Xantholic

Unfortunately I find that hard to believe. Sadly a lot of players simply say something was/is copy/pasted when they don't like what happened in a scenario.

Are they actually ctrl + v'ing emotes, or are you just assuming they are? It's a common thing to say 'oh, they copied and pasted that.' but there's very rarely any proof, usually it's just a cop out. And sure, your character keeps their distance from people, but at the end of the day, if somebody wants to get to you, there's really not a lot you can do. I'm the same way IRL, but I've been approached and punched before by people. It's generally hard to avoid a punch, especially from somebody who wants to beat your ass. Instead of running around the room, just swing back. You'll find that only dogshit rpers (who are usually lost causes) do the whole running in circles thing, same with tackling during brawls, it's heavily frowned upon by most illegal rpers who actually care about quality roleplay. Me personally, if I start swinging on ur char, I'm staying in the same spot and swinging until one of our asses goes down. Usually these 'circling' tactics are used by people who don't care too much about the rp scene at all and just want to win the brawl. I've lost so many brawls willingly by staying in the same spot and swinging, and frankly, I'm proud of that fact because I know my roleplay's not trash and that I gave the other player a fair chance to win without trying to lag my way in to a win, which i could very, very easily do considering my horrible ping. It makes perfect sense in my personal opinion, because as I said, there's not a whole lot most average people can do about being punched other than well, being punched. Waiting for responses, while it sounds good on paper, just isn't going to happen unfortunately. This system has existed since LSRP, if you initiate combat with a /me, you should be able to initiate script combat, response times just drag on scenes for longer than they need to go on. Another server, STRP (A red dead roleplay server) introduced a command called /cme, which is an emote that initiates combat, and after a /cme is posted, no response is required and both individuals can initiate combat. It was a very good idea and is honestly something that I think would help solve the issue that people have with response times on GTA:W.

Hahaha I love this shit. There's genuinely not a lot of people who'd rp a straight up rat. Fuckin peseta!

The way I see it, if you initiate combat with a /me, you're good to immediately initiate it, i'd never complain about that. My character once got set up by a girl from an enemy gang, he was attacked with a single /me without giving me time to react, but i didn't care, my character didn't expect it, so i let it play out as it happened. People need to understand that if someone initiates PVP on u, they can't really be expected to wait for u to respond. If I RP shooting u for example, what am i supposed to do, wait for u to type /me gets shot, when i could have already shot your character and ran away to avoid your guys who immediately started shooting back at me? These kinds of situations happen in seconds, not minutes, and that's the way it should play out in game too.

OOC time doesn't matter imo. Half the time when u type /me punches [name], people just immediately start swinging back at you anyway if you pause after typing the /me.

I stand by the fact that in my opinion it's not powergaming. It's not about out-doing or out-skilling anybody, it's about the fact that if you type a /me to punch somebody, realistically, they're not really going to be able to defend themselves against that, especially if it's done suddenly IC.

I love this shit. Go hard with it.

Yeah you'd need to get a lawyer IC and go over it with them, they'd likely have more information on when you can get your record expunged.

Depending on what crimes your character was convicted of, there's the possibility of getting some parts of your record expunged once enough time has passed, thus having your criminal points lowered. I've never done it though so I couldn't tell you exactly how to do it.

+1

this ^ at the end of the day if you suddenly attack somebody in real life, the other person's not really gonna have much time to respond either.

Unfortunately gatekeeping is needed. Not everybody is fit for a specific role.

+1

+1 never saw much of a real point in this rule. People come home from prison and return to their hood all the time. It also makes no sense that law enforcement rpers get to keep the same rank if they CK and decide to make a new character, yet if a street gang rper ck's his or her character, they can't make a new soldier character. I'll use myself as an example, I don't like playing (M) characters. So if I'm in a faction, CK my character, I'm practically forced to roleplay something I don't enjoy just because the rules dictate that that's how it should be, when I could very well roleplay a character coming home from prison / youth authority, as it happens in real life quite a lot.

This + less characters RPing fetishized british/japanese lesbians.