Postby miirkaelisaar » Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:36 pm
Anyone else feel like they're pulling teeth just to get people to RP or react to literally anything in-game? It's like people are allergic to RPing anymore than "good morning". We implemented weather in the game to "make things more interesting" and give more reasons for people to wear different clothing and RP reactions to weather, and all my characters get treated like some kind of insane weirdos for saying it's too cold to go outside, or reacting in pain to animal attacks, because everyone else is a bland mechanics-sim and they literally only play this game to harvest wheat for 5 IRL years and somehow find that entertaining. It's sad that in a game with no NPCs, 80% of the player base chooses to play like NPCs anyway. That will never stop annoying and puzzling me. I can think of like one town in the entire cantr world that respects RP and reciprocates it on a regular basis, everywhere else likes to shut it down or ignore it completely, you can literally RP having a mild heart attack and being unconscious for 3 days and your character's friends will quietly move them into a corner and walk around them until they literally see them starving and have to react, and then they'll whine and whine about your character's eating disorder for 5 days when he HAD A HEART ATTACK and that's why he's starving because he's too weak to eat, and you explicitly explain the symptoms felt in RP and everyone just densely ignores every symptom you RP and asks if your character has weak teeth and that's why they can't eat. *FACEPALM* You cannot spell it out clear enough to get anyone to RP things anymore, they only react to the last 2 lines they see and all your effort gets shot down.
The thing that kept me coming back for 12 years is the perfect BALANCE of sim and RP, and I feel like most people don't appreciate or support it anymore like they did when I started this game and what made it so addicting, and this is why I wind up taking 2 or 3 month long breaks because it's so boring I can't will myself to play anymore, and then when I come back all the young characters bitch about how boring and slow everything was because my character was asleep with the keys and supplies, GOOD. Now YOU know how it feels to be bored out of YOUR mind. And then when my character gets everything running smoothly again, what do all those whiney characters do? Go to sleep or stop RPing and turn into farm sims and leave me bored again, awake and running a town where nothing happens, because they insisted I wake up and run it so they can sit around not living and not being people, just automatons picking sugar and potatoes. So if old people start falling asleep with the keys, it's probably because of how mind-numbingly boring it is to wake up now in a world where nothing happens. And if you're going to try and wake them up and complain that their sleeping is holding you back, then when they wake up and give you more opportunity, actually do things and live life and not go right to sleep or sim-farming for years. I literally feel like I'm playing all by myself sometimes, some characters in this game are so empty and the RP is next to nonexistent in most places except a handful of characters you might get close to, and as soon as they go on a trip or something, the town is dead and it's not fun to play anymore when it's like this.
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