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My intent is to help. I, again, apologize for my snark - I was running on about 4 hours of sleep when I wrote my original post.

As for events and what the faction system represents, you and I disagree entirely. Most of my mudding experience has been in heavily conflict-driven IREs. I spent probably 5-6 years as an Eleusian in Achaea, another 3-4 years in various orgs in Lusternia, and I played Midkemia (arguably a mud that was entirely driven by conflict) from day one to close.

This conflict RP worked because, in all of the above, each org represented a specific spot on a morality chart. They were manufactured that way. Starmourn is less so. Scatterhome loosely stands for freedom and anarchy, Song is heavily militaristic, and Celestine is late-stage capitalism. That's a basic fact. But none of these aspects necessitate or even imply a hard "we should go to war" response.


This, compared to Achaea (as an example) where a conflict between Shallam (The late city of light) and Mhaldor (the city of evil) made a lot of sense. Forcing conflict between the Starmourn factions is a bit like saying "Okay, lets put the USA, France, and Russia all to war because why not?" It's possible (especially in today's geopolitical politics) that a war could unfold between these countries, but if we placed them in a fantasy game and send them to war just because, it wouldn't make much sense, and justifying it because "these countries are kinda different from each other" is a flimsy excuse at best.

As I've stated above, roleplay that naturally leads to conflict is fine. But I strongly object to the Storytelling Team railroading the factions into conflict, especially coming from MKO, where railroaded conflict was a driving force behind the inter-org out-of-game hostility, which in turn was a driving force behind MKO's shutting down.

Big world events are cool though. Let's see an invasion or something. We have lots of bad guys for it. I don't think events need to be limited to world-shattering blockbuster events, but I'm happy to have them.

Flipilaria said:

@Kirin I've written a guide which may be helpful to you while the Storytellers cook up some world events.

https://forums.starmourn.com/discussion/1044/notice-me-senpai-a-guide-to-getting-storyteller-admin-rp#latest

As an aside, I am very nervous about any world events that "force" interfactional confrontation. I am very okay with it unfolding naturally, but I think events that have a "Which Player Faction Will Win??" vibe end up causing people to engage with the event in a manner more akin to a sportsball match than an RP session.

Very kind of you to put together a guide. I’m not sure if your idea is to belittle me or a genuine attitude to help.

I think you are mistaken in thinking that lack of events means lack of RP opportunities. There are plenty of those around both player driven and storyteller driven. 

Your definition of an event and mine are different. While you are satisfied with interacting with people and sharing small stories. I want broader world scale events. Events that mean strife and shared victories and losses. Common enemies and friends. Things that people talk about for ages. We are entitled to our differences. And while you choose to be snarky about it, I say I am entitled to my opinion. The idea is to create common stories that every one can talk about across generations.

I also believe that the faction system exists to create conflict. there is little point in having a faction system if everyone could simply live in an eternal state of peace. In Starmourn unfortunately things are kind of like that. and in such cases, it becomes both player and admin responsibility to create arcs that lead to more conflict and more interactions.

Please contact your local storyteller today, especially if you have any ideas. That's why they're there.

Unless you're Celestine. RIP.

Also, don't uh... don't discount the large scale events we have had. Tranquility Deepness was really cool, as was the Ry'nari thing in Song. Vega got kidnapped! 

I know it's been said that we'll be getting it soon (TM), but we could really use a HELPMOD NEW function for suggesting new helpfiles. It would really help everyone out if the players were able to pick up some of the slack and help document new/old features that only ever get an announce post to explain them, forcing new and old players alike to hunt down said posts via NEWS SEARCH or the forums and hope that the information in them is current.