(02-11-2015, 11:57 AM)Telluride Wrote: I have a personal bias, I admit, because of the number of times I've seen people start up brawls in other MMOs in such ways as to be little more than god-mode trolling, and who flat-out refuse to acknowledge that if they are taking up public, well-used playing space, and not being mindful of the greater RP community, then they are rightly labeled as @$$hats by that community. I say to the OP, if this is not you, sir, then please disregard any implied criticism.Exactly this! And I think from reading the OP's posts he's not expecting this sort of thing, but hopefully he can understand where some of the OOC friction he's seeing originates. Barfights for me typically begin as an unwelcome interruption to normal tavern RP, take a loooong time to wind to some point where usually things end up in kind of a muddled mess. It has not exactly made for thrilling and powerful RP. Not to say that it couldn't!
I guess I'd be a lot more inclined to just gasp, shout, and hide if these things tended to be explosive and short
Honestly, the best "barfight" that I've seen was the quick and realistic reaction to someone getting hit over the head with a full bottle of wine. The target (I think entirely unsuspecting that this was going to happen) fell out cold (*thunk*).
However, just to make my point, said assaulter not only continues to come by the QS regularly, but has conducted further assaults in the QS itself! Its like there just are no consequences at all, and that is the sort of thing that really bugs me. You attempt to murder someone enough times in the QS, and you're probably barred from the place.
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