Where is the FUN

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Now that is how to use a soap box!

The pattern card for Simon the Mime, was Testo, the first fully committed mime in TC...even on the message boards, he never broke character...always using smilies and character faces to communicate.

Some of the great rp's I remember....a former roomie created a male dressed in a brown uniform, with the name 'Verizon man' and dropped into random houses and said....."can you hear me now?"

A player dressed as a shirtless fat guy and called Homeless Bob, went around asking to sleep on peoples benches and doing the 'melt down' and 'heebie jeebies' interactions. He got booted a lot.

Some one dressed as Ma Hicks (offline game) who acted and talked like Maxine (from the greeting cards).

And lots of others. They tried to roleplay, but it is hard to spend enough hours on the game to skill &amp; make friends for the full set of interactions, while staying completely in character.

The early days of Betaville were full of totally dis-fun-ctional families, wild characters and hysterical family names.

One of the things I looked forward to with the merge and playing (when they fix it so we can play more than one at a time) multi-avatars in one city is the opportunity to make 'characters' out of secondary sims, that do not have to focus so on skilling and money making, but can just be funky and fun and silly.

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LOL Homeless Bob, poor guy LOL

Yes, funky, fun and silly!

 

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LOL how true this is. I have a male sim I play and he gets IM's from time to time and I just laugh if someone has a fetish for the cute cartoons just because of the way it looks. Its a damn cartoon for crying out loud. LOL... I never respond by anything more than a hello and if I get the kiddies who put in the ASL? I don't even answer.

[/ QUOTE ]I used to get ASL requests from time to time. I would just answer back, "85/M/Right Next Door". That usually stops the requests cold!

 

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The pattern card for Simon the Mime, was Testo, the first fully committed mime in TC...even on the message boards, he never broke character...always using smilies and character faces to communicate.

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I miss him.

 

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waaaay back in TSO after the last beta wipe .. the was a sim named silent fairy .. she did the same thing .. it was so cute

 

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LOL how true this is. I have a male sim I play and he gets IM's from time to time and I just laugh if someone has a fetish for the cute cartoons just because of the way it looks. Its a damn cartoon for crying out loud. LOL... I never respond by anything more than a hello and if I get the kiddies who put in the ASL? I don't even answer.

[/ QUOTE ]I used to get ASL requests from time to time. I would just answer back, "85/M/Right Next Door". That usually stops the requests cold!

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LMAO... now that is a good one that I have to remember. Just curious tho, what did they say after that if anything? hehehe

 

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So last night I found a house where people were actually role playing. For the first time since I came back to this game, I had FUN skilling! It was great! We ddn't use interactions much, just typed it in. I'll be going there more often, most definitely.

If people took the following mindset, I think the game would be more fun:

You ARE the SIM, the sim is NOT you. Wasn't that the whole premise of the game to begin with, that YOU are THE SIM? I never saw any adverts that said "The Sim becomes YOU".

If you see bugs, scream, freak out, be afraid of the bugs. You don't need the interaction to do that, just type it and run your sim all over the place. If you make HC, don't just type "HC Up!" dang, tell us what the heck you made!

You don't need to skill to get your interactions, just type it in, people will know what you're talking about. Getting a relating interaction is just a bonus. Use asteriks or dashes to seperate your actions from your words. Its not that hard. Have fun, get crazy, BE your SIM. Refer to yourself as "The Human", "My user", "my guardian" whatever you can come up with as an alternative for the RL you.

Just my two crowns worth. I'm done now, really. Hope you find the fun again, I found mine.

 

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Think the original saying is "Be Somebody Else"&gt;

Everyone's sim is a reflection of who they want to be in the game. Some people choose to be themselves.

 

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Think the original saying is "Be Somebody Else"&gt;

Everyone's sim is a reflection of who they want to be in the game. Some people choose to be themselves.

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Not "some", the majority. And too focused on money, just like RL. And now we have threads like this asking where all the fun is.

 

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Think the original saying is "Be Somebody Else"&gt;

Everyone's sim is a reflection of who they want to be in the game. Some people choose to be themselves.

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Not "some", the majority. And too focused on money, just like RL. And now we have threads like this asking where all the fun is.

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I have lots of fun making money. The people that work the job tracks are always cracking me up. Whether working in the diner or the robot factory, I always find myself quite amused.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;.............."

 

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Think the original saying is "Be Somebody Else"&gt;

Everyone's sim is a reflection of who they want to be in the game. Some people choose to be themselves.

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Not "some", the majority. And too focused on money, just like RL. And now we have threads like this asking where all the fun is.

