25-03-2025, 10:19 PM
First of all,
Let's recognize that the immediate use of RP channels for actual RP purposes was a violation of the current game rules and is not allowed. It should not have happened in the first place and players should accept that it was not right to happen without any sort of approval. Let's not attempt to make this as if it some sort of persecution. It's currently against the rules, end of story.
Now let's go through the pros and cons of this. I'll go through the pros first. The only real pro I see to adding different RPs to the discord is mainly ease of access. Conferences, discussion, and inter-character conversations may be easier from being on discord, mainly because it is easy to access and easy to post. This would of course make ABU's easier to maintain and respond to.
Now for the cons. The first issue comes with recognizing what is on the forums and what is on the discord. Regardless if this new rule is implemented, it still has to be on the forums. This is a forum RP game, not a discord one. The argument is that it is efficient..... Have we even thought about the organization and logistics of such a decision? The discord is eventually going to be overwhelmed by the amount of RPs we add. Even if there is a designated spot for it on the forums, we're just unnecessarily crowing it with RP. It's going to become a mini-forum on the already crowded discord server. We talk about "working around the rules", which I think is perfidious to begin with, yet we fail to identify the past issues we've had before: PT mods are not responsible for what happens in other servers. Of course you could do this in a different server, but if there is power gaming or unfair play--which is not uncommon in this community, there can be no official ruling. You'd be on your own and in your own disagreements--and let's be honest, I don't think this community is capable of reaching agreements concerning RPs (see Kundrati Civil War). Which leads me to my next point, we are going to abandon the forum-based nature of the game (which has worked for decades) and adding a discord element to it. For those who don't know, PT alpha used discord to RP its main world, yet there it is, dead. Besides the incomplete nature of that version, the discord RP is unremarkable and easy to forget. Lost in an abyss of unreadable and unorganized threads.
Pros:
- Ease of Access
- Fun(?)
Cons:
- Accessing previous RPs on Discord
- Logistics (who's uploading to forums and not?)
- Organization of RP on discord
- Recognition of RP (who is going to recognize discord RP?)
- External Discord Server Issues
- Unaligned Community Norms and Previous attempts at similar proposal
Do I think there's a very unique way to get discord involved in RP? Sure, but it is going to be a very regulated and logistically strenuous rule that, quite frankly, we do not have the oversight to make sure it rolls out perfectly. If there is a heavily organized and sophisticated way to make this work, I would love to see it. But for now, the cons severely outweigh the pros in my opinion, and I am not going to support any sort of measure unless there is a guarantee that it will truly improve the game for everyone not just for those who cant handle using a forum.
Let's recognize that the immediate use of RP channels for actual RP purposes was a violation of the current game rules and is not allowed. It should not have happened in the first place and players should accept that it was not right to happen without any sort of approval. Let's not attempt to make this as if it some sort of persecution. It's currently against the rules, end of story.
Now let's go through the pros and cons of this. I'll go through the pros first. The only real pro I see to adding different RPs to the discord is mainly ease of access. Conferences, discussion, and inter-character conversations may be easier from being on discord, mainly because it is easy to access and easy to post. This would of course make ABU's easier to maintain and respond to.
Now for the cons. The first issue comes with recognizing what is on the forums and what is on the discord. Regardless if this new rule is implemented, it still has to be on the forums. This is a forum RP game, not a discord one. The argument is that it is efficient..... Have we even thought about the organization and logistics of such a decision? The discord is eventually going to be overwhelmed by the amount of RPs we add. Even if there is a designated spot for it on the forums, we're just unnecessarily crowing it with RP. It's going to become a mini-forum on the already crowded discord server. We talk about "working around the rules", which I think is perfidious to begin with, yet we fail to identify the past issues we've had before: PT mods are not responsible for what happens in other servers. Of course you could do this in a different server, but if there is power gaming or unfair play--which is not uncommon in this community, there can be no official ruling. You'd be on your own and in your own disagreements--and let's be honest, I don't think this community is capable of reaching agreements concerning RPs (see Kundrati Civil War). Which leads me to my next point, we are going to abandon the forum-based nature of the game (which has worked for decades) and adding a discord element to it. For those who don't know, PT alpha used discord to RP its main world, yet there it is, dead. Besides the incomplete nature of that version, the discord RP is unremarkable and easy to forget. Lost in an abyss of unreadable and unorganized threads.
Pros:
- Ease of Access
- Fun(?)
Cons:
- Accessing previous RPs on Discord
- Logistics (who's uploading to forums and not?)
- Organization of RP on discord
- Recognition of RP (who is going to recognize discord RP?)
- External Discord Server Issues
- Unaligned Community Norms and Previous attempts at similar proposal
Do I think there's a very unique way to get discord involved in RP? Sure, but it is going to be a very regulated and logistically strenuous rule that, quite frankly, we do not have the oversight to make sure it rolls out perfectly. If there is a heavily organized and sophisticated way to make this work, I would love to see it. But for now, the cons severely outweigh the pros in my opinion, and I am not going to support any sort of measure unless there is a guarantee that it will truly improve the game for everyone not just for those who cant handle using a forum.
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