Mooncalf wrote: Elijah Cole wrote:
I am sarcastic. Please don't be too offended by it. It is just a part of who I am.
Sarcasm is generally rude, and rudeness is against the rules.
I'd like to say that I would watch my
tone of my words, but that is hard to do in text.
Mooncalf wrote:I think that if you offer a role-play option and not a gaming option, then it should not be linked to grid play. So, in essence, you are telling me that I will need to log into the grid and move my character around just to participate in the roleplaying of the forums.
Is that correct?
Yes. You need to be visible on the grid (not in vacay mode), because roleplaying with a character that you have no option to attack if they piss you off (other than make-believe fighting through roleplay) isn't how the game works. There needs to be in-game consequences (and by extension roleplay consequences) to a character's actions. Path is built around this fundamental principle.
I can see your logic in this. I appreciate your input on the overall view of the world at hand for all characters within this city that has been quite interestingly created. I see that Humans are a different difficulty level that are, per prior statements, treated differently than Vampires. But let it be known, that when this happened, Elijah Cole was not in this ... Vacay Mode. He was simply not moved around on the grid because I did not realize that was necessary (which I have stated prior).
Mooncalf wrote:This character was not a Vampire. He is a human. There is no sire to factor into this equation. I never bothered to do much grid play, because quite frankly - I didn't think I had to. So, perhaps there should be a warning, a label, an -explicit- clarification on the screen that one has to choose game versus role playing.
Or... Did I miss that somewhere too?
I know he's a human. I was speaking generally about re-created deleted characters (characters deleted by yourself or due to inactivity). Humans don't have to worry about finding the same sire, obviously.
You do not have to play on the grid, exactly. You just need to be active on the grid, so merely logging into the grid once every few days will enable you to continue roleplaying. We haven't said that anywhere yet because it's not yet something we'd programmed. The only consequence right at this moment of not logging into the grid is that inactive characters get deleted after 3 months.
I understand and respect that you disagree with some or all of this, but this is how Path works.
Yes, I do have to play on the grid - exactly. And that is my point. That is the point that you've tried to make here. You want grid play, even though you have a Role Playing option under your initial set up for any character upon registration. I did not know, and if it were in the rules - excuse me, that I
had to log into the
grid and not the
forum because that was where it was designated to play.
So yes, you want grid play. Whether that is moving a character from one square to the next or leveling, or hacking, or stealing, or killing Zombies, or picking up wrist watches, or buying a lottery ticket - you want action.
And quite specifically, your three month rule does not even
APPLY to my human character. So therefor, I find fault with this entire initial issue of my character being deleted. I knew about the three month rule. I knew that Elijah Cole had been inactive in the
forum for a while. If I knew he was required, of this so-called-formula, to actually log into the grid and play - then that would have been NO PROBLEM.
Further more, as I certainly do appreciate Zelda's input - let me just say that yes, we do have our characters together. Yes, they do engage in 18+ Role Play. Yes, they are played out with history, plot lines, and naughty little bits. Elijah Cole would have been more active if we could have posted our live chats to the board.
But you know what, this all could have been avoided if there were specific expectations made for Human characters and their still required grid play.