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I have lots of fun making money. The people that work the job tracks are always cracking me up. Whether working in the diner or the robot factory, I always find myself quite amused.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;.............."

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Good for you!

Hardly anyone else seems to be having fun making 1 simoleon. Most won't even go to work. There's no money (ah, the focus on money again), they (generalizing again) don't want to play for fun.

Are you playing EA Land or TC3?

 

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Not "some", the majority. And too focused on money, just like RL. And now we have threads like this asking where all the fun is.


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If you played this game for a long time, you may remember a wonderful cross server trader that I worked with. I will not say his name because it would not be appropriate. This guy told me that he was in his 20's and in rl was "poor". In the game, he was a respected, rich, cross-server trader who continued to accrue simoleans and loved it. He felt rich and powerful and that was what he liked.

There are many ways that we like to have fun. The problem with this new game is that some of them have been made removed and not replaced with new game content. Yesterday, an old player came in to see me. She wanted to check out EA-Land and was on a free account. Her favorite thing to do was pet pulls. I realized how that is impossible now with the sell back feature removed. Since I never liked pet pulls, it hadn't even occurred to me until then.

Some people liked the casino objects and they are gone now.

So... if you like to be rich, the money object payouts have been lowered so much it is just about impossible to be rich. If you like pet pulls and gambling, you are screwed. Building is cost prohibitive. No new game content has been added other than a few custom content objects and this is not really game content. I am sure new things are coming but I don't know how many people will continue to pay to play in the current environment.

The bottom line is that you can't tell another person what is the "fun" way to play the game. Yet, it seems that EA is trying to tell us just that. I suspect a huge number of account changes from pay to free after amnesty unless there are big changes soon.

 

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...Her favorite thing to do was pet pulls. I realized how that is impossible now with the sell back feature removed. Since I never liked pet pulls, it hadn't even occurred to me until then.

Some people liked the casino objects and they are gone now.

So... if you like to be rich, the money object payouts have been lowered so much it is just about impossible to be rich. If you like pet pulls and gambling, you are screwed. Building is cost prohibitive. No new game content has been added other than a few custom content objects and this is not really game content. I am sure new things are coming but I don't know how many people will continue to pay to play in the current environment.


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Amen. RP goes only so far, for so many people (*holds thumb and forefinger to show 1 inch space*). Many aspects of the game that provided fun have been removed. There is a huge void where those aspects used to be.

I loved to RP owning a casino. Believe me, if you knew me in rl, you'd see just how much of a RPer I was, lol. It was nice to get to a point in the game where money was no object -- also so different from rl it was a form of RP, IMO. With the cash out being such a focus for EA, I can't see ever having fun with my nest egg in game again.

I wish I had a job in rl that paid mad money, so that I could come to the game and enjoy RP earning diddly squat...for fun.

 

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Not "some", the majority. And too focused on money, just like RL. And now we have threads like this asking where all the fun is.


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If you played this game for a long time, you may remember a wonderful cross server trader that I worked with. I will not say his name because it would not be appropriate. This guy told me that he was in his 20's and in rl was "poor". In the game, he was a respected, rich, cross-server trader who continued to accrue simoleans and loved it. He felt rich and powerful and that was what he liked.

There are many ways that we like to have fun. The problem with this new game is that some of them have been made removed and not replaced with new game content. Yesterday, an old player came in to see me. She wanted to check out EA-Land and was on a free account. Her favorite thing to do was pet pulls. I realized how that is impossible now with the sell back feature removed. Since I never liked pet pulls, it hadn't even occurred to me until then.

Some people liked the casino objects and they are gone now.

So... if you like to be rich, the money object payouts have been lowered so much it is just about impossible to be rich. If you like pet pulls and gambling, you are screwed. Building is cost prohibitive. No new game content has been added other than a few custom content objects and this is not really game content. I am sure new things are coming but I don't know how many people will continue to pay to play in the current environment.

The bottom line is that you can't tell another person what is the "fun" way to play the game. Yet, it seems that EA is trying to tell us just that. I suspect a huge number of account changes from pay to free after amnesty unless there are big changes soon.

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No, you can't tell anyone how to have fun, but you can offer options they may have not otherwise thought of.

I haven't played for a long time, I quit in 2003. I played Interhogan 99% of the time and only went to a few houses on a regular basis (the Guitar shaped house, the Windmill shaped house "Moulin Rouge" and the Millenium Falcon house). Because I'm anti-social and that was about as social as I wanted to make my sim. But, Angele, since you've played so long, you may remember the house "Flirty Something" and Sera Smyle. Sera Smyle and her house were around from Beta up until two or three years ago. I'm looking for people who remember.

