Actually it’s not flawed, it’s straight up fucked up.
Tell me, do you roleplay?
- Yes
- No
0 voters
If you just voted yes, good job, liar, because you don’t. If you just voted no, then you probably know what I’m about to say.
Firestone is not a roleplay state.
Exactly, screw this “Firestone is roleplay” thing, it’s not roleplay, and it wasn’t for a long time already. If you voted yes, then you will probably say “Oh, but Doktor, we have the FRP guide, and the roleplay rules and all that kind of stuff”. I’ll just say, that it’s useless and dumb. Nobody in Firestone roleplays, and I am 99% sure that if there would be no such rules in Firestone, Firestone would be much better in that sense.
All the people who just voted yes are, I’m pretty sure, people who lie not only to people around them, but to themself as well. So who are you, a person, who just voted yes? Another criminal who just sped off from a traffic stop, and then calls LEOs FRPers because they rushed you with a baton instead of doing HRS? Another police officer, who just ignored several people speeding infront of him, because “they are FRPers and copbaiters”? Another civillian, that pretends to be sick with a random ass disease that causes him to vomit on everyone around him for no apparent reason? Im sure you are one of these people who blame others for not roleplaying when they don’t care about roleplay by themself as well. I do not roleplay, and I am saying that without hesitation, so stop lying and admit it as well.
Now, let me explain why exactly Firestone Roleplay is so fucked up:
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The FRP guide. Oh, I hate that thing so much. This is not a guide related to roleplay, this is a game rules guide, and the rules are retarded. First, it is not there to define boundaries between roleplay and what would be no roleplay, it is there to tell you what you just can’t do while covering itself with fancy roleplay terms like “Metagaming”, and then it tells you that you should follow it or else… nothing most of the time, but there is a chance that you will get banned! A lot of actions, that would be considered not roleplay are also not covered in this guide too such as immersion breaking, for example. This FRP guide exists not to uphold roleplay or protect it, but to stop people from being annoying, while mixing in unnecessary roleplay aspects, that, without other necessary roleplay aspects, make them rather annoying, than useful. There should be a roleplay guide instead, that would cover all roleplay aspects and actually protect and uphold roleplay.
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Even what FRP guide has is useless, because mods can’t uphold it. They try to, but they can’t, because they don’t have tools to do so, and because a system that relies on people to abide the rules, when people who join Firestone do not care about roleplay most of the time, is retarded. For example, mods in V2 can only view 1 person at a time and people around them, they can’t just, for example, freely fly around the county to see what’s up. They don’t have any flow of information they can analyse either. They don’t have a normal live updated chat log that covers what all the people in the county say. They don’t have a live action log, that would let them track certain things like people shooting eachother or something, so if there is no proof of a rule violation nobody can do anything if the mod didn’t see it by himself. They don’t have a live feedback form or anything like that, where people could instantly report a rule violation to an ingame mod without having to go on Discord. Job of a mod is analysing information and tracking players, not sitting at the bus stop in V2 and looking out for people who are stupid enough to do something near a mod. Trust me on this point, I have enough experience of being a mod to say this.
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The game is open access, which means that anybody can join the game. That is not the true issue, the true issue is that the people who join are not guided. They are not notified with “hey, this is a roleplay game, we highly suggest you read our rules at blah blah before you start playing!”, they are not constantly tracked by mods either, who could remove them before its too early. (Refer to point 2) As well, the people who join are not filtered to even be competent, to see if they can even understand what this game is and what to do. This is planned to be solved by making V3 be paid access with 25 robux, however this is not the best decision, since it limits access to only people who have robux.
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Using /me’s aka -opens door- kind of things instead of actual tools or gameplay actions is autistic. Using such things should not be mandatory in the first place. If there is no tool for it, you should not be required to do the action message. If there is a tool for it, it should not be required either. Such messages should only be used for actions that just can’t be simulated by tools or assumed like -shakes someone’s hand-, but not -smashes the window-, -opens the door-, -unbuckles the driver-, -pulls out the driver-, -tackles-, and so on, you get the idea, its retarded. For that same reason tools should be improved to either restrict something that would be “FRP” or give ability to do something that could be seen by others more easily. Env said that V3 will have more things reliant on tools, so thats better too, but the rest of the point stays.
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A lot of people here don’t want to roleplay and instead use roleplay as an excuse to get themself out of situations and make someone else at fault instead. Mostly this is done by criminals who do retarded shit that would not be considered roleplay if Firestone would have adequate roleplay rules like killing a police officer at the traffic stop for the sole reason of it, and then, when they are caught, they blame the officer for “FRPing”, because they got rushed with a baton after they crashed into a pole and are trying to reverse out. That causes a situation where criminals don’t have much requirements for considering limitations of the game, which allows them to ram armored humvees and drive away just fine and realistic, but when police officers are using their cuffs on a running person it is unrealistic because apparently they did not say -tackles-. This is just a form of using roleplay as an excuse by people like the ones who voted yes on the vote in the beginning.
And so, Firestone only has 2 choices to improve the situation with roleplay. The first one is to actually improve it to make sure there are conditions for roleplay to happen at all. Second, is to do what Mayflower did. Stop making “roleplay” mandatory, and instead just add 1 simple rule that protects people that roleplay from outer interference, while everyone else is free to do whatever they want. But pretending that we are still a roleplay state, and everything is fine is wrong, and people should stop doing it.
Commence the shitstorm.