The awkward feeling of someone having too much info

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The awkward feeling of someone having too much info

Postby In Sorte Diaboli » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:19 pm

How often do you get the distinct feeling that a character knows too much to just have in-game information? Not that it's evident at all times, on the contrary, but it just feels... awkward knowing that everything you say to someone can be turned against you by another character just one town away...

So... is it really common for players to have two or more characters in the nearby regions? or am I being paranoid? Otherwise... confess!
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Postby Cdls » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:05 am

No paranoia, I can see why you would think so. I have wondered that same thing myself a couple times, but in the end, it really doesnt matter. I just play the same I would anyways, and if a player wants to ruin the experience by cheating in that regard, then that is their prerogative.
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Postby Doug R. » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:22 am

Pretty much ditto what Cdls says. I had three characters on K-Isle and I managed to not cheat, although I do admit that at times their memory lines blurred together somewhat, but never with anything important (just with little things like remembering information from notes another charrie had, etc.)

It was easy to keep them separate in regards to who they knew and what they thought of people (two fancied the same girl, actually, for completely legit in-game reasons, and the one never trusted the other because of that. Luckily, the one lived on the other side of the island and they only met up twice).

I managed it, but it wasn't an ideal situation, and I could easily see how someone could get confused or cheat. But why worry about what the next player's doing? It just takes the fun out of it.
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Postby 15454 » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:46 am

You have to realise some charries may be smart, attentitive, and by certain actions the ones around them are taking, and what they are saying.. One may be able to presume what is possibly going on somewhere where they are not, but I'd believe usually it is close.

Edit: Sorry I didn't really answer the question.. :oops: Personally I usually don't like to have charries to close to one another. And some charries do seem to know too much sometimes, but you never know.. so I never presume they are cheating or whatever you want to call it.
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Postby Proeme » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:50 am

in the dutch area it's really frustrating the last days. Characters say they know friends from somewhere else, and know information from them, while they are just spawned and have never left their spawning-place :S

but, after a couple of terrible days, it's getting better again :)
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Postby Skulty » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:08 am

Now imagine yourselves having 15 chars in only three islands! And in the earlier days of portuguese players there was only one, thank god others were found nearby... :)
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Re: The awkward feeling of someone having too much info

Postby N-Aldwitch » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:50 am

In Sorte Diaboli wrote:How often do you get the distinct feeling that a character knows too much to just have in-game information? Not that it's evident at all times, on the contrary, but it just feels... awkward knowing that everything you say to someone can be turned against you by another character just one town away...

So... is it really common for players to have two or more characters in the nearby regions? or am I being paranoid? Otherwise... confess!


Do you mean, like, you steal something from one town (radioless) then in another town, some guy is like "Hey, you look suspicious, and it looks like you're carrying a lot"? lol.
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Re: The awkward feeling of someone having too much info

Postby BarbaricAvatar » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:52 pm

N-Aldwitch wrote:Do you mean, like, you steal something from one town (radioless) then in another town, some guy is like "Hey, you look suspicious, and it looks like you're carrying a lot"? lol.


That sounds a lot like something that happened to me recently.
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Postby hEarty » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:06 pm

I'm absolutely HORRIBLE at reading maps so none of my characters use them. This in itself has caused me a couple problems over the past two years...

I'd have one girl who is stable in a town and all of a sudden, one of my travelling girls stumble on that town and begins her own rp there... I always try to keep the girl that is travelling's rp down to as little as possible, make up an excuse and travel on.

In all the time that I've played Cantr, I've jumped on the boards sporadically here and there just to see what is being talked about and in some cases, I've found out information that some of my characters didn't know or when I'm in game and a thief stole something from one town and in a year or so, after chasing the thief, they both arrive in another town that my other girl is at... But I digress from my points...

I am proud to say that not ONCE have I been part of a CRB because of information I may have on one character or may have found out on the boards...
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Postby CantrFreak » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:42 pm

I may have messed up my memory sometimes, but with little things...
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Postby hEarty » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:25 am

CantrFreak wrote:I may have messed up my memory sometimes, but with little things...


Your goal is to remember to always speak consistantly! *ducks and hides*
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Re: The awkward feeling of someone having too much info

Postby N-Aldwitch » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:01 am

BarbaricAvatar wrote:
N-Aldwitch wrote:Do you mean, like, you steal something from one town (radioless) then in another town, some guy is like "Hey, you look suspicious, and it looks like you're carrying a lot"? lol.


That sounds a lot like something that happened to me recently.


Lol I wasn't referring to a real situation. I haven't played Cantr in weeks now.
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"Thief! That's terrible! *shakes his head* That would hurt people's feeling if I did that."





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Postby Zanthos » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:11 pm

so THATS why there hasnt been another little bloody empire pop up on cantr isle
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Postby SuperSonicScientist » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:27 pm

Zanthos wrote:so THATS why there hasnt been another little bloody empire pop up on cantr isle


Some things haven't changed then!!
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Postby Chris Johnson » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:03 pm

Hi SSS - good to hear from you again :)

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