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Being a mod for a game is frustrating because people will try to say something is a big but you can't verify it and when you suspect them of just being manipulative to get freebies they can explode.

Dunno how bad things can get on stuff like r/politics or whatever.

Discussing if the "absolutely garbage and unplayable units" are actually "fine and usable, but outclassed" is usually not too troublesome, even if some people are adamant about how the non-meta stuff is trash.

Lol, I don't get on arguments on reddit either, I just read the arguments. I used to argue on Gaia online when I was really young, which now I think is basically like reddit.

Sounds harsh, Melchi.

I've only modded roleplays and forum games, so bugs never even existed, so... That was easier to handle. Nobody got freebies or anything.

Well, trying to explain to people why their balance suggestion for the game was bad was a bit tough though. It can be hard to be polite when handling those.

Though I figured out the easiest way to handle it was to tell people I listened to suggestions, but final decisions were mine and that was that.

On roleplays OTOH... Well, it was mostly just fun, but when trouble arised, learning how to handle the interpersonal relationships could be hard.

If it is for roleplay, then things can get really messy. Say someone is involved in a plot, then another player helps them who isn't of an alignment that should help that person but they know each other IRL and another player calls foul. Some pk gets someone pulled out of the plot but the victim wants a retcon because they say the RP is BS. It just becomes a total mess.

As you can tell, there is also a lot of impromptu roleplaying here on SHF.

Yeah, but there are boundaries that people can't cross, it is not like characters on the forums can grief each other.

Ah... I never played roleplays where PK was allowed... That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

And well... In online RPs, people usually just make multiple characters if they wanna handle multiple factions, so things tend to work out. You can always use your friendly character to help.

... D&D-like RPs would be more troublesome though.

Oh, and impromptu forum roleplaying can be pretty fun too!

But well, it's different from dedicated roleplaying games or dedicated roleplaying sites~

Forum impromptu roleplay is more chill and purposeless~

Oh it can get like disturbingly bad, like in one game if a group of players thought one person would be a threat if they got high enough level they would killed the repeatedly just to keep their level down.

The admin of said game started deleting characters left and right for going around killing people without roleplay.

Eventually, they coded in a way where PvP would knock someone out, and they could be tied up and held hostage... though I'm not sure that was much better than just dying and licking your wounds in some cases.

Oh wow... What a mess.

I like my text-based roleplays where you can't even touch someone else's character without their permission.

And well, with no coding involved on anything other than having a functional forum. No system means no cheesing the system~

I can't imagine what it is like to roleplay with actual game mechanics... Sounds horrifying.

Only stuff I tried was D&D and the like... It was okay.

I prefer 0 numbers and 0 system though.

Well there is pluses and minuses, if there is a system that is in place a lot of things can happen between players and no DM is needed to sort through it all like in a play by post game. So stuff can happen, fast, like REALLY fast. One second you and someone else are having tea and the next people are back stabbing,

, flinging meteors around and you hope you can type the command to teleport away while you are above 0 hp. If they can cast a spell every 5 seconds that not much time to react.

It is a bit of a rush, because depending on the attacker they may tie you up and the roleplay will involve missing limbs. Which not everyone would be okay with participating with that kind of stuff. They later made a rule that anyone can force a fade to black. If someone doesn't respect that in a PK siguation it is grounds to get an IP ban.

Sounds pretty hectic indeed~

I like hectic roleplaying, but I still prefer it text only, without pvp, without DM, without system.

... Well, I can also enjoy slower roleplaying though~

But well, as long as I can play my child characters that have no fighting capabilities whatsoever, I tend to be happy~

It's also kinda fun to make orphan characters to see if anybody wants to adopt them and stuff~

Or well, making a character with established parents that are the characters of other players can be cool too~

... And well, older characters can be fun too, but I like roleplaying with child characters the most~