new global ooc rules?

[Syft-X]

Originally Posted by Thugnuts [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a new player on Red, my main here is level 39 and unguilded. Been playing here in earnest for about five weeks.

Frankly, Red is the only reason why I'm still playing this emu.

And the only reason I'm playing still playing on Red is precisely because it's full of nutjobs, psychopaths, and various other malcontents and degenerates... who sometimes do say strange things out of character. But that's part of the charm. Logging into Red is like walking into a seedy dive bar on the bad side of town and wondering how many beers you can drink before someone stabs you.

As a new player on this server, /ooc is a nonstop tutorial and a window into the community. You don't have that shit on blue, you have thousands of nameless and faceless pixels running around chasing merbs all day saying "Sow plz, thx" and running away. That was half my interaction on blue, and the other half was nerdrage tells, from someone I'd never seen or heard of, about something being camped. Sorry broski, I'm not here to steal your fucking gnoll champion, I just logged out here last night. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When I'm running around on Red and I come across toons, there's a good chance I actually already know of them. I know if they're a douchebag or unstable. I know if they're kind to new players. I know who they hate, who their friends are, what guild they're in, and much of what they're doing.

It's a good thing to recognize the names and personas of characters I come across, and /ooc is what makes that possible. It's the hub of the community. It facilitates the transmission of actual human personality into a game world that is relatively stale at this point.

Without that human touch, you might as well play Minesweeper or go outside or some shit.

This is so good you should just copy and paste that shit as it's own thread.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by Thugnuts [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a new player on Red, my main here is level 39 and unguilded. Been playing here in earnest for about five weeks.

Frankly, Red is the only reason why I'm still playing this emu.

And the only reason I'm playing still playing on Red is precisely because it's full of nutjobs, psychopaths, and various other malcontents and degenerates... who sometimes do say strange things out of character. But that's part of the charm. Logging into Red is like walking into a seedy dive bar on the bad side of town and wondering how many beers you can drink before someone stabs you.

As a new player on this server, /ooc is a nonstop tutorial and a window into the community. You don't have that shit on blue, you have thousands of nameless and faceless pixels running around chasing merbs all day saying "Sow plz, thx" and running away. That was half my interaction on blue, and the other half was nerdrage tells, from someone I'd never seen or heard of, about something being camped. Sorry broski, I'm not here to steal your fucking gnoll champion, I just logged out here last night. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When I'm running around on Red and I come across toons, there's a good chance I actually already know of them. I know if they're a douchebag or unstable. I know if they're kind to new players. I know who they hate, who their friends are, what guild they're in, and much of what they're doing.

It's a good thing to recognize the names and personas of characters I come across, and /ooc is what makes that possible. It's the hub of the community. It facilitates the transmission of actual human personality into a game world that is relatively stale at this point.

Without that human touch, you might as well play Minesweeper or go outside or some shit.

I am also quoting this, cus its insane to think otherwise.

[pink grapefruit]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It makes no sense on a PvP server to severely limit OOC. Eunomia doesn't know anything about red and obviously doesn't really want to.

We NEED RED guides for red.

Eunomia just doesn't understand the dynamics. The garbage and clutter need to be gotten rid of. But not at the cost of hindering growth and community. Red community doesn't operate in the same way as blue. That simple.

I accidentally ooc'd and spoke with Eunomia. Seems nice and wants to do the right thing. But wanting and doing are different animals.

It seems doubtful that Eunomia had much to do with this decision. Most likely she volunteered or was told to be the bad guy and enforce the new policy. With the other staff members being silent about this all we can really do is speculate about all of this. To me it kinda seems like maybe this and the recent forum moderation people are complaining about may have something to do with the Daybreak agreements. How open were GMs and devs in the past, about policy changes?

If they stay tight-lipped, that might be significant.

I do not envy Eunomia.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It seems doubtful that Eunomia had much to do with this decision. Most likely she volunteered or was told to be the bad guy and enforce the new policy. With the other staff members being silent about this all we can really do is speculate about all of this. To me it kinda seems like maybe this and the recent forum moderation people are complaining about may have something to do with the Daybreak agreements. How open were GMs and devs in the past, about policy changes?

If they stay tight-lipped, that might be significant.

I do not envy Eunomia.

The thing is ooc is tame compared to forum chat.. like REALLY tame..

also there is a /ignore command that eq put in by default... so its pretty ridiculous to have someone sit there manually telling people to not talk, so people can /ignore them without having to type /ignore someone.

and thirdly, make a fricken global /auc channel if you are gonna change the policy.. don't threaten suspensions for people using a channel thats being used as intended when it was created.

Whole thing is just totally nuts

[Omnifiend]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It seems doubtful that Eunomia had much to do with this decision. Most likely she volunteered or was told to be the bad guy and enforce the new policy. With the other staff members being silent about this all we can really do is speculate about all of this. To me it kinda seems like maybe this and the recent forum moderation people are complaining about may have something to do with the Daybreak agreements. How open were GMs and devs in the past, about policy changes?

If they stay tight-lipped, that might be significant.

I do not envy Eunomia.

Occam's razor. I highly doubt Daybreak cares about a 300 person server, when there is a 1300 person server to care about. The more likely explanation is a sleep deprived person decided to take out their anger on a server they hate. In interest of solidarity other GM's are unlikely to comment or reverse spur of the moment decisions not in writing on any server rules posts on any part of these forums.

[Battlelore]

Now I know why the server has been dead this weekend. Not fun for unguilded folks.

[iruinedyourday]

the thing that sux on a community level, is if people were offended, like if they were petitioning, 'ow my fricken ears' about global OOC

why didnt the staff post and say, hey guys we are going to try to clean up global ooc - so try to tone it down a notch, if you cant, then well start issuing suspensions for X voliations.. then LIST the violations!

It would have been respectful of the comunity, it would have been easier on all the staff.. it would have been better for everyone...

but hey, on how to run CSR...

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[nonphixion]

as long as i can still blatantly 3 box in peace as usual im fine with the ooc rules and name rules

[Clark]

Originally Posted by Tradesonred [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A+

Just deal with extremely dumb shit like people telling cutie to kill herself and leave OOC alone
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Leave Britney alone!

[Symbioticforks]

I'm not clear on how things are supposed to be.

Is there even a way in which things are supposed to be?

You can't staff enough support to moderate and maintain a presence on RED99, so that's certainly not classic. Serverwide OOC / Yellow Text, that's not classic either. Those were added because of the small server population. (an exception to accommodate the player base)

Changing established modes of communication this late into the game, under penalty of suspension is poor management. (no matter how things were intended, this is the current meta)

Trying to control meta gaming on a pvp server is a fools errand.