HappyShackles
Villager
"If you do lose you deserve it." No, you don't. Because roleplay isn't about what you 'deserve,' it's about the story. The goal is not to win, it is to build a cohesive tale of the interactions between your characters. Hate, love, memory, loss, sorrow, blood, sweat and tears. Not diamonds and enchantments. I do not care for my character to lose. Though of course this discussion does not pertain to the Southern Wilds, where I am told (by members of the staff) most of what happens is Out of Character and thusly not effected by the law of realism and roleplay.Then you lost to them. If you have been around on the server for a while you will have better stuff than the newbies and you won't lose very often, and if you do lose you deserve it. Its stupid to assign to experienced roleplayers an arbitrary shield of protection versus newbies. The only time you have problems of an experienced person losing to a neonate when they should not is when you have a text based rp and that neonate godmodes. That problem does not exist if you use minecraft pvp. Also note that I said mages might have a hard time using minecraft pvp because magic spells are not a part of minecraft. If you ask me, it should have stayed that way, exceptions permitted for non combat magic and things simulatable in minecraft, but that is an unpopular opinion and I am not arguing for that here. Mage combat, I will admit, is better in "Free-form"
The only way to lose in roleplay is upset yourself over how the roleplay is going.
If the people around you know to roleplay in a way that makes it fun for everyone, this should not be a problem.
This 'hierarchy' is based on how long people have been on the server. If I may ask respectfully; what if someone has been on the server for a year but plays a farmer and so has more resources, but kills a slightly newer player with less resources who has made their way to archmage or something of that sort? It makes no sense for a farmer to kill an archmage, no matter how you slice it. What your character is should effect your character, regardless of how many resources you have gathered. If my character lost both his arms, should he be able to wear heavy diamond armor and slaughter1: People are not equal in combat ability. People like Legion are very skillful, and will beat most other people given equal equipment, and others like Deadpress are noteworthy for the degree to which their equipment outclasses the average Alteran's. There is a hierarchy in this system, and it is a fair one, not based on who ascended their character the closest to godhood and who did so "legitimately."
I have no response to this.2: You are saying disagreement on how to roleplay is bad. (Therefore I should yeild.)
NO U
Other people can invest in them, even if their character is not agile.Invest in swiftness potions.
I repeat; people wearing diamond armor can run just as fast as people without diamond armor (disregarding food.) Thusly, until someone can prove this a fallacy, my point regarding minecraft mechanics not being fully accurate to circumstantial roleplay realism stands, no?See above.
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