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miasma_hemlock · 04-17-08, 05:37 PM

This kind of worries me. I always thought I was a decent enough roleplayer, but the character approval process just kills me. It kills my creativity, because I know if I take any chances besides the most obvious choices for her story it will raise red flags. Even now I have an idea for a halfling cleric I'd love to be playing here but I just can't bring myself to spend an afternoon writing her back story, then hoping for approval. So I just lurk in the forums instead. I can't imagine I'm the only person who would be turned off by not only having to go through and approval process, but paying for the privelege.

The thing is of course most people playing here now would like character approvals, but really, isn't that a chicken and egg thing in some ways? As in no one who wouldn't go for an approval process like this would be here, because they've already passed on Layonara. I know I've tried to get a few real life friends to play and they've all said forget it and "why should I go through that", and these are other improv actress/renaissance faire freaks like me who may have been a lot of fun here. I resisted too, it's only because an old boyfriend was a player here who insisted that I give it a try that I got hooked (and to be honest he wrote my original character application..!)

I would imagine there's lots of others who don't come from a tabletop D&D environment like so many people here seem to who are turned off by the paperwork. And being exclusionary and creating a private club environment works for a free server with limited capacity like this, but I don't know how far it can really scale up. As excited as I am to play the next version of Layonara I don't even know if I would want to pay if the approval and CDQ processes are like they are now.

I don't know, I really think peer pressure might be enough, as well as guilds and religions and any other in game organizations having rules and requirements for their members, and other in-game things that serve to flesh out the world, bring people together in groups and set high standards. Anyway it's not like all of World of Warcraft is going to immediately rush over who you open your doors... Or will they?

04-17-08, 05:37 PM	#14
miasma_hemlock Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 46 Thanks: 2 Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts	Re: MMO and character approvals This kind of worries me. I always thought I was a decent enough roleplayer, but the character approval process just kills me. It kills my creativity, because I know if I take any chances besides the most obvious choices for her story it will raise red flags. Even now I have an idea for a halfling cleric I'd love to be playing here but I just can't bring myself to spend an afternoon writing her back story, then hoping for approval. So I just lurk in the forums instead. I can't imagine I'm the only person who would be turned off by not only having to go through and approval process, but paying for the privelege. The thing is of course most people playing here now would like character approvals, but really, isn't that a chicken and egg thing in some ways? As in no one who wouldn't go for an approval process like this would be here, because they've already passed on Layonara. I know I've tried to get a few real life friends to play and they've all said forget it and "why should I go through that", and these are other improv actress/renaissance faire freaks like me who may have been a lot of fun here. I resisted too, it's only because an old boyfriend was a player here who insisted that I give it a try that I got hooked (and to be honest he wrote my original character application..!) I would imagine there's lots of others who don't come from a tabletop D&D environment like so many people here seem to who are turned off by the paperwork. And being exclusionary and creating a private club environment works for a free server with limited capacity like this, but I don't know how far it can really scale up. As excited as I am to play the next version of Layonara I don't even know if I would want to pay if the approval and CDQ processes are like they are now. I don't know, I really think peer pressure might be enough, as well as guilds and religions and any other in game organizations having rules and requirements for their members, and other in-game things that serve to flesh out the world, bring people together in groups and set high standards. Anyway it's not like all of World of Warcraft is going to immediately rush over who you open your doors... Or will they? Last edited by miasma_hemlock : 04-17-08 at 05:50 PM.