Stargate LRP (SEF)

JT · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 207 Location: Murrietta, CA

Personally, I find someone shouting my name at me breaks my immersion. Additionally, it disadvantages the person who doesn't know my name, who has equal right to cause effect. Some people are just poor with names. The idea that I should have to try to commit to memory the real names of 30-40 people at event is just a gamebreaker.

Moreover, what happens when you don't know that person's name? Do you rely on the idea that someone else will know it and leave them to deal with it? Do you break character to ask someone else? or do you revert to a purely descriptive call?

When I'm in character, or in monster, the only time I want my name shouted at me is by a ref, medic, or other member of the event staff.

As I've said before, I find the confusion engendered by combat in this system to be an advantage. It greatly adds to the immersion. If a call is unclear or ill-defined, then it should not have effect. Calls should be made for precise effect. It is for refs to get involved and tell people to slow down or annunciate or better indicate.the target, just as much as to ensure that targets take effects.
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Richard Tyler · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 413 Location: Cardiff

if you are the only person the player team know by name you will be shot at a lot more fersure Smile

We did take some coloured velcro ties to the last event, the idea being you wore them around your arm so you could be 'green jaffa' or 'ref jaffa' but we didn't get around to using them. They probably would have dissolved in the wet Very Happy

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Dangermouse · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 196 Location: Bristol

Green Sniper needs food, badly.

Given the frenetic pace of combat I have no problem with someone shouting my real name - its just a tag. I don`t know every players name (or their character name even) so to be honest the names don`t mean alot and don`t break the "immersion". If anything they help it since there`s less bickering over who did or didn`t get shot.
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Colour Sargent Rob Knight · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

I agree names should be used if nesecery to indicate targets, I know that on the mission before last, my shooting improved a lot when I started using names, it makes it esayier and faster, but I often find in the heat of combat I forget for an instant, (Which is critical) ooc names, on that same mission I was shooting at James, I knew it was james, but it took me a second to rember I knew and in that time he was out of site, not his fault at all, mine for fumbleing the ball.

I think people should do the best they can, if they know/ can rember the ooc name use it as it saves confusion, if not do the best they can and keep your ears open for calls which are meant to be you.
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Richard Tyler · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 413 Location: Cardiff

1/3 the crew at the last event were called James Very Happy

Fenric · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 3410

28.57% actually, unless you take the fact that Dave and Woody crewed friday night when it's 1/3rd.

I like math.
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Theo · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

I've never had a problem with players or crew using names (either IC or OOC) to identify targets. Sure, it might not be 'real' but nor is pointing a plastic gun at a man in foam armour and shouting 'You By The Tree!' to shoot at him. So long as you clearly designate your target so that they know who you're firing at then that is good enough. I would even go as far to say that, often, names are even necessary in the mayhem of a big fight or one in the dark.

Of course refs are also on hand to help out the deafys and the oblivious but its pretty poor form to know someone is shooting you because they're calling your name, and you not taking the hits properly just because its not quasi real enough for your taste (and i know i've had to rebuke people for that in the past before).

There really isn't any other way to do it, is there? The main thing is communicating who your target is and so long as you're doing that then its always a valid call. ('Old Man!' has probs been my fave ever identifier *grin*)

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