Seldsum

Hi guys,
 
Just out of curiousity, how much do you guys think people will roleplay?
 
Will it be commonplace? Or do you think it will be more along the lines of games like Eve where there is a small part of the playerbase that actively roleplays while the majority of the playerbase then steamrolls over them going "omglol j00 suck!" ?
 
Looking at the different recruitment posts I think there may be a fair amount of roleplay going on in the universe of DU.

New civilian ship design! 

According to the interview with JC Baillie by Bicyclewalrus there will be cloaking technology, JC named it specificly.

I have probably missed something here, but I've only seen 2 recruitment posts (so technicly a single double post) and a forum PM.
 
How is that spamming? It could happen to anyone posting on the forums if they have a connection issue at the time they hit send on the original post.
 
But again, I probably missed something. Either way can we just step over this, shrug it off as a mistake and move on? Hostilities are fun ingame to create some content for people, on the forums hostilities serve no purpose and if we really want to entice more people to go for the game we would do well to keep the hostilities to a minimum in my humble opinion.
 
Either way, it's apparent that the situation has been dealt with by the leadership involved and we as a community should leave it at that.

Ah I see, in that case there are more culprits then just Solar Secure. I have more then one such invite from more then one source.
Not sure why people cant just respectfully decline and ignore the remainder of that message though.

I posted in one of the recent Ads for Solar Secure and gave them a bit of crap for spamming.
 
But just to be clear i was only giving them crap for the totally unsolicited private forum message.  It had nothing to do with double posting their recruitment message by mistake.  
 
The double post thing has to at least partially be caused by how these forums work.  I've seen more double posts on these forums then i ever have before.  Although i guess it might also have to do with so many more people posting using cellphones?
 
Anyway the issue for me was absolutely 100% about MMOTHEBOSS using the private messaging system to send out unsolicited recruitment messages.  That is just not what the messaging system is for.
 
No one deserves the level of vitriol that was spewed into that thread though.  But i also think it's important for some of the people who may be new to the world of constructive online gaming communities, and discussion forums, to be taught some of the basic ground rules that allow them to exist without turning into a cesspool.
 
This isn't an AOL chat room or a FPS lobby or whatever it is people think it is.
 
The only way you can WIN here is by helping to make the game better.  There is NO REWARD for having the highest post count.

If you want ship ideas, I would totally check out this website. You can put it any combination of any characters and it will generate a ship based on that, which is a seed. Put in absolutely nothing, and you get a random ship every time. But, whats more fun is to put in text, and see what ship it generates, because you can put in that same text later and it will generate the same ship. I've found it neat for inspiration, and there are definitely some super awesome ones that can generate, but unfortunately I can't think of any right now. Anyway, try it out:
 
http://ship.shapewright.com/
http://ship.shapewright.com/?name=ATMLVE
http://ship.shapewright.com/?name=Dual+Universe
 
I've put in 100+ characters in the name field before and it will still use every character as a seed to generate a new ship; and the same ship every time for that seed. I think the number of ships it can generate is limited only by how many characters you're willing to type in.

but you see, even after the spam had stopped people continued to be so toxic. I dont see why its so hard for people to stay calm and resolve the issue. I know this cause it happened to me after my rookie mistakes. 

I agree it is too similar, however unless I have some personality disorder I don't know about it is not me.
But yup, by all means investigate, IP traces should reveal the truth

Thank you for the replies.
 
After I hit submit on this thread I had found some info I failed to before, so my apologies for wasting your time