ooc chattiness

[Theillik]

I just want to know what the opinion is on this:

We have a tendency to speak OOC when we need to leave or make a mistake in our typing, etc. I find this interrupts the flow of the roleplay and adds confusion.


I have some suggestions that could cut down on OOC chat:

-trust our fellow gamers to be able to see a blatant typo and read the sentence properly
-let the typos happen and correct it ICly:) this is always fun
-give IC excuses for leaving a scene, instead of OOC excuses



I just think these things could help people stay in character and help the flow of the game. Feel free to give other suggestions.

[Zach]

I FULLY agree with you Theillik... about the gramer and spelling typos... we all make them... some of us more then others... we are human typing... so there will be errors in gramer and spwelling...

But about leaving... if you are in a heated RP and your mom is threatening you with your life.... or girlfriend/boyfriend to get off the computer or you'll be on the coutch for a week... it is not really IC to be like... "well i'm tired... c ya" or something on those lines... but you can make up an IC excuse... but OOC people are like WTF... so the OOC i like... but that might be ONLY my opinion

[Kirkus]

I completely agree with you Zach. There are plenty of times when you need to quickily log off the mudd, and that rarely helps rp, being rushed. The ooc exit actually gives room for the rp to be picked up at a later time.

[Kregor]

Sometimes, osay may be required... in an urgent situation, say your kid falls off a chair and starts spurting blood, I would think the other players in an RP would appreciate a quick 3 or 4 word osay as to why one would type "quit" and drop their computer, other than making the assumption said person was just quitting the RP.

There's a time and a place for osay, if there wasn't it would have been disabled like many of the other channel commands were in FK.

[Mele]

http://www.forgottenkingdoms.com/board/ ... typo+typos

Here. :)
(If my kid was splurting blood, I'd probably not even bother to type quit. :P)

-Danica

[Theillik]

Sometimes, osay may be required... in an urgent situation.

I didn't want to go into all this in my first, post but I do agree with this and with what Zach said. There are emergencies which have no choice, but many times, people osay "I'm tired." and log off.

In these situations, a IC excuse could be given.

That was a good post Mele! Thanks for digging that up!:D

[Zach]

also... if you just leave and not come back... the people you are RPing with will wait for you to come back... waisting good rp time... and then... there you are...waiting in the ER room with your kid who has dry blood on them waiting to be seen and the others are going "no... just give it a few more minutes... she'll be back"

[Mele]

Uh...

Bleeding kid > Good RP time.

Gee.. I'd hate to inconvenience someone's RP because my child was hurt IRL... O.O

That's a BIT MUCH there..

Even if I just had a puking child I'm not sure how much notice I'd give. So people wait. You come back, you explain, people understand. By no means does anyone owe anyone an osay for a legit emergency.

-Danica

[Zach]

my kid chopped off his left foot once... still stayed tell the end of the RP ... NO EXCUSES!!!!

(hehe just playing)

[Raona]

If I may broaden Theillik's original question and make of it an observation with an implied rhetorical question...attitudes towards OOC seem to vary WIDELY from person to person. Scenario: someone pops into the room, entering the game. Player 1 wants to ignore it, as if it never happened, and carry on with the heated RP (for example, a raising) that was in progress. Player 2 says OOC "Something serious is going on here, please don't interupt." Player 3 goes further, starting an OOC conversation along the lines of "You really ought not to quit here, this is a well-travelled place." The blurter replies "I know, but my computer died on me last night, and..." and when this discussion is finally done, Player 3 returns to the IC discussion as if nothing had happened. But Player 1 is now peeved, saying "Can the OOC! Stay IC!" and feeling as though his RP has been ruined.

The question: is one of these folks right and another wrong? Or are OOC preferencess just part of the sensibilities we need to learn in our fellow players? (I've learned some players hate OOC so much that I never use it around them.)

[Mariela]

I love how when stated, people came up with bodily hard to children as an excuse to a situation when you would just abandon the computer. Most mom's I know would practially upright the computer table if it was life and death.. screw logging off. They probably killed the computer in the mad dash for kid to prevent more harm or harm to the furniture, ect.

Emergencies are emergencies.


I think the important part to realize is that FK like all good forms of entertainment is merely a game. OOC communication CAN be important but it is not the be all end all. I personally LOATH knowing things OOCly about people. I don't come online to find a fullfilling friendly relationship with other people. If I wanted that, I'd go to a bar and find more friends to eat up my time. No. I just want to relax and throw myself into a story.

So to me, the ooc for ANYTHING drives my brain crazy. It is no fun for me to hear that you realize you misspelled Crazy cause it doesn't have a K, or that your kid is crying or that you have to go to work, ect.

I don't care.

What I do care about is making things plausible. If you don't exit yourself, I will exit you for you. I make up stuff for people's there and then gone all the time. You know, Daylahn dissapears cause his player goes link dead, he obviously left to get Mariela a drink of water. Or because he had an appointment with his temple. And so forth...

Mariela has a habit of looking up at the sky and going, "Oh! Is that the time.." and then running off towards an "Appointment" she forgot about. Being absent mindedish in character sometimes is a benefit.

What absolutely kills me are the players who talk oocly as they talk icly. JUST SAY IT IN CHARACTERLY! If it is something your character would ask because they are new ASK! No one has all the answers. Lud! Do not be so afraid to walk right up to that big Knight Andreas and ask him if it rains as hard up there as it does down at us 4' 2 people! (Ok, maybe not that dumb but still.) It kills me when the screen is mostly oocly comments about somethign that could be easily discussed icly. Or people who make suggestions to other people oocly when they could make them icly.

Gosh, I wish I had a good example,but if I do see another good example of this, I will cut and paste it here. Lud! Gets my goose everytime.