(07-21-2017, 06:06 PM)Meena Wrote: I just find it odd that i is a requirement for most people to ask them first to approach despite them already role playing in public. if my character is there, why are they invisible to someone until I ask permission?
Like - "is my character invisible until I signify I want to join in" - kinda yeah? I don't think it's that uncommon to have to mentally assume someone's toon is not there until they've done something to specify otherwise, and whether that "something" is dropping an IC emote or sending an OOC tell is largely inconsequential in terms of the ignoring and the fact it only ends on cue.
Because... until you're doing something specific to signify that you're there IC, there's always the chance that you're just flitting about OOCly doing quests or something? Even with the RP tag, some people use it to signify that they're an RPer in general and not that they are currently RPing, so it's not exactly a guarantee. And IMO, it's more damaging to the flow of RP to acknowledge someone IC and then have them immediately teleport away, than it is to just ignore them until they do something to make it clear they're interested.
On to simply dropping an emote versus sending a tell - aside from the other advantage I mentioned earlier (getting a better litmus on whether these are actually people you want to interact with or not), sending a tell gives an avenue for the players to fill you in on missing context. Like, depending on how long you've been there for, you might or might not have caught context emotes that would still be immediately obvious to your character, such as:
- Person A is holding an oversized sword that does not look like it belongs to them.
- Person B smells really, really bad. Rotting morbol bad.
- Person C's hand is not a hand at all and is actually an unadorned metal hook.
- Person D and E are whispering to each other in the background.
- Person F is eating an absurdly bright plate of food. Like, it looks like it might not actually be edible. But they're eating it.
- Person G is singing loudly and off-key to themself.
And so on and so on. An OOC tell allows the person an opportunity to fill you in on stuff like this, give a quick "last time on This Roleplay Scene", before you dive in - at least, when I get whispered like that, that's what I use it as a chance to do.
It just provides a better avenue for... well, communication. Of all kinds, I think. We don't have physreps in this medium, so we have to rely on text-based communications instead for the same information. And emoting it out creatively again and again and again gets tiresome for me to write and for the people I was already RPing with to read, trust me (as someone who plays a character who diverges from his in-game model).
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