Alternate Characters Abuse

I think, if we went with the ratio, it'd be worth fleshing out to a higher extent, but I think that'd be a good baseline to start off of. Of course, this system would require factions to actually keep track of resources and wealth to a much more specific amount, which most factions don't really do, so..

 

Technically, it is mandatory, but I've yet to see a faction do it, or do it well. I could be wrong, but to my knowledge, only the RA ever did such a thing.

 

In my experience, the actual need for this isn't really required. Avoid players and characters you don't have fun interacting with. If ultimately you don't enjoy how the majority of the server runs militia forces, then find another sort of roleplay to indulge in. If a ton of people enjoy throwaways, who are you to dictate the kind of fun those people are allowed to have?

 

The problem with this is that a good portion of the time, you can't decide to ignore people. We'll take the Outcasts, for example, who have a system regarding their attacks. When a situation merits it, they move onto a planet and harass, and players in the area are brought in. Simply walking away from a guy with a gun in your face is bad roleplay, and if you pull out the consent shield every time you get into trouble, then you gain a bad reputation OOC, as well as disrupting roleplay.
Avoiding and ignoring factions/characters is generally bad roleplay, and is harmful to the server as it splits the community up in even smaller fractions than it already is.

 

You're ignoring the fact that you have a colony, advertised as a Hylotl colony, that openly allows Florans to walk about in a sector where Florans who like to eat Hylotl are the current dominant militant force. That's like walking down the wrong alley with a bag full of expensive electronics. It is an invitation for trouble, and whining to a moderator does not let you overcome IC consequence.

What is truly disgusting is that all these players who didn't like how the conflict went decided to void everything, using the fact that 10 blocks and a few chairs / a table was destroyed (literally a 30 second repair job) and claimed it was OOC griefing. It's like the era of the old USCM who would void all conflict that did not go their way, all over again.

 

Nobody has a problem with people being violent on the colony, people have a problem with shitty rp, like magically pulling an already pin pulled grenade from your pocket, whilst holding a two handed weapon, and detonating it ignoring all the people trying to stop you

 

Basically this.

Ninja Edit: At least those of us that don't want to BS out of any and all conflict via OOC consent blockage.

 

Not just manpower. We need more fuel depots.

 

I can post plenty productive ideas. I just chose not to. Now I'm offended by your internet opinion. I'll take my productive ideas elsewhere.

 

Don't ask for criticism on an idea and then immediately post something like this.

However, other than that completely legitimate point which you don't want to hear for whatever reason, howabout this, yo?
If the consent rule remains as it currently stands - and something like this were enacted, it would just lead to more people crying about how they don't want their characters to die - not only because now they lose that character and their experiences with that character, but because they will effectively be locked out of playing on the server until a character that can replace them is accepted.

bad idea 0/10.

 

In general, this is common sense and shouldn't require a rule because if somebody is doing that - they're just a bad RPer.
In specific scenarios - like the massacre at Port Last, those sorts of cannon fodder alts are necessary for atmosphere. If that fight had gone on for two days with nobody dying then it would have been absolute shit.

 

Again, yo.
This does not require a rule. This requires shaming individual players who try to abuse the system as it stands.

 

Anyway, the real killer to this idea is that it doesn't actually stop people from making awful characters.

"But Sen, if their characters do not match their application, you've stopped an awful character!"

And how do you catch someone not roleplaying their applied character? Through ingame monitoring; the exact same ingame monitoring that already exist regardless of whether character applications do or do not exist.

edit: aka, just read jim's post above me