I had fun with red balloons, I don't have that anymore, so I have to find another thing that I find fun. Adapt, adjust, find something new until your most favorite things come back (when and if they do). What I gave were suggestions and examples. Go ahead and try it out, or not, I don't care. Its pretty obvious from some of the postings after my original one, that role players were entertaining and brought fun to the game, even to those who didn't role play. So let the role players role play, participate if you've never done it before. You might like it, or at least be entertained by it. If not, then find something else that's fun. If you can't do that, leave the game for a while, yes, leave, why play a game where you can't find anything fun to do? Keep track of what's going on, then come back when your favorite fun things are fixed (if they ever come back). I find it pretty silly to pay for a game you no longer have fun with, so if players want to go to free play or leave the game, by all means, go for it. You shouldn't feel obligated to stay. There's other games out there you can take a break to, There, SL, heck even Furcadia! The being rich thing, maybe we need to change how we see "rich sims". Personally, if you've made it to the top of your sim job and have that shiney new blue green car (what is that, an Asten Martin or Rolls?), I would consider you pretty darn rich and powerful, even if you didn't have the funds attached to your account. Now if only they would make your car show up at other lots... Casino objects, okay, that plays to those who like gambling, there's other ways to gamble and people have become pretty darn creative with finding ways to do it and there's ways to simulate slot machines.

Dali: RPing goes as far as you and your friends want it to go. When you get bored, you can always change it up.

 

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If someone in a fairy outfit came into the house "sprinkling" fairy dust all over the place and talked about how the Queen of the Faries was getting married to the King of the Elves, would you (generalizng) not laugh or at least chuckle? Or would you say that person was crazy and then complain until that person was booted from the house?

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I'd chuckle along with them, and probably would not complain about it at all unless the person just took it wayyyyy in the opposite extreme, which by that I mean a person who not only talked that way in open chat, but in private chat also to the point that you couldn't really get to know the person underneath because of the facade. In either instance though I would not ask that the person be booted and banned from the house, I'd just in the worst case scenario use my own ignore feature. There's no reason to trample on anybody else's fun, as long as they're not trying to trample on mine.

But like I said above, I'd hope that the RPer could be free to be themselves in private chat and RP in open chat, because private chat, one on one, is when you really get to the heart and soul of people. I would hope that anybody who did not even let their guard down in private chat would be someone who was in the same situation you are in, that they *are* themselves on their other sims, and that is where they make their friends in-game, because I cannot imagine having stuck with this game as long as I have if I never made any friends who knew the *real* me.......in fact, I know I wouldn't still be here if I hadn't.

 

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If someone in a fairy outfit came into the house "sprinkling" fairy dust all over the place and talked about how the Queen of the Faries was getting married to the King of the Elves, would you (generalizng) not laugh or at least chuckle? Or would you say that person was crazy and then complain until that person was booted from the house?

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I'd chuckle along with them, and probably would not complain about it at all unless the person just took it wayyyyy in the opposite extreme, which by that I mean a person who not only talked that way in open chat, but in private chat also to the point that you couldn't really get to know the person underneath because of the facade. In either instance though I would not ask that the person be booted and banned from the house, I'd just in the worst case scenario use my own ignore feature. There's no reason to trample on anybody else's fun, as long as they're not trying to trample on mine.

But like I said above, I'd hope that the RPer could be free to be themselves in private chat and RP in open chat, because private chat, one on one, is when you really get to the heart and soul of people. I would hope that anybody who did not even let their guard down in private chat would be someone who was in the same situation you are in, that they *are* themselves on their other sims, and that is where they make their friends in-game, because I cannot imagine having stuck with this game as long as I have if I never made any friends who knew the *real* me.......in fact, I know I wouldn't still be here if I hadn't.

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In my experience, RPing doesn't extend to PMs often. There's only 3 reasons I can see why someone would extend to PMs.
1. They want to keep their anonymity, and I would hope people would respect that and not hate someone for it.
2. They want to keep in character, because they don't want to break the groove they're in (heck even famous actors get that way during breaks between filming scenes).
3. They're liars and manipulators, because they don't want to blow their cover or because you are a target.

Like I said though, most RPers I know, won't extend their acting to PM.

Trust your gut in figuring out who's who. Consider it a challenge or something, like looking for bugs in the game.

