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06-Oct-2017 13:21:50

Ezklov

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This guide is incredibly out-dated and needs a revamp or an entire new guide should be remade altogether and stickied over this. I feel that it's off-putting to possible new roleplayers when a stickied guide to the entire idea of roleplay on W42 is out-dated by nearly an entire year or more in some areas. It makes it seem dead, which is what we should try to avoid.

EDIT: After delving further, I've found that it is also far too complex in almost every area. It should be legible to a knot on a log and shouldn't take more than seven to ten minutes to get past the basics. Most of it also seems to be in jest, which is terribly unprofessional and only adds to confusion and inefficiency. To add, it also repeats the other guide in multiple areas in similar levels of detail.
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03-Jan-2018 11:14:51 - Last edited on 03-Jan-2018 11:48:36 by Ezklov

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04-Jan-2018 08:58:31

Ezklov

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No, I don't think it's a good idea. Having designed guides for other communities and optimized them to be concise and efficient to read, whilst retaining professionalism and comedic detail when necessary rather than throughout every other line, I would say that malpractice is prevalent in this article.

Definitions are too lengthy and jump around throughout, thread hyperlinks linking to active roleplay groups are out-dated by more than a year's time, and a lot of the "comedy" involved is unnecessary and, as said, confuses people. A "base line" product that is expected of roleplayers should never be set in stone by guiding someone on how specifically to "do" and "don't" is off-putting and does not allow much lee-way for a new-coming roleplayer to spread their wings and fly, fall and try, try, try again.

It is how we all reached our current point of aptitude, and how all should come to reach it. If an experienced, seasoned individual has trouble sifting through jargon that could be slimmed down to an adequate, summarized text without needless, superfluous comedy then that is surely reason enough to make change where necessary. I much rather avoid impatience when reading and get to the point with one to two-lined definitions for something rather than a confusing paragraph answer and joke at the end.
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04-Jan-2018 17:05:09 - Last edited on 04-Jan-2018 17:21:43 by Ezklov

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