Things that annoy or puzzle you about Cantr

[gudgeon]

I have no problem at all with people who play a robotic working character and I've had success with them in the past and appreciated them just lending a hand to all the work, but when you make multiple and give them all the exact same name, exact same actions, and exact same goals and speeches and motivation, it confuses other people who are trying to tell their own characters apart and play the game right.

Exactly. I'm totally fine if there's only 1 Potato.

[miirkaelisaar]

7531-4: Potator Trademark (Klojt) (a man in his twenties) says to you: "(ooc:Genesis server lets players spawn instantly as aged character depending on collective amount of days survived as other characters. If only I knew that earlier.)"

This is not true.

In the "olden" days, when Genesis was just for new players, mentor characters of active players spawned at 40, maybe he's confused about that, but otherwise all characters in Genesis just spawn at 20, like usual.

That's exactly what I thought, I'm like wtf is this guy talking about? I've played cantr for over 12 years in real life and my character in Genesis spawned at 20 like everyone else.

Also, as an /actual/ CRB from Potator, the character has been talking in-game about very specific game mechanisms that the character should not reasonably know. They also have been using (OOC:) inappropriately. In one case, the player tried to start an argument with me over semantics. In another, Potator was asked not to do something by a town leader, and the player responded OOC to say they wouldn't be doing that thing because it didn't optimise game mechanics. I can provide screenshots of both examples if needed.
I agree with Miirk that it just ruins parts of the game to have the same character littered around the place.

Edit: I've also submitted my concerns via the CRB reporting tool in Cantr, but didn't hear back, hence why I'm posting here, too.

Yes this too, like in my example above, you can see that my character is engaging Potator as a character in-game, and because he can't figure out how to make this make actual sense in the game, he just ooc explains to me that he doesn't give a crap about the game, he's just trying to level up in Genesis. And my character continued, in character, to think he's blabbering about things, because I didn't ask him for an ooc explanation of why he's messing things up, I wanted his character to answer for themselves why they have this idea, but the player doesn't want to flesh it out and do the work, they just want to float through this for a weird ulterior motive.

And he also did the same a couple of other times. He bitched to me through another character, OOC again, that it's not fair that he can't drag half a million grams of something and that having limits on dragging enables cheating. I explained to him it's the exact opposite, that having limitations on strength and pulling prevents issues we had in the past of small groups decimating entire cities in seconds because they can drag every object and person in town while someone is sleeping or at work and they come back to their character dead because mechanics were abused. He whined and whined that it's not fair, I told him one of my characters literally can't drag more than 11 kilos, less than what a person can hold in their inventory, and I deal with it because this is how the game is meant to be and we can't god mode, and that the ONLY reason to NOT have a limit on dragging would be to cheat the system and rob people, so there was no argument for his point. He was not having it, he thinks that us and the devs are all dumb and our game is broken and stupid and that he could do better by removing all the RP and making this a simulator only. And if that's what he wants he can go play farmville, or Sims, this is an RPG, with other humans and no NPCs, for a specific reason and that's to engage in RP along with simulation, with other players. Otherwise it could be an offline game with NPCs if all we were doing is collecting and building with no human interaction. He can play freaking minecraft, he doesn't want to play this game yet he's here being a dork just to mess it up for us.

[Finch]

Anyone from PD want to weigh in on this, or...?

[Bran-Muffin]

Potator.... I've ran into 15 different versions of him so far, Graduated from Knives in Genesis I'm guessing

[gudgeon]

Potator is actually earlier than Knives. At least Potator is coherent. Knives even uses emoji. The horror!

[miirkaelisaar]

I'm also starting to wonder if people who join aren't being given too short a wait to start in real cantr. Knives was able to start making characters so soon and he never learned anything in Genesis and just started wreaking havoc on us. Now there's another one in Genesis who doesn't listen or learn anything and just joins cantr and messes things up because she has no clue how to play and I have to explain everything to her even though she was just in Genesis having everything explained to her. Maybe someone should have to prove they've completed the tutorial before joining the actual game, you know, like other games. No new character until Genesis has decided you at least understand how to interact properly with the other players and not give them a hard time with aaaall of your new characters. Or just a way for Genesis characters to postpone a newbie's passage to real cantr when they're refusing to listen or play the game, just for these rare cases where someone is belligerently ignoring people trying to teach them and just habitually disrupts instead of trying to play.