Just suggesting... everyone got that? I'm just suggesting, not telling people how to play, just giving options and info from my own experience. I'm not EA, I don't work for EA, nor am I an expert (afterall, who really is?) I'm just hoping some people will think outside the box.

 

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Trust your gut in figuring out who's who. Consider it a challenge or something, like looking for bugs in the game.

Just suggesting... everyone got that? I'm just suggesting, not telling people how to play, just giving options and info from my own experience. I'm not EA, I don't work for EA, nor am I an expert (afterall, who really is?) I'm just hoping some people will think outside the box.

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Oh I know what you mean...I guess I am just overly sensitive to it because I have been in RPE games, where if you didn't keep in the roleplay, you were 'jailed' and then in future offenses, banned, so I've seen the damage that can be caused from taking it too far, in addition to the experiences I've had in this game where one person was RPing and the other person was being real, and the one who was being real didn't know that the other person was just viewing it as a game, and ended up thinking of the RPer as a liar like you said but in some of those cases the RPer wasn't intending to be a liar or manipulative, they just simply didn't realize how it could be viewed as roleplay, especially if TSO was their first experience in the MMORPG world.

Honestly I do not believe TSO even truly belongs in that category besides the "Be Somebody. Else." slogan because this is a LIFE simulation game, not fantasy roleplay. But that's a whole nother can of worms lol I guess it got lumped into the RPG category because there really *is* no life simulation category, but it's definitely served as a misnomer for alot of people and lead to some broken hearts and hurt feelings. That was the reason for my disclaimer suggestion on the profile, which I could tell by your response you didn't like...LOL. Just to put all the cards out there on teh table so to speak so everybody's on the same page, but you never have to *break character* by saying it verbally when striking up a conversation with somebody. If people don't read profiles, that would be on them since they are available for anybody and everybody to see, right?

 

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Trust your gut in figuring out who's who. Consider it a challenge or something, like looking for bugs in the game.

Just suggesting... everyone got that? I'm just suggesting, not telling people how to play, just giving options and info from my own experience. I'm not EA, I don't work for EA, nor am I an expert (afterall, who really is?) I'm just hoping some people will think outside the box.

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Oh I know what you mean...I guess I am just overly sensitive to it because I have been in RPE games, where if you didn't keep in the roleplay, you were 'jailed' and then in future offenses, banned, so I've seen the damage that can be caused from taking it too far, in addition to the experiences I've had in this game where one person was RPing and the other person was being real, and the one who was being real didn't know that the other person was just viewing it as a game, and ended up thinking of the RPer as a liar like you said but in some of those cases the RPer wasn't intending to be a liar or manipulative, they just simply didn't realize how it could be viewed as roleplay, especially if TSO was their first experience in the MMORPG world.

Honestly I do not believe TSO even truly belongs in that category besides the "Be Somebody. Else." slogan because this is a LIFE simulation game, not fantasy roleplay. But that's a whole nother can of worms lol I guess it got lumped into the RPG category because there really *is* no life simulation category, but it's definitely served as a misnomer for alot of people and lead to some broken hearts and hurt feelings. That was the reason for my disclaimer suggestion on the profile, which I could tell by your response you didn't like...LOL. Just to put all the cards out there on teh table so to speak so everybody's on the same page, but you never have to *break character* by saying it verbally when striking up a conversation with somebody. If people don't read profiles, that would be on them since they are available for anybody and everybody to see, right?

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If those were the rules of the game, those were the rules, don't like it, don't play. Simple as that

. What "damage" are you speaking of? Are we talking real damage or hurt feelings? I mean honestly, I don't understand why people take their toons/avs/sims so seriously. Regardless of how long you've played, one day, its gonna be gone, pooof! Wiped off the internet and reduced to nothing but a fond (or not so fond) memory and dumped in the anals of wikipedia.

Please, ppl (generlizing again!), don't take the game so seriously. I beg you. I've actually witnessed someone kill themselves because their favorite gaming system shut down without warning, it was a BBS, everything was text, I can imagine how much further graphics can posssibly take someone and that's freakin' scary! If you're there now, or know someone there, intervention! No, seriously, gaming can be as addicting as alcohol and drugs, ya know, messes with those pesky dopamine umm thingies.

As for the ingame RP situation you witnessed, CB, did anyone bother to let the one not RPing know that the other WAS RPing? Or vice versa? Ya gotta help beginners out and give them a little slack. Clue them in if you recognize what's going on, like you clue in newbies to various aspects of the game and those who don't come to the message boards.

