Raspar Ojen posted Mar 4, 12
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Author: Raspar, BioWare, Blood Factory, EA, Jedi, Kaizen, Larrick Haldo Presents, LucasArts, Nar Shaddaa, Niatara, role-play, Roleplay, RP, Sebaya Keto, Sith, Star Wars, Star Wars The Old Republic, SWTOR, SWTOR-RP, The Old Republic, TOR, Vaanthe, Yann'su
Larrick Haldo here, giving you the news on what is happening where and how to do it with the least amount of legal ramifications possible. After my recent…stink on Nar Shaddaa, I hadn't planned on making an appearance there for a while until I was sure specific events had been forgotten. However, my Hutt-loving editor decided that I needed to return sooner than I had expected. I contemplated faking my own death for a few weeks and shacking up with a local Ithorian dance troupe until the whole thing had blown over. Alas, Ithorians don't make the best dancers, and after hearing what he wanted me to cover, I took my per diem, self prescribed medication, and got on the next shuttle to Nar Shaddaa.
I've never been a big sports fan. Never made much sense to me. This could be due to the fact I am not very athletic, or the fact that the sport I created was never really accepted in popular culture. (For whatever reason, ingesting a massive amount of hallucinogens and chasing school children with sticks in an effort to gather the various candy strapped to their chests is not considered very sporting. I retain I am simply ahead of my time.) However, while I am not a fan of most traditional sports, I am a very big fan of violence overall. Especially violence involving fire, blasters and explosions. And the event hosted by the aptly named "Blood Factory” appeared to be my kind of event.
Now, a disclaimer: those who aren't accustomed to traversing the wilds that are the lower levels of Nar Shaddaa, be warned. Simply getting to this place is work enough, and if you aren't willing to shoot a nice little old lady in the face for looking at you funny, you may want to reconsider taking the trek down. Luckily I have a history of shooting at senior citizens, so I felt completely prepared to delve into the belly of Nar Shaddaa and see what was being digested.
Sebaya Keto posted Feb 8, 12
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Author: Sebaya Keto, Balkito, Batty, BioWare, Black Talon, Bounty Hunter, Dromund Kaas, FreelanceWizard, Huttball, Iamillerg, Ilum, Imperial Agent, Imperial Fleet, Jedi, Jhantiir, Kaon, Korriban, Lord Adraas, Lord Zash, Mordecia, Nar Shaddaa, Niatara, Ord Mantell, Rakghoul, Republic, role-play, Roleplay, RP, Sith, Sith Empire, Sith Inquisitor, Smuggler, Star Wars, Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars The Old Republic, SWTOR, SWTOR-RP, Taris, Tatooine, The Old Republic, Tisiphonie, TOR, Trooper
In this week's The Darker Side of Life, we're going to be going into a topic that many RPers struggle with and argue over. Just how much of the time can you be in-character? In the article on roleplaying BioWare's story, we touched on using the class stories in-character. This time we're going to dig deeper and include the rest of the game too. There is more to the game than just the stories. If you happen to be standing around the Galactc Trade Network on your faction's fleet base, are you still in-character? Some players refuse to use voice chat, not because it might give away that your busty Twi'lek waitress as some hairy guy, but because once you know what a player sounds like, their characters might start sounding like that in your head too, instead of whatever accent they may be trying to portray.
For those of us that have been around RP communities a long time, there are also the people we've run into that refuse to communicate OOCly with other players as well. All they do is roleplay; everything else is shunned. Is that the apex of heavy roleplay, or a dangerous lack of communication that will lead to unnecessary drama? The question at the heart of this week's column really might be how much of our community is OOC.
Read on as we break down different activites and review community responses from The Darker Side of Life thread on how people feel about doing those activities in-character. Through this we'll attempt to find a line that can be used to guide people about what is IC and what is OOC. After all, once you've finished levelling, many players will find that their time is spent doing different activites like PvP warzones that don't lend themselves as well to roleplay as a Flashpoint might. How do we deal with it? Read on and we'll try to figure it out together.
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