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Hey!
I come to you with a discussion initiator. Something I've been wondering...
Imagine the following:
There's you and two other players that almost always come online during weekdays, but are always occupied during weekends. When you're online, there's at the most 8 other people online, on a good day.
Now, you roleplay in the same world as every other roleplays in. The three of you have roleplayed for hours on end and have enjoyed a lot of character development. So much, in fact, that you've gotten to the point of owning your own land ICly. You might roleplay as an evil faction and you might have access to magic or another form of power with which you can taint the land.
Now imagine this:
There is about 50 people online on a good saturday and sunday night, when timezones of Europe and America overlap in both territories having free time to spend behind their computer. All these people roleplay in the same world as the three that they are totally oblivious of.
This means that their characters breath the same air as the three I described above, and should in theory be able to interact with each other or at least have indirect effects on another. The three will be subjugated to changes in politics or even deaths from the other 50, yet they have never met OOCly and might not even know each other's username.
I see this posing significant problems.
One problem, which is the same for the difference between people that have an onlinetime of 10 hours a week and people with 1 hour a week, is that their characters develop faster and might have more strength in certain areas. While the other doesn't know about it at all and might call PowerGaming, just cause they don't know about each other.
Second problem is that these three live in as good as a second reality / in another dimension as the people online in the weekends. While there might be a thorough hate between the Elves and Dwarves characters during weekdays, the Altera in weekends shows a compassion of both races to each other, just cause the Dwarf-population consists of an entirely different set of characters.
Third problem, as subproblem of the second: With multiple dimensions in the same world (yet tied to the same lore): don't we have multiple different Altera's? Perhaps this problem is the very fundament of a lot of disagreeing over the views characters have on the world and the races that live herein, as well as over the legitimateness of claims of territories, political status, and particular skill of characters.
I'm not sure how to tackle such problems.
I don't know if we should even try.
But I wanted to throw it out there and see how you people look at these 'problems'.
What do you think, and does it really matter in the end in your perspective?
I truly think this is interesting and would love to have some discussion about it, as it isn't a very tangible subject and hasn't been addressed so far as I am aware.
I come to you with a discussion initiator. Something I've been wondering...
Imagine the following:
There's you and two other players that almost always come online during weekdays, but are always occupied during weekends. When you're online, there's at the most 8 other people online, on a good day.
Now, you roleplay in the same world as every other roleplays in. The three of you have roleplayed for hours on end and have enjoyed a lot of character development. So much, in fact, that you've gotten to the point of owning your own land ICly. You might roleplay as an evil faction and you might have access to magic or another form of power with which you can taint the land.
Now imagine this:
There is about 50 people online on a good saturday and sunday night, when timezones of Europe and America overlap in both territories having free time to spend behind their computer. All these people roleplay in the same world as the three that they are totally oblivious of.
This means that their characters breath the same air as the three I described above, and should in theory be able to interact with each other or at least have indirect effects on another. The three will be subjugated to changes in politics or even deaths from the other 50, yet they have never met OOCly and might not even know each other's username.
I see this posing significant problems.
One problem, which is the same for the difference between people that have an onlinetime of 10 hours a week and people with 1 hour a week, is that their characters develop faster and might have more strength in certain areas. While the other doesn't know about it at all and might call PowerGaming, just cause they don't know about each other.
Second problem is that these three live in as good as a second reality / in another dimension as the people online in the weekends. While there might be a thorough hate between the Elves and Dwarves characters during weekdays, the Altera in weekends shows a compassion of both races to each other, just cause the Dwarf-population consists of an entirely different set of characters.
Third problem, as subproblem of the second: With multiple dimensions in the same world (yet tied to the same lore): don't we have multiple different Altera's? Perhaps this problem is the very fundament of a lot of disagreeing over the views characters have on the world and the races that live herein, as well as over the legitimateness of claims of territories, political status, and particular skill of characters.
I'm not sure how to tackle such problems.
I don't know if we should even try.
But I wanted to throw it out there and see how you people look at these 'problems'.
What do you think, and does it really matter in the end in your perspective?
I truly think this is interesting and would love to have some discussion about it, as it isn't a very tangible subject and hasn't been addressed so far as I am aware.
