Arelith

Hey there,

This is a feedback more explicitly for the DM team on something that is slowly starting to worry me as a developing trend on the server. This mostly is relevant to the 'intelligence' sorts of characters on the server who collect information and act as spies, spymasters, and so on. Legitimate roleplay.

Recently I've noticed that there seems to be a prevalence of "Log Posting". Log posting is what I'd describe as an individual going into their logging program of choice and essentially copy pasting conversation recordings they get from their log file and slapping it into a text editor and having their character essentially "Picture Perfect Memorize" prior conversations.

While I can understand the roleplay arguments for someone doing this being valid in terms of meeting minutes for certain things to an extent, it honestly comes off as very poor quality RP when they happen to just photographically recall a conversation in the square from a year ago. My primary exposure to this has been people making intelligence reports with perfect captures of the contents of conversations they scried.

So this is my feedback and questions towards the DM Team.

• Presently does the DM team consider log posting a RPR decreasing phenomena? Will the creation of log posting documents be seen as low RP quality?

• Is the capturing of a log for the purposes of perfect intelligence reports or recalling exact words from conversations months prior considered metagaming? I'm talking explicitly when people bulk post conversations they had.

If the DM team sees no issues with this phenomena or not something they wish to enforce then I can fully understand their perspective. But if they do choose to pursue it as against the rules or the spirit of the server could I propose the following rules amendment?

While chat logs can be a useful OOC tool for players, characters do not have perfect photographic recall. Characters should not unreasonably remember past conversations or events with exact wording or detail especially those that happened weeks or months ago. Do not attempt to use game logging systems to advantage your character’s capacity to remember things. If you are attempting to copy public posts, emote doing such an action and write that paper infront of said board.

Considerations for Copying Board Posts

While I can appreciate where oddly perfectly memory is pretty toxic in terms of "I prefectly remember the exact wording you used when you talked about bob in 173 AR", using logs for characters making a copy of a board post that's on a public board should probably not be covered in this. However, someone clicking 1 through 10 and running away to make a copy is a bit cheesy.

With this in mind I added the consideration to board posts.

Thanks for your consideration DM team.