something about you, the player, which bleeds anger through to your characters (see logs of ergow by Akedeh). It's like this giant negative cloud you shoot out, to make other people just not enjoy the interaction at all. You don't have to fix it, but I encourage you to try. You might find that you enjoy the game, and life, a little more after that.
You'd be surprised at how great my interactions have been with many enemies - as an Akresius follower you don't whine about loots and stuff. I've not had a single enemy full loot me out of spite, and most people were quite sportsmanlike. Some people (deriveh, Isildur, marcus) can get along with nearly anyone in the game. Their death threads are full of positive feelings and encouragement. Yours are the opposite. Both you and they face the same playerbase. I'll leave the conclusion up to you.
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