Story Links

Brendan Mason · Post by **Brendan Mason** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 7:20 pm

I don't know whether it's possible for this to be implemented but here goes.

When a person sees the list of players in the game it appears like so.

+Brendan Mason

+Bror

+Alatar

_____________________

Now, what if, when a name is clicked, a brief, pre-written story appears, giving a background to the character. Writing such a profile, could be a prerequisite for the accounts system. All players already accepted, could simply write a brief outline.

All comments welcome.

Elaralith · Post by **Elaralith** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:24 pm

I don't really like that. I mean in all realism who goes around wearing a sign that gives a full history and background of themselves? Noone is who. All this would do is dimish player interaction. Character backgrounds should be found out through player interaction not through a simple mouse click.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 12:10 am

well duh! i think this is a great idea brendon, of course make it so you could only see their story if youve introduced, i think thats a given.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 12:27 am

Elaralith has a very good point. You should find out about other people by talking with them. Even being introduced is too easy. You can't get to know someone by simply saying 'hi'.

Elaralith · Post by **Elaralith** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 12:38 am

@Gro'bul You thought wrong. Nothing is "a given".

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 1:47 am

well you cant know someone name let alone their life story if you havent been intro'd,i still think its a good idea.
being the rp realist you are i thought you would have gone for this idea, or at least make it mandatory for your account acceptance, its not that hard and its interesting,this would also give the mods a reference if your not roleplaying, like you lived your life as an honest farmer then you steal? this would be considered ooc, therefore you could go to jail or something, i think the life story is exelent

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Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 1:52 am

What if every character had a profile thing, and when you click on the name like brendan said it will come up with info about the character and like a picture of them or something. But like Elaralith said, it isn't realistic.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:04 am

Every character already has a "profile thing". When you create your character you are able to enter some information about them.

It would be possible to make these players hot linkable and show the text in this profile. It's actually an interesting idea and really wouldn't be *that* difficult to do (a php script).

Not sure if we want this or not, but it might happen.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:10 am

if you dont put it in the game you should at least make it mandatory for application system, although not too soon as i hear cosma is swamped, well at least this down time will give her some time to sort things out hopefully.

best of luck and happy emailing cosma