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Questions about dreamstrike and role playing

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Re: Questions about dreamstrike and role playing

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I've got a question. How does being dreamstruck affect a dreamers shardic life ? is there any history regarding this at all ?

Besides the obvious boredom..
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And I agree with Inzoum. If you can wake at will any other time, you can wake under the threat of dreamstrike. You'd have to either claim that everyone who suddenly has to wake as not rp'ing or add something to the effects of dreamstrike preventing such.
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Whether it's the coward's way out is a debate on personality and character, but either way, it's an acceptable way out.
I disagree. If you're looking for a hard fast rule as far as waking goes, there is none and with good reason. It requires a lot of time to monitor. No GM team in the history of this game has really enforced a hard fast rule prohibiting waking to exploit the software, but if you are waking to avoid the consequences of your decisions to fight, you can rest assured there's a good chance a GM will care. Battle-waking has never been acceptable conduct.

Fr3y, you wouldn't have to claim everyone who wakes out of combat of their own volition is not RP'ing to find a valid complaint in someone exploiting the function to avoid the consequences of their own decisions to engage in combat.
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I disagree wholeheartedly. "Battlewaking" has it's own system of punishment IC. There's even a word for it in Maren, dargonn, battlewaker. There is a social stigma about battlewaking, and in the old days it was a supreme act of cowardice. Now, the social norm has become more liberal and while general battlewaking would likely still be frowned upon, in extreme cases, such as dreamstrike, the social implications are minimal, since most of the community agrees that it's not some egregious breach of normal societal protocol.
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Re: Questions about dreamstrike and role playing

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Uthanatos wrote:I disagree wholeheartedly. "Battlewaking" has it's own system of punishment IC. There's even a word for it in Maren, dargonn, battlewaker. There is a social stigma about battlewaking, and in the old days it was a supreme act of cowardice. Now, the social norm has become more liberal and while general battlewaking would likely still be frowned upon, in extreme cases, such as dreamstrike, the social implications are minimal, since most of the community agrees that it's not some egregious breach of normal societal protocol.
Most of the community doesn't have to try and keep people playing fair. If you cheat to avoid the consequences of your decision to engage in a fight then you deserve the consequences of whatever a GM decides is appropriate as a deterrent for that act. Battlewaking has no IC consequence. Literally none. You can make them up, but they don't exist as rules. The three rules do apply though. Interpreting a response to violating those rules isn't for the community to do but GM alone.
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I think it'd be interesting if they added some real consequence to waking as a soulsphere. Maybe something like a temporary dreamsoul loss where you lose 5 of your max dreamsoul for 2 days after waking as a soulsphere with the timer resetting and you losing 5 more each time you wake in that time period.
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Malarky wrote:
Whether it's the coward's way out is a debate on personality and character, but either way, it's an acceptable way out.
No GM team in the history of this game has really enforced a hard fast rule prohibiting waking to exploit the software, but if you are waking to avoid the consequences of your decisions to fight, you can rest assured there's a good chance a GM will care. Battle-waking has never been acceptable conduct.
Exactly. I never played Lyra, so I don't know how strict they were about it, but in Shades of Truth, the GMs did punish people for battle waking. We also were encouraged to report any battle waking we witnessed.

In fact, just the term "battle waking" was OOC, for some reason. One player decided to accuse a member in my house of doing it and just because a group of us were there at the time it was said IC, we all got docked XP. (It ended up getting returned to those it was wrongly taken from, though.)

I've always thought it was a lame way out and would often get annoyed when someone would wake out of a ward trap I set. I believe battle waking was the reason SoT implemented "enter where you wake".
Sidas wrote:I think it'd be interesting if they added some real consequence to waking as a soulsphere. Maybe something like a temporary dreamsoul loss where you lose 5 of your max dreamsoul for 2 days after waking as a soulsphere with the timer resetting and you losing 5 more each time you wake in that time period.
Agreed, a real penalty would be nice. Even a few orbits instead of a small chunk of XP might work, as that would run the risk of losing a sphere, depending on your orbit.
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I've stormed as a soulsphere before.. not willingly sometimes due to to many people in the fight causeing to much lag or the occasional recall storm crossing planes.. why should people get docked orbits and spheres if they don't do it intentionally, because the system wont discriminate
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The IC story is that waking as a soulsphere is very dangerous and costly. It should be painful for the character. 1% XP loss clearly isn't enough to make people think twice about just logging out the second they float, so it should be more.

Using IC means of escape should always be the primary first response. Waking to travel, escape a fight, or even escape Dreamstrike should be frowned upon.
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It's very rare to storm as a soulsphere, and if people do with this added penalty, they might decide against denying restore just so they can float and observe or taking their time to get to sanctuary. IC, our avatars shield our raw defenseless soulspheres. We should always do what we can to return our coherence as quick as possible. If the Recall bug happened, the GMs might be willing to return the losses for those certain instances.
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Re: Questions about dreamstrike and role playing

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Sorry but in real life when I have one of those dreams where I'm about to die.. I wake myself up. Battlewaking vs dreamstrike waking are entirely different plus it forced even greater results when Zaxun figured out a method to stop one from waking. More role play.. IMO if you wake avoiding death cool, but if you wake avoiding a collapse? You are battlewaking at that moment. That's really all there is to it.
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