Path of the Vampire forum

Azraeth wrote:I don't view enforcing OOC collaboration as harming the grid, PVP, or interaction. If anything, people are more likely, in my experience, to engage in PVP if they have a choice in the matter. The numerous MMORPGS with healthy PVP communities, which have entirely optional PVP are more than enough proof of that.

Path is meant to be roleplay-centric. RP is an interactive hobby, not a reactive hobby. Players talking is how the system should work.

Mooncalf wrote: I don't think that's true about most of the hardcore roleplayers here at all. I think they are just more interested in roleplay than they are waking up to find their characters dead. Many gamers seem to me to be the ones interested primarily in winning, and anyone standing against them becomes the enemy OOC. That to me is a far more insular bubble than the one the hardcore roleplayers limit themselves to.

It boils down to what kind of game do I want this to be? RBC? WoW? Or a roleplay-centric game where collaboration and contributing to an overall grand story is encouraged, rather than OOC drama? I've said for a long time now that Path will be going more roleplay-centric, and this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. When I first made the game I set it up to be half and half, but I've seen that doesn't marry too well. The nature of Path is that it's a roleplay-centric game which attracts more roleplayers than gamers (see the stats page), and so it simply makes sense to make it more roleplay-centric.

The unique feature of the game is really the chapters and similar story events, and that, again, lends itself to roleplay more than it does grinding. Some gamer-centric players play out the chapters with things such as XP optimisation and power growth in mind. That's not the intention of Path's core feature.

Doc wrote:I didn't see this question addressed..

Powers. Powers are based on PXP. You earn PXP by keeping your character at or above 10bp.

If a character never plays on the grid, does that mean they never earn powers?

Mooncalf wrote:Imagine the following:

- That it's possible to gain blood, loot, daily PXP, etc. all by posting roleplay on the forum.

Azraeth wrote:I don't view enforcing OOC collaboration as harming the grid, PVP, or interaction. If anything, people are more likely, in my experience, to engage in PVP if they have a choice in the matter. The numerous MMORPGS with healthy PVP communities, which have entirely optional PVP are more than enough proof of that.

Path is meant to be roleplay-centric. RP is an interactive hobby, not a reactive hobby. Players talking is how the system should work.