TSO is an MMORPG, yes life SIMULATION (ie not real, pretending, counterfeit, sham, kind of like-but not really). Just like Tabula Rasa is an MMORPG, a sci-fi/military SIMULATION, Pirates online is a MMORPG, a pirate/seafaring SIMULATION. This is why we can be revived if we die when someone dances around us, this is why when we fix things, lightening bolts come out of our hands, that doesn't happen in real life either. TSO definitely belongs in the MMORPG catagory and is a fantasy game and should be (my OPINION here, for those of you who wanna jump on me

) played the way it was intended, for players to "Be somebody. Else." (ie not yourself). Isn't that why we play games to begin with? To escape reality for a little while?

As for your disclaimer idea (too much reliance on disclaimers, look, even have one in my sig!), yeah, well, what happened to common sense? Its a game, why expect people to be themselves, in a ... game! But that's just me, I guess. I mean, if I were going to meet a group of people in RL, yeah, I'd expect them to be themselves (unless it was an LARP/RPG/SCA group). But for me to go into a game, and think everyone is going to be like they are in RL? That would be like me seeing Leonard Roberts from Heroes and expecting him to walk through walls in RL. I don't do that, never have, never will. Some of you might, hey, more power to ya. Where you, CB, think it would be the fault of the player for not reading a profile, I feel its the fault of the player for not realizing its a game. That's where we differ.

*putting on football pads and bracing myself* Okay! I'm ready!

Wait, this IS a game right? Right?! Isn't it?! Someone? Anyone? Bueller?

 

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I want to know where the fun is in the game now?

The devs have decided to slowly take any $ making opportunities away. They are now putting a cap on what we can earn. They have messed with log in to where many cannot get in the game, or can only play one of their sims.

And don't give me the garbage about bots. Bots are not ruined the game, it was the exploit that was not fixed for several months.

And get rid of the cash out feature. It's not worth the frustrations.

When there was mention of starting the game anew, I was excited because I thought they would introduce new items to interact with. But all we have is CC that just stands there and looks pretty.

I am becoming disheartened in this game very quickly. And don't tell me to go to free play. How will that help if I free play or cancel. They still lose my money, and if too many players do that: bye bye game.

When are the devs gonna actually start putting fun back into the game? If I wanted only a chat room for social, I can go to a free program to do that.

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Good Question ive been feeling this way for quite some time

 

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Trust your gut in figuring out who's who. Consider it a challenge or something, like looking for bugs in the game.

Just suggesting... everyone got that? I'm just suggesting, not telling people how to play, just giving options and info from my own experience. I'm not EA, I don't work for EA, nor am I an expert (afterall, who really is?) I'm just hoping some people will think outside the box.

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Oh I know what you mean...I guess I am just overly sensitive to it because I have been in RPE games, where if you didn't keep in the roleplay, you were 'jailed' and then in future offenses, banned, so I've seen the damage that can be caused from taking it too far, in addition to the experiences I've had in this game where one person was RPing and the other person was being real, and the one who was being real didn't know that the other person was just viewing it as a game, and ended up thinking of the RPer as a liar like you said but in some of those cases the RPer wasn't intending to be a liar or manipulative, they just simply didn't realize how it could be viewed as roleplay, especially if TSO was their first experience in the MMORPG world.

Honestly I do not believe TSO even truly belongs in that category besides the "Be Somebody. Else." slogan because this is a LIFE simulation game, not fantasy roleplay. But that's a whole nother can of worms lol I guess it got lumped into the RPG category because there really *is* no life simulation category, but it's definitely served as a misnomer for alot of people and lead to some broken hearts and hurt feelings. That was the reason for my disclaimer suggestion on the profile, which I could tell by your response you didn't like...LOL. Just to put all the cards out there on teh table so to speak so everybody's on the same page, but you never have to *break character* by saying it verbally when striking up a conversation with somebody. If people don't read profiles, that would be on them since they are available for anybody and everybody to see, right?

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If those were the rules of the game, those were the rules, don't like it, don't play. Simple as that

. What "damage" are you speaking of? Are we talking real damage or hurt feelings? I mean honestly, I don't understand why people take their toons/avs/sims so seriously. Regardless of how long you've played, one day, its gonna be gone, pooof! Wiped off the internet and reduced to nothing but a fond (or not so fond) memory and dumped in the anals of wikipedia.

Please, ppl (generlizing again!), don't take the game so seriously. I beg you. I've actually witnessed someone kill themselves because their favorite gaming system shut down without warning, it was a BBS, everything was text, I can imagine how much further graphics can posssibly take someone and that's freakin' scary! If you're there now, or know someone there, intervention! No, seriously, gaming can be as addicting as alcohol and drugs, ya know, messes with those pesky dopamine umm thingies.

