Inyourfaceistan wrote:The State of Monavia wrote:Godmoding is a subject that does not get discussed much in threads like this one, so your decision to mention it should offer us all a good change of pace. When I first saw your post I initially assumed that its contents were redundant since Euroslavia wrote an excellent guide on the subject a decade ago and made it pretty thorough. Once I actually read your post, I was very pleased to find that you have broken some new ground by addressing unfair infiltration, warping, dishonesty, and slow-posting since other posters have written little or nothing about them.
Thank you!
TBH I was hesitant to include slow-posting since 9/10 times the other player just has IRL obligations or other threads to respond to, and I hope I was distinct enough on the difference.In my own experience, warping is the most pervasive godmode among NS RPers who are mature enough not to dictate losses or play characters that do not belong to them. Though I do not see many explicit cases of warping now, there were quite a few cases where I used to see RPers entering IC threads by stating they had warships on routine patrols that just happen to be close to the country hosting the thread. Stuff like this seems to qualify as metagaming in the sense that the player entering the thread knows he or she needs to have assets near the site of the action driving the story and therefore positions them in a location that is convenient for making the plot move a certain desired way. A less sordid form of warping involves RPers posting that they are dispatching planes, ships, etc. to a given location and having them show up almost immediately.
Yeah, warping is pretty common. I have had character RP's even where my guy steps off a plane in Country X and someone from country Y is already running up to him on the tarmac wanting to discuss a secret plot...
Continuing on with the theme of slow-posting or ignoring posts, I find that putting time and location stamps on each scene in an IC post is one way to help prevent RP participants from accidentally losing track of what is happening at different times and places. Nonetheless, there have been times where I go through the trouble of writing multiple scenes in a single post, only for someone to write a single post in response that does not address various things I have my characters doing. In your experience, are there any techniques you have successfully used to prevent other RPers from ignoring your IC actions?