Post by flippmoke on Oct 20, 2009 17:29:10 GMT -5
Every iteration of OYW I see a whole variety of new people who come in and start playing the game and in the end, they are often disgruntled because their character does nothing, is mentioned in almost no battles and has no big impact on the game. I have played such a character before and there is a simple reason. Your character sucks.
Lets take a classic example: Star Trek
Who always dies when they leave the enterprise? A character that has a story that is still progressing or a character who has no story, or a character that has no real future developments.
Its simple: The person who the audience is most interested in seeing alive, general lives. The same is true with OYW.
So here is the short list of how to make your character not suck:
1. Actively Roleplay. If the writer knows nothing about your character (even if you have decided to write a profile) all they have to go off is how someone else wrote you in a battle and more then likely they didn't have much to write about you either. Therefore your character was boring so you are probably going to lose as the person who typically gets more lines written about them wins in battle. Roleplaying can add effectively more VP or CP then you would believe. Its simple, don't roleplay and you will suck and die.
2. Give him/her personality. If you are a very simple the result will be simple, you probably will be the first to die in a big battle. Adding depth to your character is important. If you have a profile and its a really simple, profile where you explain how awesome your character is in combat but really don't explain anything else. Make your character really vanilla and you will suck and die.
3. Interact with something. Endlessly reading the thoughts of one character as he overcomes his struggles to become just awesome is very generic and not really exciting. Do this constantly and you will suck and die.
4. Be descriptive. Set the scene when you are writing a RP. Its boring to read something that doesn't give the reader a mental image of the situation. If you are not descriptive, the battle writers and webmasters will not read your roleplaying and you will suck and die.
5. DO NOT ACT OUT OF CHARACTER. If you constantly write about how you are a heartless killer then you try to do something to save a teammate in need and you will 100% of the time suck and die.
6. Grammar, if you can't say thing properly with out typing it out and proof reading. (I have to do this all the time.) Then take your time. If you rush writing something and no one can understand it. You will suck and die.
Lets take a classic example: Star Trek
Who always dies when they leave the enterprise? A character that has a story that is still progressing or a character who has no story, or a character that has no real future developments.
Its simple: The person who the audience is most interested in seeing alive, general lives. The same is true with OYW.
So here is the short list of how to make your character not suck:
1. Actively Roleplay. If the writer knows nothing about your character (even if you have decided to write a profile) all they have to go off is how someone else wrote you in a battle and more then likely they didn't have much to write about you either. Therefore your character was boring so you are probably going to lose as the person who typically gets more lines written about them wins in battle. Roleplaying can add effectively more VP or CP then you would believe. Its simple, don't roleplay and you will suck and die.
2. Give him/her personality. If you are a very simple the result will be simple, you probably will be the first to die in a big battle. Adding depth to your character is important. If you have a profile and its a really simple, profile where you explain how awesome your character is in combat but really don't explain anything else. Make your character really vanilla and you will suck and die.
3. Interact with something. Endlessly reading the thoughts of one character as he overcomes his struggles to become just awesome is very generic and not really exciting. Do this constantly and you will suck and die.
4. Be descriptive. Set the scene when you are writing a RP. Its boring to read something that doesn't give the reader a mental image of the situation. If you are not descriptive, the battle writers and webmasters will not read your roleplaying and you will suck and die.
5. DO NOT ACT OUT OF CHARACTER. If you constantly write about how you are a heartless killer then you try to do something to save a teammate in need and you will 100% of the time suck and die.
6. Grammar, if you can't say thing properly with out typing it out and proof reading. (I have to do this all the time.) Then take your time. If you rush writing something and no one can understand it. You will suck and die.
