Post by SlothfulCat on Apr 9, 2007 13:58:19 GMT -5
Now, I know general rule of thumb is suspension of disbelief...but I want to throw this one out there for a talk.. and I am aware there is no hard and fast rule for the server about these two things.
"Last night we wailed those orogs to the hells and back near Immersea!" said JoeSmoe while standing in Isinhold's town square.
"Yeah, them orogs are tough... not as tough as those orcs norht of arabel I fought this morning." replied Axehacker.
"... youre telling me you two nitwits found a mage to teleport you around the realm?" inquired rather-confused-bard.
"nah... we jumped the caravans... cheap and fast!" replied the first two as one.
We can all see the problem right? Now with teleporation a wizard might be able to say this... but caravans... even if they're RPed as hiring a 12 horse drawn carraige and galloping down the road... only move so fast, not fast enough to take you from Arabel to Redmist in 2 minutes, or even half a day.
Similary, "Redmist locked its gates this morning, why hasn't the Crown done anything about it yet" and other such statements also reflect the problem of disbelief becoming impossible, if you were at redmist and are now in suzial... more time would have elapsed than 2 hours, and it would be unrealistic to think 2500 men marchign on foot would have been able to respond in those two hours.
I know its a fantasy setting, but really... immersion is hard with things like this, having to answer to OOC timetables for things that simply arent able to be conducted without putting through an update to the server, only to reupdate later... and OOC time references for journies that would take days if not weeks.
That said I'm not attacking anyoen here, and do things like this myself when I'm not thinking of it.. and it annoys me when I do it too.
Some strategies I've come up with has been to simply be vague in reference to time and distance... so isntead of "last night" JoeSmoe says instead...
"Last time we wailed on those orogs near Immersea we sent them to the hells!"
or something similar, that lets others make time fluid around it.
Similarly treating transitions as a fluid amount of distance helps with things like "Theres an army of Kobolds right otuside isinhold!" to change it to something like "Theres an army of kobolds south of isinhold".
Again, not an attack just something to throw out for discussion as it seems to get more and more common to see.
"Last night we wailed those orogs to the hells and back near Immersea!" said JoeSmoe while standing in Isinhold's town square.
"Yeah, them orogs are tough... not as tough as those orcs norht of arabel I fought this morning." replied Axehacker.
"... youre telling me you two nitwits found a mage to teleport you around the realm?" inquired rather-confused-bard.
"nah... we jumped the caravans... cheap and fast!" replied the first two as one.
We can all see the problem right? Now with teleporation a wizard might be able to say this... but caravans... even if they're RPed as hiring a 12 horse drawn carraige and galloping down the road... only move so fast, not fast enough to take you from Arabel to Redmist in 2 minutes, or even half a day.
Similary, "Redmist locked its gates this morning, why hasn't the Crown done anything about it yet" and other such statements also reflect the problem of disbelief becoming impossible, if you were at redmist and are now in suzial... more time would have elapsed than 2 hours, and it would be unrealistic to think 2500 men marchign on foot would have been able to respond in those two hours.
I know its a fantasy setting, but really... immersion is hard with things like this, having to answer to OOC timetables for things that simply arent able to be conducted without putting through an update to the server, only to reupdate later... and OOC time references for journies that would take days if not weeks.
That said I'm not attacking anyoen here, and do things like this myself when I'm not thinking of it.. and it annoys me when I do it too.
Some strategies I've come up with has been to simply be vague in reference to time and distance... so isntead of "last night" JoeSmoe says instead...
"Last time we wailed on those orogs near Immersea we sent them to the hells!"
or something similar, that lets others make time fluid around it.
Similarly treating transitions as a fluid amount of distance helps with things like "Theres an army of Kobolds right otuside isinhold!" to change it to something like "Theres an army of kobolds south of isinhold".
Again, not an attack just something to throw out for discussion as it seems to get more and more common to see.