While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

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Nah, Summer is dangerous... They have very little to eat, so camps all of a sudden become VERY appealing to them!
 
You know what, that's perfect.

The Nespaper, coming to a thread near you.

I am still accepting submissions right now. And some people need to work on theirs a bit. :rolleyes:

 
On that, I'm making a small wiki entry for our thing. :)

wiki:
NES (forum game)

A NES, or Never Ending Story, is a collaborative forum game originating from the Civilization fansite CivFanatics in 2001. Its premise is to allow users to manage a self-made empire in an alternate line of history, much like the Civilization franchise, but has the kicker that the game is intended to never end.

The games deal with concepts such as history, culture, economics, diplomacy, politics and warfare and allows for creative expression through stories or alternate media such as musical pieces or illustrations. These stories are often rewared ingame with a small bonus.

I don't know, I might have too much free time at the moment. I have to spend it on things more constructive, I know. Stuff like a NWNES story idea I have and another musical piece for N3S.
 
An open note to NESers:

When you personally attack one of your fellow NESers, you are hurting the community as a whole. Don't take this as me saying 'Never invade your neighbour'- we can be as evil, conniving and dastardly as we want, presuming that we do it in an in-character manner. I've been growing increasingly frustrated with events where NESers, frustrated by the events taking place in their games, have taken to dropping out of character to deliver personal insults against others.

This is entirely unacceptable. It is childish to be angry at a person for something they have done in a Role-Playing Game, where there is an inherent separation between someone's in-game character (IC) and out-of-game character (OOC). If someone's nation, organization or character has wronged your nation, organization or character, then you can respond in character. These player interactions form one of the core pillars of NESing.

Muddling the border of IC and OOC is a scourge. If you are angry at someone's nation, respond with your nation, not with ad hominem attacks on the nation's player.
 
Lord_Iggy said:
An open note to NESers:

When you personally attack one of your fellow NESers, you are hurting the community as a whole. Don't take this as me saying 'Never invade your neighbour'- we can be as evil, conniving and dastardly as we want, presuming that we do it in an in-character manner. I've been growing increasingly frustrated with events where NESers, frustrated by the events taking place in their games, have taken to dropping out of character to deliver personal insults against others.

This is entirely unacceptable. It is childish to be angry at a person for something they have done in a Role-Playing Game, where there is an inherent separation between someone's in-game character (IC) and out-of-game character (OOC). If someone's nation, organization or character has wronged your nation, organization or character, then you can respond in character. These player interactions form one of the core pillars of NESing.

Muddling the border of IC and OOC is a scourge. If you are angry at someone's nation, respond with your nation, not with ad hominem attacks on the nation's player.
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Seconded
 
Fourthed. When someone roleplays badly, I always attack the nation for acting irrationally, not the player for bad RPing (except via PM as a warning).
 
Lord_Iggy said:
An open note to NESers:

When you personally attack one of your fellow NESers, you are hurting the community as a whole. Don't take this as me saying 'Never invade your neighbour'- we can be as evil, conniving and dastardly as we want, presuming that we do it in an in-character manner. I've been growing increasingly frustrated with events where NESers, frustrated by the events taking place in their games, have taken to dropping out of character to deliver personal insults against others.

This is entirely unacceptable. It is childish to be angry at a person for something they have done in a Role-Playing Game, where there is an inherent separation between someone's in-game character (IC) and out-of-game character (OOC). If someone's nation, organization or character has wronged your nation, organization or character, then you can respond in character. These player interactions form one of the core pillars of NESing.

Muddling the border of IC and OOC is a scourge. If you are angry at someone's nation, respond with your nation, not with ad hominem attacks on the nation's player.
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I would qualify this to say that if you think a fellow player has performed an out of character action, you would be justified in criticizing him, as long as you do it in a civil and responsible way that leads to discussion of the actions in dispute. Taking it out of the thread unless there's a specifically designated OOC thread is also a good move.
 
Well, that makes a more nuanced situation than the one I described. I think the most critical part of that solution is to maintain civility.
 
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