As for the ingame RP situation you witnessed, CB, did anyone bother to let the one not RPing know that the other WAS RPing? Or vice versa? Ya gotta help beginners out and give them a little slack. Clue them in if you recognize what's going on, like you clue in newbies to various aspects of the game and those who don't come to the message boards.

TSO is an MMORPG, yes life SIMULATION (ie not real, pretending, counterfeit, sham, kind of like-but not really). Just like Tabula Rasa is an MMORPG, a sci-fi/military SIMULATION, Pirates online is a MMORPG, a pirate/seafaring SIMULATION. This is why we can be revived if we die when someone dances around us, this is why when we fix things, lightening bolts come out of our hands, that doesn't happen in real life either. TSO definitely belongs in the MMORPG catagory and is a fantasy game and should be (my OPINION here, for those of you who wanna jump on me

) played the way it was intended, for players to "Be somebody. Else." (ie not yourself). Isn't that why we play games to begin with? To escape reality for a little while?

As for your disclaimer idea (too much reliance on disclaimers, look, even have one in my sig!), yeah, well, what happened to common sense? Its a game, why expect people to be themselves, in a ... game! But that's just me, I guess. I mean, if I were going to meet a group of people in RL, yeah, I'd expect them to be themselves (unless it was an LARP/RPG/SCA group). But for me to go into a game, and think everyone is going to be like they are in RL? That would be like me seeing Leonard Roberts from Heroes and expecting him to walk through walls in RL. I don't do that, never have, never will. Some of you might, hey, more power to ya. Where you, CB, think it would be the fault of the player for not reading a profile, I feel its the fault of the player for not realizing its a game. That's where we differ.

*putting on football pads and bracing myself* Okay! I'm ready!

Wait, this IS a game right? Right?! Isn't it?! Someone? Anyone? Bueller?

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I'M CHEERING YOU ON KYLLIKKI!!! Got my pom-poms out for ya!

I haven't played in a while because I'm re-thinking my game plan for this game. GAME. It's a GAAMMMMMEEEEEE.

At first I wasn't playing because I got caught up on the whole "I'm trying to have fun but the economy is screwed so I'm not playing for a while" thing. Now I'm not playing because I want to come up with a fun sim, drop my identity and get into RPing, start over, start fresh. See if I can do something unique and creative. It's what I used to be good at, so, dammit, I'm going to try it again. It's why I started playing the game. I'm going to see if I can do it and be successful.

*links arms with Kyllikki*

Bring it on.

 

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LMAO... now that is a good one that I have to remember. Just curious tho, what did they say after that if anything? hehehe

[/ QUOTE ]Things that probably shouldn't be repeated here...

 

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If you see bugs, scream, freak out, be afraid of the bugs. You don't need the interaction to do that, just type it and run your sim all over the place. If you make HC, don't just type "HC Up!" dang, tell us what the heck you made!

[/ QUOTE ]My sim almost always freaks out when she sees mice or roaches. She also acts drunk and throws up after having too many of those "drinks".

Back when I had my Roadkill Cafe chain in JP and DG, I always made it a point to state exactly what it was I was serving. I even had a "Special of the Day".

Fun times, indeed.

 

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I agree 100% Kyllikki. Well said!

 

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I'M CHEERING YOU ON KYLLIKKI!!! Got my pom-poms out for ya!

I haven't played in a while because I'm re-thinking my game plan for this game. GAME. It's a GAAMMMMMEEEEEE.

At first I wasn't playing because I got caught up on the whole "I'm trying to have fun but the economy is screwed so I'm not playing for a while" thing. Now I'm not playing because I want to come up with a fun sim, drop my identity and get into RPing, start over, start fresh. See if I can do something unique and creative. It's what I used to be good at, so, dammit, I'm going to try it again. It's why I started playing the game. I'm going to see if I can do it and be successful.

*links arms with Kyllikki*

Bring it on.

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Whew, glad I wasn't sucked into an alternate reallity.

*does her best Cuba Gooding Jr impression in repy to Rafficat* Now that's what I'm talking about! That right there! That's exactly what I'm talking about! SHOW ME THE" ...oh, wait, lets not say the M word.


Kath: Bring it back bring it back! I'll have the minced possum with a piece of coon cake for dessert! What was that green stuff again?

Mooxi: I appreciate it!

*links arms with Rafficat and whispers* You really should have football pads on if you're gonna stand here with me, it could get a little rough.

