Eeek. That sounds like it could be pretty wearying, especially if there's forced, programmed delays in space transit. Around Puzzlebox, I'll sometimes zip through a room if I'm going somewhere, though I'm just as likely to use 'meet' and pose something about exactly how I got there. (Does SCM deliberately lack rapid-transit tools like 'meet'?)
Stuff like that sounds like it could get in the way of story, which, I think, is a lot of what highly-IC mucking is all about. But yeah, that's kinda irrelevant to Bandari since 'travel time' will probably be two minutes or so at most.
I think there should always be some wiggle room for OOCness. And more importantly, a willingness to bend the rules a little for story. For instance, I could see someone getting uptight about a macro being 'in' a normal-sized house (I gather 'too big for the room' is a not uncommon argument in macro circles) when a few poses involving opening windows would suffice: the field of interaction is clearly Normal Person's living room, it just so happens that Macro is poking their head in from the yard. On the other hand, Macro being in a room in the underground catacombs that have no openings higher than eight feet (there's an idea for something to think about building, chipotle - some kind of area that macros explicitly just can't get to, IC) would be legitimate OOC concern.
I'm drifting from my point: I think I'm down on 'OOC Lounges' on RP-heavy mucks. It's too easy to just sit there all the time and bitch about your sucky life, the piss-poor quality of the dubbing on the latest Japanese import on Cartoon Network, or negotiate setting up a net game of $hot_computer_game_of_the_moment, with not even a thin veneer of your intended character. It's a mosaic story, not a virtual water-cooler with everyone in costume.
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Date: 2004-03-08 11:39 (UTC)Eeek. That sounds like it could be pretty wearying, especially if there's forced, programmed delays in space transit. Around Puzzlebox, I'll sometimes zip through a room if I'm going somewhere, though I'm just as likely to use 'meet' and pose something about exactly how I got there. (Does SCM deliberately lack rapid-transit tools like 'meet'?)
Stuff like that sounds like it could get in the way of story, which, I think, is a lot of what highly-IC mucking is all about. But yeah, that's kinda irrelevant to Bandari since 'travel time' will probably be two minutes or so at most.
I think there should always be some wiggle room for OOCness. And more importantly, a willingness to bend the rules a little for story. For instance, I could see someone getting uptight about a macro being 'in' a normal-sized house (I gather 'too big for the room' is a not uncommon argument in macro circles) when a few poses involving opening windows would suffice: the field of interaction is clearly Normal Person's living room, it just so happens that Macro is poking their head in from the yard. On the other hand, Macro being in a room in the underground catacombs that have no openings higher than eight feet (there's an idea for something to think about building,
I'm drifting from my point: I think I'm down on 'OOC Lounges' on RP-heavy mucks. It's too easy to just sit there all the time and bitch about your sucky life, the piss-poor quality of the dubbing on the latest Japanese import on Cartoon Network, or negotiate setting up a net game of $hot_computer_game_of_the_moment, with not even a thin veneer of your intended character. It's a mosaic story, not a virtual water-cooler with everyone in costume.