(09-22-2015, 02:55 AM)Foxberry Wrote:(09-21-2015, 10:38 PM)Val Wrote:(09-21-2015, 10:31 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(09-21-2015, 09:21 PM)Foxberry Wrote: Nah, you are correct Freelance. We used 'Autoing' in Ayenee (Yahoo chats) back mid 90's. (We as in Ayenee players)
It is a 'change of the times' sort of thing. Autoing was an 'automatic hit' vs god-moding which was as Freelance said; "Undefeatable super character".
So it's really just a matter of where you came from, what your background is, and how long you've rped. I've used autoing for many, many years. I still consider 'god moding' as something as having a hyper-fantastical character.
This doesn't make these terms wrong. It just means well... You're old. Haha. So like Freelance I fall into the "I am old" camp. And just to edit on; these terms are super subjective. What may be 'godmoding' to one person is something else to another. Again, this isn't to say that one is right or the other is not. Just where you come from.
That term must have gone out of style by the time I was in Ayenee (I didn't have internet or a computer in the mid-90s). Â I just remember godmodding from when I got there. Â TBH, I didn't find good RP until I moved on to text-based WoD settings and then later when I discovered NWN.
Idunno, I hit the scene around 97-99ish and it was still being used then, into the early 00s when it asploded. Granted, it was likely only used around particular circles then.
Yeah it was pretty prevalent till about 99? Man I started back 96' or so? Maybe 97'? I feel old. It was pretty 'gone' by the time early 00's came around mostly because they started closing down the servers- Yahoo that is. Earlier 90's it was good rp if you found yourself in a decent guild; very nice people etc. Minimal drama but then... Like Rome it all crashed lol. We used to mentor people back then, I think by the time 00's hit there were little to no people mentoring. It was a different time- and thus I am now old as fuck.
I miss it though; it was a fun time. Like you said above, Liadan; there was a lot to be found there. There was also various forms of combat, T1/T2 etc a lot of these terms were defunct by the time 00's hit. Though at the same time- by that point it was long gone the days of yore as it were.
As for the forums; it was a lot of shiposting and cliquish crap. It's why I avoided them.
Yup yup. I knew some of the guys that helped form the whole T1/T2/T3 thing. Some were good people, some were pricks. T1 was basically what we use now, T2 was based around the fastest typer wins, and T3 was just full-on autos. As I said in an earlier post, back then people didn't RP combat so much as they used it as a status symbol to wave around. Looking back on it, I miss the time because there was a lot of great and fun RP, but then I think I'm just being blinded by nostalgia because really a lot of the RP I saw/did was shit. It wasn't until I got a bit more experience under my belt and moved on to other things that I started to grow.
And yeah, when they all moved to forums I bailed. It was awful.
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