[A / 8.3 themed Riot RP] Hysteria 👁 - 6th of Feb

[Wrizzy-argent-dawn]

The entire event feels uncomfortable as it is unfolding right now. The intention to play out hysteria is interesting, but the resulting mob mentality is causing a lot of foul players to jump the bandwagon and bring out the worst kind of roleplay right now.

[Belok-argent-dawn (Belok)]

turns out i can attend if a little late, HOORAH

[Ohlin-argent-dawn (Ohlin)]

Not subbed atm but kind of wish I was for this. Feel free to give a void elf an extra punch from me.

Give 'em hell boys and girls.

[Dogthíng-argent-dawn]

It’s just uncontrolled chaos for the sake of uncontrolled chaos.

Sure, it creates RP. But it’s not RP that will last or that achieves anything.

What that means is the riot could never have happened, and everything will be pretty much the same tomorrow as if it did.

Chaos for the sake of chaos.

[Aerilen-argent-dawn (Aerilen)]

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

Sure, it creates RP. But it’s not RP that will last or that achieves anything.

That is entirely down to the roleplayer to be honest, if you take part and disregard it from then on then it’s on you to be fair. Roleplay is what you make of it, if your character goes on to have more sympathies with this ‘riot’ or gains some resentment against their bigotry then there is character development for you.

[Belok-argent-dawn (Belok)]

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

Sure, it creates RP. But it’s not RP that will last or that achieves anything

the important thing is what it does for the characters involved (those who are not throwaways) whether it achieves anything or not, so this is kind of an ignorant statement

[Témpercoil-argent-dawn]

Seeing roleplayers attempting to ruin the event really makes me scared for the future of AD…Is it really all second life rp and Dolmio sauce?

[Dogthíng-argent-dawn]

95% of the riot is throwaways. And looking across at the characters that aren’t, they’re not actually involved. They’re just chilling in the background like myself.

I don’t think anyone with a character that isn’t throwaway is actually participating actively.

[Fireblush-argent-dawn]

Stop RPing INSTANTLY! I cannot play my void elf e-gf simulator with all these /YELLS!!!

[Dogthíng-argent-dawn]

Let’s be honest here, you’d need a throwaway character to actually ICly believe marching on the Embassy & the Cathedral are plausible methods of enacting political change.

I don’t think anyones permanent character is that ignorant ICly.

[Crowton-argent-dawn (Crowton)]

If only you could RP in-game, Dogthing, instead of complaining on the forums… I’m pretty sure you just stood around awkwardly and then ran away after you got emoted at.

[Dogthíng-argent-dawn]

I can’t RP in the spam, it’s true.

[Gavinradblin-argent-dawn]

Then thin the herd they may be throwaways but that’s the point. It’s to give you SOMETHING to do! You can KILL EM. That option EXISTS

[Youngstorm-turalyon]

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

It’s just uncontrolled chaos for the sake of uncontrolled chaos.

the point of a riot

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

Sure, it creates RP. But it’s not RP that will last or that achieves anything.

like all rp ever done then

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

What that means is the riot could never have happened, and everything will be pretty much the same tomorrow as if it did.

like many memorable events in ADs history

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

Chaos for the sake of chaos.

yeah see: riot

[Elyrius-argent-dawn]

@Dogthíng-argent-dawn

Let’s be honest here, you’d need a throwaway character to actually ICly believe marching on the Embassy & the Cathedral are plausible methods of enacting political change.

I don’t think anyones permanent character is that ignorant ICly.

You’re complaining about roleplay on a roleplaying server and making complaints about irrelevant points. Perhaps if you don’t like roleplay actually occurring, you should move to one of the quieter (dead) servers for you to RP with precisely 0x people and experience 0x large-scale events

[Highonacid-kazzak]

Although the concept of a riot was really great and suits the 8.3 climate, it seemed a bit too chaotic (in a bad sense, a riot should be chaotic by nature to some extend of course).

The spam was probably a bit too much. It didn’t allow to actually properly reply / RP and interact with the crowd, as the chat was far too filled. I am not sure if the numbers were too high / the amount of people spamming yells were too much. If we had more time to reply and emote in regards to the mob, then that would’ve been great.

Not sure how to translate it into the future, but maybe downscale the amount of yells happening (not necessarily the amount of players).

[Dogthíng-argent-dawn]

I think that’s kind of my point. If someone did [quote=“Youngstorm-turalyon, post:260, topic:123839”]

Sure, it creates RP. But it’s not RP that will last or that achieves anything.

like all rp ever done then
[/quote]

I feel sorry for the RP you get involved in if it offers 0 character progression.

@Youngstorm-turalyon

It’s just uncontrolled chaos for the sake of uncontrolled chaos.

the point of a riot

Wrong.

@Elyrius-argent-dawn

You’re complaining about roleplay

I’m complaining about the execution of an “organised” event. Not the production of RP, I applaud perroy’s effort of creating a server-wide event on AD.

Edit: I’ll fix this post later.

[Highonacid-kazzak]

Not hating on the idea at all by saying that, as I really like the idea of riots. But it was just difficult to actually RP with the mob due to the spam overwhelming the chat.

[Firescope-argent-dawn]

In fairness, way more people showed up for the riot than was anticipated. But I do agree that the yelling got a bit too much. It’s hard to control, though, even with half the people it would still be.

[Obilot-argent-dawn (Obilot)]

I think the point is that you make the lasting RP yourself.