 

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This whole discussion really centers around the various peoples bios that stated "Its only a game" or "real person behind this sim"
bottom line is its a game if you want it to be a game.....and its a chatroom if you want it to be a chatroom.
The game was origionally created based on a chatroom system called MIRC. There were no graphics, just a series of different houses, or rooms to visit.
some people were themselves, others pretended to be someone or something else.
I personally dont see anything wrong in either, just think that if you arent being yourself on there then you ought to say so.....So much drama caused by women pretending to be men and visa-versa.
Its quite possible to have fun in TSO (or whatever they like to call it now) either way, but i have to say its much harder now than it used to be as money DOES overule everything.
We used to be able to do almost anything we wanted, skill occasionally, make money occasionally, or have fun. Now simply to build and maintain a house, money making is everything. No time for anything else. Sad, but thats what its come to

 

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This whole discussion really centers around the various peoples bios that stated "Its only a game" or "real person behind this sim"
bottom line is its a game if you want it to be a game.....and its a chatroom if you want it to be a chatroom.
The game was origionally created based on a chatroom system called MIRC. There were no graphics, just a series of different houses, or rooms to visit.
some people were themselves, others pretended to be someone or something else.
I personally dont see anything wrong in either, just think that if you arent being yourself on there then you ought to say so.....So much drama caused by women pretending to be men and visa-versa.
Its quite possible to have fun in TSO (or whatever they like to call it now) either way, but i have to say its much harder now than it used to be as money DOES overule everything.
We used to be able to do almost anything we wanted, skill occasionally, make money occasionally, or have fun. Now simply to build and maintain a house, money making is everything. No time for anything else. Sad, but thats what its come to

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I remember mIRC. I would hang out on #undernet sometimes. During UO we were on the UO server. We had actions too, that we could do, outside of slapping someone with a trout, and not only with the /me command, haven't been on mIRC in forever, not since the final for UO. But mIRC was a chat, there were no games except for RPing and then eventually the bots you could program to keep your room open and play trivia, or give info based on key words, auto op the room members or whatever you wanted it to do. Our bot was called Penderwydd LOL

TSO is a game. Regardless if it was, indeed, based on mIRC. That'd be a cool interaction though, slapping someone with a trout LMAO! *ahem*

 

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Ahhh, Internet Relay Chat... One of, if not the oldest online chat systems in the world - predating the World Wide Web by a huge margin!

And, yet, I'm still on there almost constantly!

<font color="purple">Katheryne slaps Kyllikki around a while with a large trout. </font>
/me giggles.

 

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If those were the rules of the game, those were the rules, don't like it, don't play. Simple as that

. What "damage" are you speaking of? Are we talking real damage or hurt feelings? I mean honestly, I don't understand why people take their toons/avs/sims so seriously. Regardless of how long you've played, one day, its gonna be gone, pooof! Wiped off the internet and reduced to nothing but a fond (or not so fond) memory and dumped in the anals of wikipedia.

Please, ppl (generlizing again!), don't take the game so seriously. I beg you. I've actually witnessed someone kill themselves because their favorite gaming system shut down without warning, it was a BBS, everything was text, I can imagine how much further graphics can posssibly take someone and that's freakin' scary! If you're there now, or know someone there, intervention! No, seriously, gaming can be as addicting as alcohol and drugs, ya know, messes with those pesky dopamine umm thingies.

As for the ingame RP situation you witnessed, CB, did anyone bother to let the one not RPing know that the other WAS RPing? Or vice versa? Ya gotta help beginners out and give them a little slack. Clue them in if you recognize what's going on, like you clue in newbies to various aspects of the game and those who don't come to the message boards.

TSO is an MMORPG, yes life SIMULATION (ie not real, pretending, counterfeit, sham, kind of like-but not really). Just like Tabula Rasa is an MMORPG, a sci-fi/military SIMULATION, Pirates online is a MMORPG, a pirate/seafaring SIMULATION. This is why we can be revived if we die when someone dances around us, this is why when we fix things, lightening bolts come out of our hands, that doesn't happen in real life either. TSO definitely belongs in the MMORPG catagory and is a fantasy game and should be (my OPINION here, for those of you who wanna jump on me

) played the way it was intended, for players to "Be somebody. Else." (ie not yourself). Isn't that why we play games to begin with? To escape reality for a little while?

