You do not a string of ‘attempts to’ to show intent or lack of intent.
A string of,
“J attempts to jump.”
“J attempts to strike N”
“J attempts to hit N with a sword”
Etc etc which is a remarkable common and dull way of writing an emote.
Anybody can work out “X swings sword at Ns leg” (as a very basic emote) doesn’t dedicate an outcome, gives ample room to manavure for both parties and allows the action to stop or be blocked and/or prevented. Which has always been the point, to not dictate an outcome. You can do that without writing ‘attempts’ or ‘tries’ in every single thing.
You gotta have to pick, is it one emote or multiple emotes? It’s difficult to provide a clear answer if you move the goalpost.
In any case, if a player keeps spamming attempts it’s basically what I said: they failed to define their intent. Once two players have aligned their interest on ‘all emotes are attempts’ they indeed don’t need it anymore. The first one is still necessary.
Once again, it has nothing to do about well constructed emotes, or writing style, it’s just a failure to communicate.
All the drama generated from emotes which didn’t specify the attempt disagree.
As a rule of thumb, if you have to generalize with “anybody” or “everybody”, it’s probably wrong.
People using would to declare intent as well as past tense in emotes are on my pet peeves list.
It’s not.
“Elfculler attempts to slice Ricky’s leg off with his axe” is the same as “Elfculler swings his axe at Ricky’s leg to slice it off” or “Elfculler swings his axe to slice Ricky’s leg off”. All of these 100% convey an attempt and I always strive to omit the would//tries to/attempts to/if/etc. chicanery to keep my messages within the default text limit and not abuse an addon to accommodate my shortcomings in grammar.
Yup. It’s always worth remembering that you don’t owe anybody your time and they don’t owe you theirs. Unless they’re (they referring to the alleged ‘bad RPers’) doing something that breaks the rules or is otherwise offensive, they have the same rights to any public space in the game as the rest of us.
As for people using terms like attempts/tries/whatever, I don’t really have an issue. They can make sentences read awkwardly but it’s completely benign otherwise.
Judiciary’s hijack-that-wasn’t-really-a-hijack post further above is probably the best answer to the thread topic itself. People tie themselves into knots constantly frustrating themselves with roleplay that they don’t like, even when it has nothing to do with them.
I’ve had someone tag me multiple times, constantly pinging me in Discord, each time an emote did not have an ‘attempt’ emoted in.
There was no god emoting involved, they just contantly screencapped and pinged me every single emote that did not include ‘attempts to’ or ‘tries to’.
Social Situation. Make some excuse like “I need to see to my horse.” and leave.
Combat Situation. You can only cut your losses and leave OOC. Cause this person has likely already annoyed you to the point you don’t want to give them a victory IC by retreating IC.
