I am not sure what would be the solution, maybe have the club barkeep toss someone who is just idling at a bar to the streets? Something about the cover charge.
Deal with it IC. Maybe mention it to the bar staff, maybe mention it to your chum with the high end firepower... Nobody likes being spied on or watched.
Anyone think treating disguised idlers as a potential threat is small worldy? I think they look suspicious as hell.
Deal with it IC. Maybe mention it to the bar staff, maybe mention it to your chum with the high end firepower... Nobody likes being spied on or watched.
Anyone think treating disguised idlers as a potential threat is small worldy? I think they look suspicious as hell.
But then you come in, want to rp, and have to weirdly deal with someone being non-reactive and yet not asleep, and in RP watering holes of all places.
My point is that they are IC, and have chosen to be IC (in probably 99%+ of cases), so standing there doing nothing for hours *is* their RP as far as you're concerned.
Deal with it accordingly... ;)
On the flip side I also encourage you to not have your character ignore another character's IC action or inaction because they are 'best buds' and go idle on you. If my character's 'best bud' is following them then they just go idle and stop talking to my character, I will probably have my character treat it as an offense. What kind of chum does that? Following me around all sullen and refusing to talk...
If someone's slowly supping at a pint, minding their biz, legit. Nodding their head to the beats? Yep. Oggling the monas? Yup. Standing stock still for over half an hour? Shady as f***.
That's not to say afk players don't annoy me. They 100% do... all those wasted sic messages.
If you're not @ooc or logged off you're RPing, even if you're off window or AFK. If you're doing -nothing- I'm assuming you're watching (you are becuase you're logged in, so you can review it all at your leisure), and I think that's more than justified on both an OOC and IC level.
Don't want to get treated as if you're creeping, use the tools available to not look like a creep (log off or go @ooc).
XD I'm not angry at idlers, that's their call, but I'm not going to let myself get spied on or vatted just because other people think I should ignore static characters. (How many room descs describe completely static ambient pop, by the way? ;) )
But if you're certain someone is idle and you want to RP with them, you can always do something innocuous to spur RP later, like writing a letter and giving/planting it on them, then go about your biz elsewhere.
Go to your local bar, whack on a hood or don't and see how tables of people react to you when you stand within eavesdropping distance of them while you stare blankly at the floor.
I don't see the controversy here myself. Sometimes people have to run afk with no warning, but people actually go to bars and afk idle expecting to be invisible. That's meta to me, there's literally no reason to do it except you want to eavesdrop with no consequences or effort.
As I said before I'm going to treat the statues as weird and potentially dangerous bakas unless staff say otherwise. :)
