Things that annoy or puzzle you about Cantr

[ObsessedWithCats]

*girl spawns*
*guy welcomes girl*
*guy and girl hold a long, long, long public whispered discussion*
Two days later:
*girl and guy gush over each other, calling each other hun, sweety, darling, love-of-my-life, oh-my-gosh-what-would-I-do-without-you-baby?, etc, etc etc*

Am I the only one who doesn't let my character be MADLY in love with someone after knowing them for all of two days? :/

Two-days-to-find-the-love-of-your-lifers...... can we banish them all to their own island?

Ha, I've seen this a few times. Far better than the ones who spawn then sleep until they die, but kind of weird and creepy in a way. I have four characters, all 28 years old, and between them they've managed one maybe-crush-maybe-just-happy-to-see-someone-so-lively which I'm not sure how long it took but it was almost certainly more than a year after meeting and hasn't really progressed at all beyond friends.

[Rugila]

*girl spawns*
*guy welcomes girl*
*guy and girl hold a long, long, long public whispered discussion*
Two days later:
*girl and guy gush over each other, calling each other hun, sweety, darling, love-of-my-life, oh-my-gosh-what-would-I-do-without-you-baby?, etc, etc etc*

Am I the only one who doesn't let my character be MADLY in love with someone after knowing them for all of two days? :/

Two-days-to-find-the-love-of-your-lifers...... can we banish them all to their own island?

Ha, I've seen this a few times. Far better than the ones who spawn then sleep until they die, but kind of weird and creepy in a way. I have four characters, all 28 years old, and between them they've managed one maybe-crush-maybe-just-happy-to-see-someone-so-lively which I'm not sure how long it took but it was almost certainly more than a year after meeting and hasn't really progressed at all beyond friends.

Heh. Play their game for few days (2 - 3) Then pry their wallet empty and slap them in the face!
They practically turn into wild animals.

[ColormeGreen]

Ha, I've seen this a few times. Far better than the ones who spawn then sleep until they die, but kind of weird and creepy in a way. I have four characters, all 28 years old, and between them they've managed one maybe-crush-maybe-just-happy-to-see-someone-so-lively which I'm not sure how long it took but it was almost certainly more than a year after meeting and hasn't really progressed at all beyond friends.

Hmm.... very true about the sleepers, I guess. ha. Though I'll be honest, I'm not TOO sure about that.

As for your 28 year olds... wow... almost all of mine are around the same age! Did we start playing around the same time? lol Out of my 16 I've had..... 8 have been in some sort of relationship or had feelings for someone. Most of those relationships are so light that I don't even know if I want to consider them a relationship. And nearly all of those relationships or feelings were accrued after several years of getting to know someone.

There are two exceptions, but it bothers me when certain players seem to make it a rule to fall soooooooo in love/get a significant other/get laid/get married within days of knowing someone. :/

[BosBaBe]

*happy flails* Thanks Otherside, Wiro, that's reassuring. xD

Now my turn to rant about something else. A friend of mine who happens to play cantr as well was telling me about all the contrived drama his characters have to deal with. Like stuff that just happens uncharacteristically, out of the blue, with no other purpose but to cause drama or confusion. And I'm not even talking the regular Drama Llamas who might as well go around with a speakerphone roaring 'LOOK HOW CUTE I AM' in our faces, I'm talking just random encounters. For instance, one of his characters girlfriend just suddenly, out of the blue, turned into a nutcase, not even subtly, no gradual descent into madness, she just went crazy. And it started with one day she woke up and had no idea who he or anyone else was. Next day, all our crazy.

*pinches bridge of nose* It's like, for the love of god, if you're going to throw a drama party, for whatever stupid reason you can come up with, do it WELL please? So we don't have to sit there watching your attempts, unable to take you seriously and unable to come up with whatever response it is you're looking for.

I wonder what would happen if people just ignored these encounters, like they never even happened, or rp it out like your character doesn't believe any of it. I'm tempted to try it out, like purposely RP that my character really doesn't care (which they don't), or barely even notices their plight. And depending on the situation, finish off with a "Wow, you get some strange people."

And it really isn't OOC either, since in real life you can tell the difference between a real problem and poor acting. So why shouldn't our Cantr characters?

[ColormeGreen]

*pinches bridge of nose* It's like, for the love of god, if you're going to throw a drama party, for whatever stupid reason you can come up with, do it WELL please? So we don't have to sit there watching your attempts, unable to take you seriously and unable to come up with whatever response it is you're looking for.

I wonder what would happen if people just ignored these encounters, like they never even happened, or rp it out like your character doesn't believe any of it.

Most of my characters actually do this because they can't stand drama. It's very amusing. XD

...Until an enabler has to ruin it by reacting to the uncharacteristic craziness...

