IRE Asks: If emotes earned experience, would your grin become a grind?

yes.

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most orgs have some means of advancement that is going to involve interaction in some way, whether it's guild tasks or earning chops in your divine order.  The amount you participate in them is up to you.  Trying to organize a hard-coded RP4XP system comes as a bit arbitrary, and people will find ways to game it.

I played an old MUD that had a lot of non-combat options to level up your character. It was a lot of fun, though there wasn't anything comparable to Dragon in Achaea to aspire to with levels.

That yes my grin would become a grind

Just dropped a few points. Was it this article or the third pint of beer?

You be the judge,,,

That being said, I do think a fraction of an experience point be awarded for advanced emotes like:

IMP HEEL TURN SAY I wanna fly! :)

"Vult smiles, turns on his heels and proclaims with an impish grin'I wanna fly!"

auto emoting would be a major problem. Worse then auto hunting or fishing

Too easy to  automate and score experience

There's a purity around roleplay right now, where everyone who participates in it seriously does it for its own sake, not because it gives you combat benefits, etc.  It tells you that people who are using tmotes are probably interested in storytelling or conversation about IC theology, and as such works as a useful flag for which players might be worth interacting with if you are looking for roleplay as well.  If this is implemented, it'd have to somehow avoid undermining this purity and cheapening roleplay.

Yeah, it would be super easy to level. You'd gain levels faster... but it would be super annoying. The influence system in Lusternia is a good way to sort of implement this kind of thing, and the way it ripples throughout other aspects of the game, such as culture and the power of communes and cities, is a great aspect. Much better than just grinning for XP.

It could work out really well!

I'd grin so hard.

Hmm. I definitely prefer hunting, but Aetolia has a richer RP environment than Achaea most of the time. I could see some exp coming from RPing in some ways, but I wouldn't like to see it become a main source of leveling.

no, just no. Grinning to dragon is a bit weird. But a grin to earn a lessons. Once per day would be neat

I would love to see experience for forging, enchanting, milking, harvesting, and whatever alchemists do. Not everyone enjoys mindlessly killing things for hours and hours. Let those of us who are "grinding" in our own ways get some experience with that. Maybe reaching level 100 that way you could be a different sort of dragon, or a unicorn or something.  Experience from emoting and role playing is silly. You are supposed to be rping anyway.

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Why doesn't harvesting herbs give XP?

I definitely don't see this working for generic emoting, even as technical as one can get with them. We -really- don't need any more excuse for sex alts (GTFO SEX ALTS!!!). Anyways, I think rather than merely being able to say 'yay, my name's in an event post!' those that actively participate (not just show up to get in yet one more post... Delphinus!) would get bonus exp gifted by the Divine(s) running said event(s).

I would grin all the way to dragon.

Just make it for custom emotes of X length!

I don't think it is possible nor practical to put an exp value on rp.

I'd rather see it as an additional bonus to your experience. Bashing would remain the grind itself. Of course, everything can and will be abused by some. It is an admin's job to adress those few, not to punish the rest of us.

Will rofl all of the way to dragon.

That type of model really appeals to me. I like the learn what you do. I guess weapon proficiencies are the closest thing we got.

yes

'least the picture is funny

in their imagination..

wat

it would definitely help my char, since he's a poet and an artist, he doesn't always have time for more than simply interacting with others, so it'd definitely help along the lines of gaining experience, but also, it'd be pretty hard to get out to hunt for anything more than for the sake of food (rajamala's rule in this regard), and my char could devote more time to his art and stuff.

Point? Everyone would be dragon the other day.

No my grin wouldn't become a grind, it would become  a scripted smile.

signs point to yes

no more stock emotes. Just no

should rp not bring its own rewards?  Strikes me that the "achievers" and the "socializers" don't overlap so much.

I think it'd help out non-combatants

I like the idea of rewarding good roleplayers with experience, but it would have to be monitored somehow, as giving experience simply for using emotes would be easily abused.

but emoting for it seems a bad idea.

I'd be sad if this happened

In other words, "Would you grind GRIND for experience?"

I'd use them more.

it would

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balanceless emotes ftw

I love grinding an certainly wouldn't "drop it". However I welcome everything that helps people getting more immersed in their role...

With the complex organisational hierarchies that already exist within Iron Realms' games - houses, cities, orders - there are generally already a set of rewards other than raw experience points. If all you're interested in is getting as high a level as possible, then you probably wouldn't have the patience to earn experience by working for an imaginary organisation, it would be more rewarding imaginarily slaying imaginary creatures.

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