A couple of weeks ago, as 2013 wound down, a player dragged me out to the woodshed for a beating over everything I’ve done to screw up the MUSH in the past few years.
Crafting? Awful.
Space system? Why?
Game lore? So terribly convoluted!
Bringing my alts online to pad the who list? Horribly deceitful and pointless.
Running RP threads in the forums as an alternative to in-game RP? Not their cup of tea.
How do any of these measures – these apparently half-assed Band-Aids that I’ve been slapping on OtherSpace – do anything to foster RP?
I’ll address these issues one by one in a bit. And later I’ll cop to things I’ve done in recent years that actually were detrimental MUSH.
But first I’ll say this: None of the items griped about above are detrimental to RP in the game. Period.
Later, I’ll talk more about what is, in my opinion, hurting RP.