[BosBaBe]

*pinches bridge of nose* It's like, for the love of god, if you're going to throw a drama party, for whatever stupid reason you can come up with, do it WELL please? So we don't have to sit there watching your attempts, unable to take you seriously and unable to come up with whatever response it is you're looking for.

I wonder what would happen if people just ignored these encounters, like they never even happened, or rp it out like your character doesn't believe any of it.

Most of my characters actually do this because they can't stand drama. It's very amusing. XD

...Until an enabler has to ruin it by reacting to the uncharacteristic craziness...

You get a gold star and a cookie from me. xD I would love to see that.

[Cdls]

For instance, one of his characters girlfriend just suddenly, out of the blue, turned into a nutcase, not even subtly, no gradual descent into madness, she just went crazy.

Sort of had something like that happen to mine. Although it was more of an instant "I suddenly want someone else" type thing. As a player, it is annoying as hell when there is no actual reason given for it or any attempt to RP something leading up to it. Not gonna call out the specific character, but seriously...if you wanna go cyberbang your RL friend or whatever it was, have the decency to provide real closure.

Second annoyance, players who cannot differentiate between player and character. Would insert a rant here about it, but it would contain quite a few asterisk laced words and other things that I cannot put due to staff position. So, those with imagination, fill in the following: <<INSERT RANT HERE>>.

[*Wiro]

Second annoyance, players who cannot differentiate between player and character. Would insert a rant here about it, but it would contain quite a few asterisk laced words and other things that I cannot put due to staff position. So, those with imagination, fill in the following: <<INSERT RANT HERE>>.

im gonna kill your characters for that

[Cdls]

im gonna kill your characters for that :evil:

Mine?

[Mitch79]

Sort of had something like that happen to mine. Although it was more of an instant "I suddenly want someone else" type thing. As a player, it is annoying as hell when there is no actual reason given for it or any attempt to RP something leading up to it. Not gonna call out the specific character, but seriously...if you wanna go cyberbang your RL friend or whatever it was, have the decency to provide real closure.

Second annoyance, players who cannot differentiate between player and character.

Had this happen to a couple of mine. Certain players decided they just wanted a "change". Suddenly the characters went nuts or decided to off themselves. No decent reason for doing so and no reason in game for it. No problems between our characters in game. One day life was great then, just spontaneous craziness. And yeah, have to say it was irritating and annoying the way it all happened. At the time it just made me less interested in playing certain characters because they'd invested so much in their lives. So when the disruption happened and there was no in game reason for it all it just left my characters depressed and confused as to why it all happened and me as a player trying to figure out how to continue with the character. Had no idea how to continue the rp after that with those characters.

[computaertist]

Sort of had something like that happen to mine. Although it was more of an instant "I suddenly want someone else" type thing. As a player, it is annoying as hell when there is no actual reason given for it or any attempt to RP something leading up to it. Not gonna call out the specific character, but seriously...if you wanna go cyberbang your RL friend or whatever it was, have the decency to provide real closure.

Second annoyance, players who cannot differentiate between player and character.

Had this happen to a couple of mine. Certain players decided they just wanted a "change". Suddenly the characters went nuts or decided to off themselves. No decent reason for doing so and no reason in game for it. No problems between our characters in game. One day life was great then, just spontaneous craziness. And yeah, have to say it was irritating and annoying the way it all happened. At the time it just made me less interested in playing certain characters because they'd invested so much in their lives. So when the disruption happened and there was no in game reason for it all it just left my characters depressed and confused as to why it all happened and me as a player trying to figure out how to continue with the character. Had no idea how to continue the rp after that with those characters.

I am relieved to hear this is so common; I thought it had only happened to one of mine. Mine recovered, but I seriously considered just letting them go after that.

[hyrle]

Chris Rock said it best: "Whatever happened to crazy? What, you can't be crazy no more? Did we eliminate ''crazy'' from the dictionary?"

Sometimes people are just crazy. Crazy people don't need a reason... crazy is the reason.

[Genie]

Something similar just happened once for me and in a different way. Other char got sick and he forgot even himself. It has been a difficult period for my char not just because of his sickness but for some other chars were trying to get advantage of this situation and being mean to her. After a while he got healed and he fell for her again,sadly my char was very depressed and she couldn't respond him so well. When he got killed in big massacre they were finally sorting everything from the beggining.
Anyway that certain char of me kept me from quitting Cantr , because her death probably would make someones happy(or that was her belief) . So I can say some good came from the bad.

[Cdls]

Chris Rock said it best: "Whatever happened to crazy? What, you can't be crazy no more? Did we eliminate ''crazy'' from the dictionary?"

Sometimes people are just crazy. Crazy people don't need a reason... crazy is the reason.

I think you are misunderstanding. Crazy RPed well is awesome. Crazy out of nowhere and done with crap RP is not.

[NancyLee]

I think you are misunderstanding. Crazy RPed well is awesome. Crazy out of nowhere and done with crap RP is not.

I couldn't agree more.