To me, the Exiles don't get enough coverage in the canon, and I don't mind when someone RPs an Exile in a sane, reasonable, non-god-moding manner. I'm one of those players myself, and I really don't like seeing Exile RP lumped into the same category as the one or two wack-jobs who gave other Exilic RPers a bad reputation, merely because they were the most visible. Squeeky wheels getting the most oil, etc. I'd say we could use an expansion pack that would allow a player the room to create an Exilic character, but that's a moot point and it's also going off-topic.

Honestly, this just seems like its something people want for their own roleplay stories. Every other FX reward has something to do with the storyline, these don't.

MatrixRefugee wrote:

To me, the Exiles don't get enough coverage in the canon, and I don't mind when someone RPs an Exile in a sane, reasonable, non-god-moding manner. I'm one of those players myself, and I really don't like seeing Exile RP lumped into the same category as the one or two wack-jobs who gave other Exilic RPers a bad reputation, merely because they were the most visible. Squeeky wheels getting the most oil, etc. I'd say we could use an expansion pack that would allow a player the room to create an Exilic character, but that's a moot point and it's also going off-topic.

I'm pretty sure non-operative players are frowned upon in terms of MxO canon.

eval wrote:

MatrixRefugee wrote:

To me, the Exiles don't get enough coverage in the canon, and I don't mind when someone RPs an Exile in a sane, reasonable, non-god-moding manner. I'm one of those players myself, and I really don't like seeing Exile RP lumped into the same category as the one or two wack-jobs who gave other Exilic RPers a bad reputation, merely because they were the most visible. Squeeky wheels getting the most oil, etc. I'd say we could use an expansion pack that would allow a player the room to create an Exilic character, but that's a moot point and it's also going off-topic.

I'm pretty sure non-operative players are frowned upon in terms of MxO canon.

Indeed.  It's like RP'ing a dragon in WoW and asking Blizzard for dragon wings for your gnome.

But, with the new RSI capture tools, players can RP exiles in the asthetic sense and look like an exile. 

1. Farm an RSI Capture Tool of your choice

2. Make an alt with an Exilic background and name

3. Give them the RCT.

4. ???

5. Profit

ArchDuke wrote:

eval wrote:

MatrixRefugee wrote:

To me, the Exiles don't get enough coverage in the canon, and I don't mind when someone RPs an Exile in a sane, reasonable, non-god-moding manner. I'm one of those players myself, and I really don't like seeing Exile RP lumped into the same category as the one or two wack-jobs who gave other Exilic RPers a bad reputation, merely because they were the most visible. Squeeky wheels getting the most oil, etc. I'd say we could use an expansion pack that would allow a player the room to create an Exilic character, but that's a moot point and it's also going off-topic.

I'm pretty sure non-operative players are frowned upon in terms of MxO canon.

Indeed.  It's like RP'ing a dragon in WoW and asking Blizzard for dragon wings for your gnome.

 

But, with the new RSI capture tools, players can RP exiles in the asthetic sense and look like an exile. 

1. Farm an RSI Capture Tool of your choice

2. Make an alt with an Exilic background and name

3. Give them the RCT.

4. ???

5. Profit

Uh, no, they can roleplay looking like an exile leader. That means roleplaying as an important, named character like Jack the Hack.

GodTier wrote:

ArchDuke wrote:

eval wrote:

MatrixRefugee wrote:

To me, the Exiles don't get enough coverage in the canon, and I don't mind when someone RPs an Exile in a sane, reasonable, non-god-moding manner. I'm one of those players myself, and I really don't like seeing Exile RP lumped into the same category as the one or two wack-jobs who gave other Exilic RPers a bad reputation, merely because they were the most visible. Squeeky wheels getting the most oil, etc. I'd say we could use an expansion pack that would allow a player the room to create an Exilic character, but that's a moot point and it's also going off-topic.

I'm pretty sure non-operative players are frowned upon in terms of MxO canon.

Indeed.  It's like RP'ing a dragon in WoW and asking Blizzard for dragon wings for your gnome.

 

But, with the new RSI capture tools, players can RP exiles in the asthetic sense and look like an exile. 

