Being a new player to Lusternia, I find several things that seem much too strict?

Is that a statement or a question?

I have experimented with all four cities / communes and would like to sum up my experience.

I. Celest : After training and thumping in Newton Caverns, I asked a question over NEWBIE channel, no response. I tried GNT, no repsonse, so I went to CT. "don't spout that crap over CT, use the NEWBIE channel !"

God, Celest must suck. Glomdoring treats its novices better than that. Newbie channel is a bit rough sometimes, if there aren't enough people around to answer questions.

II. Serenwilde : *crickets*

Meh, well. How were you phrasing your questions? Were you taking an angry and or insulting tone, or were you asking nicely?

III. Magnagora (my favorite) : I first tried to play an Obese Rat Geomancer. "You can NOT be a furrikin, go play Celest if you want to be a Rat".
My second attempt, "Only those who have earned the right to use CT should say anything on this topic (I think I was a whole 2 hours away from graduating Novicehood, so my opinion doesn't mean ^%$# I guess).

It's called roleplaying. You want to do it, so expect them to do it back. Get into the history a bit, and you'll see just why a furrikin would be wierd in Magnagora. It's comparable to being black in the 1960's southern usa. You're not going to be treated well, and you might even get kicked out.

As for your opinion meaning nothing, you're correct. But remember, they're roleplaying this.


IV. Glomdoring : Wow..what a change. I was greeted right away. I think I used an emote once on a channel, the response "PLEASE, read the decorum documentation, and a private tell asking me to please not do things that can not be seen.

Don't emote on channels. Even if you do not agree with it, just don't do it. People say things over channels, they do not fondle/tackle/stalk/jab on channels. This pisses some peolpe off, but they get over it, or meet my morphling in an uncomfortable way.

The emote topic is another thing I find very odd. These can help explain your attitude. There are no voice fluxuations online, how do you tell if someone is joking or not?

ie. "Your an Arse !"
    *wink* "Your an Arse!"
This can mean two entirely different things. If no emote is used, it looks like a flat out insult?

I think someone else said it well before. There are different ways to say things. Be creative for god's sake, you're in a -text- game. Using the overused "heh" "heh heh" or "haha" is effective. Wouldn't you be slightly laughing or snickering anyway if you really said that?

Using abbreviations : I can't even say Glom or Mag? I have to spell the damn thing out every time? What is that ? If I was having a conversation with a friend, I would use the abbreviations? I an not a RoXoR DOOD, I am just an average joe.
I never speak in ebonics. It just seems a tad strict?

OMGZ I might have to spel in a text game? *flap* Oh noez!

I don't call Canada "can", I don't call Austrailia "aus" and I don't call Germany "germ". I call the United States of America the USA beause it has three words in the name. Until Glomdoring, Celest, Magnagora, and Serenwilde have more than one word as their name, I'll stick with typing the whole thing.

I guess the main thing that bothered me was the attitude by the so called "leaders" of the cities / communes, we ARE newbies for a reason. Don't get me wrong, there are a TON of helpful people in this community, I just find that attitudes are a bit rough at times.

Ask nicely an you will get almost anything answered. We hate a lot of newbies because they're idiots. Prove that you are not, and you will be liked.

There are reasons why some games die very quickly, and the people are what make a difference.

Going on one year baby. Achaea, Aetolia, and Imperian have not "died" quickly or slowly, and Lusternia is better than the three of those anyway.

Tossing my two cents out there.
FLAME AWAY, the Vernal Gods know we can't do that over any Chat channel in game !

There was once a chat channel in game. In beta. A chat channel destroys RP, there is proof of that. No, I don't care to provide it. I'd actually prefer if there were no shouts as well. You don't see me chatting with every person in the world at once at all times do you? Chat is bad. Chat leads to talking about Xboxes and snuggling. Chat leads to places like Aetolia.

*smile* is *NOT* an exception, and is a very bad one.

(Serenwilde): Idiot says, "-flops into Person's arms-."

shall be killed.  Plus, their character should also be killed.  I'm inclined to feel the same about "-blink-." and my favorite of all, "..." (if you're not saying anything, don't do it so loud!).

There was once a chat channel in game. In beta. A chat channel destroys RP, there is proof of that. No, I don't care to provide it. I'd actually prefer if there were no shouts as well. You don't see me chatting with every person in the world at once at all times do you? Chat is bad. Chat leads to talking about Xboxes and snuggling. Chat leads to places like Aetolia.

You should realise Richter that there are many muds out there that define RP a lot differently to Lusternia.

Cool for them. Play those MUDs then.

To some people an OOC channel would be considered essential for good roleplay.

Who? Here in Lusternia people think that?

Cool for them. Play those MUDs then

I think the muds where an OOC channel HELPS RP are the muds where the game mechanics do not enforce thier own type of roleplay like IRE does.  For example, in muds where you type KILL and then your charachter fights untill death, its easy to seperate yourself from your charachter, but when you are involved in every little detail of your charachter, and quests affect politics and player governments then time has shown that OOC channels ruin the secrecy needed to pull off good events.

I think that's exactly right. My initial impression of Lusternia is it's more about role immersion than role play (in the old fashioned MUSH sense of the word). In Lusternia, an OOC channel would likely only act to break that immersion.