As for your disclaimer idea (too much reliance on disclaimers, look, even have one in my sig!), yeah, well, what happened to common sense? Its a game, why expect people to be themselves, in a ... game! But that's just me, I guess. I mean, if I were going to meet a group of people in RL, yeah, I'd expect them to be themselves (unless it was an LARP/RPG/SCA group). But for me to go into a game, and think everyone is going to be like they are in RL? That would be like me seeing Leonard Roberts from Heroes and expecting him to walk through walls in RL. I don't do that, never have, never will. Some of you might, hey, more power to ya. Where you, CB, think it would be the fault of the player for not reading a profile, I feel its the fault of the player for not realizing its a game. That's where we differ.

*putting on football pads and bracing myself* Okay! I'm ready!

Wait, this IS a game right? Right?! Isn't it?! Someone? Anyone? Bueller?

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I agree with you completely!!!
Yes, this is just a game and people should not confuse or compare it to RL. Our sims/ava's are nothing more than cartoons(pixels). In all actuallity, it's a game based on RP. I'm certainly not going to use my real name or create a model of myself. I have a bear, and an ape and girls with blond, red ,black and purple hair. I have an old man sim even and he goes around looking for his teef. Heck, people laugh and its fun. but the main point here is this is a fantasy game.

 

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I've played my Sims 2 the last couple of days and had a blast building the way I wanted to without worrying about how to find the money for it (motherlode indeed! haha)

 

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I'M CHEERING YOU ON KYLLIKKI!!! Got my pom-poms out for ya!

I haven't played in a while because I'm re-thinking my game plan for this game. GAME. It's a GAAMMMMMEEEEEE.

At first I wasn't playing because I got caught up on the whole "I'm trying to have fun but the economy is screwed so I'm not playing for a while" thing. Now I'm not playing because I want to come up with a fun sim, drop my identity and get into RPing, start over, start fresh. See if I can do something unique and creative. It's what I used to be good at, so, dammit, I'm going to try it again. It's why I started playing the game. I'm going to see if I can do it and be successful.

*links arms with Kyllikki*

Bring it on.

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Whew, glad I wasn't sucked into an alternate reallity.

*does her best Cuba Gooding Jr impression in repy to Rafficat* Now that's what I'm talking about! That right there! That's exactly what I'm talking about! SHOW ME THE" ...oh, wait, lets not say the M word.


Kath: Bring it back bring it back! I'll have the minced possum with a piece of coon cake for dessert! What was that green stuff again?

Mooxi: I appreciate it!

*links arms with Rafficat and whispers* You really should have football pads on if you're gonna stand here with me, it could get a little rough.

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I remember Roadkill Cafe! OMG that was an awesome place ... I went there when I first started playing, in my early days. Too fun!

*Whispers back to Kyllikki* I thought we were just pretending? Are people really going to start beating on me? Do you have some bactine on hand?

 

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I'M CHEERING YOU ON KYLLIKKI!!! Got my pom-poms out for ya!

I haven't played in a while because I'm re-thinking my game plan for this game. GAME. It's a GAAMMMMMEEEEEE.

At first I wasn't playing because I got caught up on the whole "I'm trying to have fun but the economy is screwed so I'm not playing for a while" thing. Now I'm not playing because I want to come up with a fun sim, drop my identity and get into RPing, start over, start fresh. See if I can do something unique and creative. It's what I used to be good at, so, dammit, I'm going to try it again. It's why I started playing the game. I'm going to see if I can do it and be successful.

*links arms with Kyllikki*

Bring it on.

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Whew, glad I wasn't sucked into an alternate reallity.

*does her best Cuba Gooding Jr impression in repy to Rafficat* Now that's what I'm talking about! That right there! That's exactly what I'm talking about! SHOW ME THE" ...oh, wait, lets not say the M word.


Kath: Bring it back bring it back! I'll have the minced possum with a piece of coon cake for dessert! What was that green stuff again?

Mooxi: I appreciate it!

*links arms with Rafficat and whispers* You really should have football pads on if you're gonna stand here with me, it could get a little rough.

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I remember Roadkill Cafe! OMG that was an awesome place ... I went there when I first started playing, in my early days. Too fun!

*Whispers back to Kyllikki* I thought we were just pretending? Are people really going to start beating on me? Do you have some bactine on hand?

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Shirl, you're absolutely right, RL and games should never be confused for one another or compared, well, unless you're trying to point out the difference between a game and RL

but yes, should never ever be confused.

*psst Rafficat* Well, you know we are, and I know we are. But they might not. Best be prepared for anything, like being slapped with a trout *sticks tongue out at Kath*. I have neosprorin and peroxide if you need it, no air freshener though, sorry.