Got a little sidetracked. Sorry.
Last week's lecture was interested in MMORPGs, MUDs, MUVEs and, most memorably, Greifing. An interesting little history lesson, stating with Adventure! ("There's a coffin!"), on to MUDs (I played one or two of those), through Ultima Online, Lineage and World of Warcraft (too expensive, get a job!). I always had fun playing these types of games, co-operative adventure/RPGs. It's one of my favourite genres. Paul, though, has had bad experiences with online RPGs, and I can see how that could happen. His expeiences are not due to griefers, more due to (bad analagy time) "religous" gamers who, zealous in thier beliefs, want to "convert" players to thier own personal gameplaying style. (apologies to anyone who dislikes my analagy)
Having been told about griefing in the lecture, we then went on to experience it in the lab. The lab was fun. A SL speed building challange. Best Allan's chip shop in 2 hours wins. So, off we hopped to a public sandbox, starting to make some little progress, when people started flying off the sim in cages. Turns out that some eejit (I've been censored) called Grimm was firing things at us. This slowed us down for a bit, but the other group won out- and this looked to be the most likely outcome in any case.
Far from the madding crowd, however, I've made a kilt, sporran, sgian dubh, montrose doublet, and crevat. and I've scripted a box that sells them. my group were looking for a box to put stuff in, I can do it now. So, I've finally made myself useful. lol
I want to make stuff, but I have to work on my project! MUST DO PROJECT! PROJECT!
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yeah was a shame about that guy firing you guys about. I feel bad for laughing about it... kinda lol Just couldnt stop laughing at Paul's face when he was falling from the sky for about 5 minutes after he was shot so high *snigger*
Thanks for the pic of the complete outfit.
I'll try and see if I can find a good spot for a shop for the class to use to sell stuff.
I have to agree with the "religious" gamer analogy... some people really do get stupidly caught up in things. I know there are certain principles of etiquette to follow, and I understand people getting a wee bit frustrated at the occassional half-wit newbie... but sometimes it does just go too far.
Given the powers of bannage which exist in many games, do you think some griefers are actually trying to be virtual suicide bombers? :)
I've actually witnessed virtual suicide bombers. These are the people who say "lets see now long it takes us to get chucked out!" some of them are actually quite hardcore gamers. Using a second account if course.
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