lumipharon wrote:
There is a big fucking difference between getting to knowing people (which is what anyone with atleast the mental capacity of a toaster will achieve), and actually metafriending. ie: Knowing Dick McTickler always starts fights, so when someone accuses him of assault, you're more inclined to believe them. As opposed to: hearing that Dick McTicker and someone are in a fight, so you run over and beat the other person to death without any context.
Indeed to use an example from another server over on d20 we have lone lee being really touchy around silicons so the ai knows to be careful around him it's not a perfect example because the crew on a larger server would stop the ai killers shit but the basic idea of saying somebody should not use what they know about somebody's personality being stupid remains the same.
And in my experience almost all use of prior knowledge of a character is people having negative opinions of somebody for instance I spend far less time getting zoey Webb to cooperate in interrogation then anybody else and she ends up in perma far more rapidly for it.
Some might say that that just goes from metafriending to metagrudging but there's a difrence between searching a clown known for shaving people bald if you see broken mirrors or missing shavers and just instantly arresting them without evidence or giving them a 10 minuite sentence for shaving people when you would give anybody else 2.
Anybody except for a clown, mime, Borg or ai using a static name is stupid anyway but if your going to have it on a server you have to accept there will be effects on the game.