Traydon Wrote:I don't like this thread. The whole thing seems like an entirely backhanded way to gossip about people in FFXI, and that's not very nice at all. ):This seems to me an overly sensitive response to a legitimate discussion, but I'll defer to forum moderator as to whether this thread should be locked or not. Suffice it to say, I don't think anyone is badmouthing anyone else. I certainly am not. I am pointing out some RP styles that people had complained about in the past. Some styles become cliche more quickly than others. The very first demonic possession we saw was very well done and I think most in the community at the time were impressed by it, until 3 other individuals ran similar plots, and in one instance essentially the exact same thing. While I can't speak for the original RPer, I can understand how he may have been put off by this.
In dealing with this topic, I was actually thinking of an issue with an individual who was RPing a pregnancy over the span of nine months. During this timeframe I believe two other pregnancies occurred and came to completion (one of which resulted in some sort of demon baby but that's neither here nor there). While pregnancy is a naturally occurring phenomenon and any RPer could do it, it felt like others took away from her RP, lessening it by having it span only a few weeks when she was trying to do this. There was also the issue that one of these 'copycats' was particularly rude about it, and would attempt to 'drown out' any RP regarding the pregnancy by immediately bringing up her own. I just recall clearly how livid she was that what she was trying to do was turned into a mockery.
This is very likely going to be an issue we'll have to address eventually, so why not bring it up now?
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