Hazard wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:29 amThe whole system, in my eyes, just incentivises OOC (discord) co-operation.
That is not to say everyone is cheating through metagaming, but it does reward those who do, and that specific kind of metagaming is near impossible to police for DMs because it can easily be done through private channels and have the necessary RP sprinkled in in-module to legitimise anything that was ordained.It isn't the good old days anymore. How often is it that a settlement leader is the leader without being involved in any discord channels at all? When was the last time 'the greatest fighting force' didn't have a discord channel? I'm not saying it's everyone all the time, but it's certainly most of them most of the time.
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Honestly, this was one of the highest forms of praise I think I received.
It is possible. It is doable. I actually work pretty hard to KEEP things IC and not rely on discord for much other than just timezone coordination with hard to reach people and talking with people I've made friends with.
And I can tell you, from my time as the Bendir Leader, We don't... use discord for anything really other than just having fun with occ shenanigans and general queries. There's... almost no chatter aside from 'hey, are you around at this time on this day?'. Most of everything is in the server, in game. Events posting, some suggestions... but no, huge, collusion. No secret back rooms. No private discord calls just, a bunch of friends coordinating and trying to make the best of it.
But that's the thing, we make it work. IC, we make the effort to make it work. The Heartwood Grove didn't have much of a discord (it had 2 actually) but the leadership at least from Burin onward was pretty active IC only. From my time in Myon, not much of what I did was ever Discord related, even after discord became bigger.
At the sake of acting and speaking anecdotally about my own experiences, I've found that statements like these are a bit... unsubstantiated? Sure they happen but not nearly on the scale that they are rumored to be.
All I'm saying is that, for a faction, Settlement Factions, leadership opportunities are there. Settlement leadership, is not some archaic, anti-rp beast. And if it is a bit burdensome, let's try to come together, and fix it. Make suggestions like have been made, and stop making claims like this because in the end, it just distracts. Because at the end of the day, it's a system to give us the opportunity to BE a better rp-er, and to do something different other than PVP, PVE and Crafting. It gives us a system to try and make change.
So instead of complaining, join. Become part of the government, learn it, and help it succeed. You think it doesn't work? Then find a way to make that change. Get into those circles and try.
Because just claiming over and over that people are acting 'as the leader' we aren't. Most every Leader I've worked with understands that they aren't the supreme commander of the forces. Hell, have you even seen what's happened in Cordor Lately? In Brog? In Andunor?
Because if you had, you'd know that the leaders are in constant flux and there have been huge changes IC recently that change how settlements interact. It's not 2D faction nightmares. There's alot of depth, you just have to get involved.
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