As a tangent, I was sad to see the "IM address" option on the profiles. To me, communication via IM is meta-gaming and should be discouraged.
Cydrik
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I'd argue none of the current prediction tools are complex at all, merely written in Klingon. -- Armifer
JMWYLIE
DWARB-POWER
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 12:10 AM CDT
It's an option.
You can choose to use it or not.
- Simon
You can choose to use it or not.
- Simon
JMF90
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 12:26 AM CDT
>As a tangent, I was sad to see the "IM address" option on the profiles. To me, communication via IM is meta-gaming and should be discouraged.
I agree, but I feel it's necessary the way most IG communication is gimped.
I agree, but I feel it's necessary the way most IG communication is gimped.
IDONS-BUDDY
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 12:28 AM CDT
I don't mind it because sometimes you just want to contact the player about something.
Rev. Reene
Hrethgar says to you, "And on a side note, I find your gender bending experiments both hilarious and educational."
Ventuul says to you, "I believe this is why you have trouble at social gatherings."
Rev. Reene
Hrethgar says to you, "And on a side note, I find your gender bending experiments both hilarious and educational."
Ventuul says to you, "I believe this is why you have trouble at social gatherings."
TYGOR
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 12:31 AM CDT
>>I don't mind it because sometimes you just want to contact the player about something.
This ^-
This ^-
ROBERTDH
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 01:22 AM CDT
Half the fun of RPG gaming sometimes is geeking out behind the scenes with lots of inane commentary between players.
"...I am inclined to think the focus of the [Warmage's] spellbook should be ways to make things explode, to help you make things explode, or to assist your victim in exploding." -Armifer
"...I am inclined to think the focus of the [Warmage's] spellbook should be ways to make things explode, to help you make things explode, or to assist your victim in exploding." -Armifer
ROCKYWILLIAMS1479
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 01:39 AM CDT
<<Half the fun of RPG gaming sometimes is geeking out behind the scenes with lots of inane commentary between players.>>
I agree completely :)
DRPrime - Celeres Turrance
I agree completely :)
DRPrime - Celeres Turrance
DEVAN
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 02:35 AM CDT
>>I don't mind it because sometimes you just want to contact the player about something.
This, basically. Considering all the righteous, "If you gwethsmash, you should explain yourself!" chatter in conflicts, well, now you have a vector.
Besides, you should recognize your fellow text-buddies as human beings, too. Makes it easier to troll them.
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"Close your eyes -
For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin
This, basically. Considering all the righteous, "If you gwethsmash, you should explain yourself!" chatter in conflicts, well, now you have a vector.
Besides, you should recognize your fellow text-buddies as human beings, too. Makes it easier to troll them.
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"Close your eyes -
For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin
CEMM
Re: Profile IM Address
08/04/2009 09:18 AM CDT
<<I don't mind it because sometimes you just want to contact the player about something.
Exactly.
Exactly.