1. Farm an RSI Capture Tool of your choice

2. Make an alt with an Exilic background and name

3. Give them the RCT.

4. ???

5. Profit

Uh, no, they can roleplay looking like an exile leader. That means roleplaying as an important, named character like Jack the Hack.

I know this.  I'm just saying it's a step in the direction.

If this were a year and a half to two years ago, we'd have half a million Sylphia's running around.

While the idea of wings is a cool one, I would prefer the fx to be kept in the vein of story related stuff.. especially with the changes coming to the way the fx will work where they are all nearly perpetuals.  Actually, I can see a lot more people grinding out the flame virus with the new near perpetual status... and that, even though it's story related, is something that would stick out just as badly as the wings would.

As for the argument as to what is acceptable RP and what isn't.. really, that's a pretty argument to be having in the first place.  As long as the RP is done well enough and fits within the universe (which angels, vampires, lupines, non plain jane operatives, etc. do) I see nothing wrong with it.  It's also not like Player X choosing to RP something different somehow hurts your own experience.  If they for some reason bother you that much, just use the /ignore function.  Problem solved, and everyone gets what they want.

Gerik wrote:

Honestly, this just seems like its something people want for their own roleplay stories. Every other FX reward has something to do with the storyline, these don't.

What did the War Sword have to do with the story? Or even the Ninja Scarf (which was based on content, not story)?

monkeymanx8 wrote:

Gerik wrote:

Honestly, this just seems like its something people want for their own roleplay stories. Every other FX reward has something to do with the storyline, these don't.

What did the War Sword have to do with the story? Or even the Ninja Scarf (which was based on content, not story)?

Didn't the sword come out for chapter 8 when the war was back on between Machines and Humans? Also, yeah I missed the scarf, sorry, I stopped getting any of these after Seraphic Vision came out.

Gerik wrote:

Didn't the sword come out for chapter 8 when the war was back on between Machines and Humans?

I guess this has some relevance, but barely.

I can see a lot of the con points-of-view and agree with most of them. But I must ask the obvious question as to why angel wings, from Seraphim Agents or Past Agents, doesn't qualify as storyline?

Regarding /ignore for RP, there is also Ctl+F for FX. Not that I like doing this, I actually don't like doing it ever since Meretrix hit 50 and didn't get her screenie of "Level Up" becuase she had Ctl+F due to morons in Mara healing people for no funky reason.

But the option is there, and in the spirit of The Matrix: The problem is choice.

Vesuveus wrote:

I can see a lot of the con points-of-view and agree with most of them. But I must ask the obvious question as to why angel wings, from Seraphim Agents or Past Agents, doesn't qualify as storyline?

It does qualify as storyline and canon, but only in the sense that it refers to the Agent Angels.  It's ok for them to have them because that's what they are, and they're being pulled out of their constructs representing earlier versions of the Matrix.  The current Matrix doesn't support people to have wings and fly around since the "Paradise" formula was abandoned. 

I know it's kinda nit-picky.  But, I think it boils down to what an operative of Zion, Machines, or the Merv can obtain as a human RSI within the parameters of the Matrix story.  Code eyes are feasable because the Unlimit used cheat codes and theoretically an operative could've found one.  Flame Virus... yeah, the jury's still out on that one.

Angel wings are just over the line between Canon and 400-year-old-lesbian-vampires.

Vesuveus wrote:

I can see a lot of the con points-of-view and agree with most of them. But I must ask the obvious question as to why angel wings, from Seraphim Agents or Past Agents, doesn't qualify as storyline?

Regarding /ignore for RP, there is also Ctl+F for FX. Not that I like doing this, I actually don't like doing it ever since Meretrix hit 50 and didn't get her screenie of "Level Up" becuase she had Ctl+F due to morons in Mara healing people for no funky reason.

But the option is there, and in the spirit of The Matrix: The problem is choice.

That says it in a nutshell. If another person wants to RP a plain-vanilla Redpill, that's fine by me. My main is a plain-vanilla Redpill, but I have an Exile alt who feeds off the code of other Exiles. Not that she goes around biting the necks of other Exile RPers, she just likes to mow through the gang spawn. It's just me thinking a little outside the box.