XP for lines of RP

[Talir]

Against this suggestion and highly so. If I notice there's some nice RPing going on, I often give a few XP points. The real experience is what you get from roleplaying, not what you earn from roleplaying.

[Tanonx]

Timed XP could be interesting. Make it a toggle between time-based and quest-based XP, and have the total quest XP of any given level be greater than the timed XP. Throw in enough detection to make it require about as much activity as a quest would anyhow, and it might work out to be interesting, at least.

I'd like to see some sort of XP gain beyond the scripts and DM grants, but it's not a big deal to me, really.

Per Line, though? Purple prose to the max.

[Kotenku]

Quantity of Roleplay is irrelevant. You can spam the things your character is thinking every few minutes, and call it Roleplay, but if anything, it's just going to detract from the setting.

Anyway, the point is moot: I really don't see this being desirable, even as a player. People don't need more incentive to stand around talking, without actually doing anything.

I will say this though: EfU would be a far better server if people would discard the Game-logic, and start treating the setting as a real place with consequences for even small miscues; where everything that's said is IC, and makes sense for IC reasons.

[ScruffyMcSmirkalot]

On this server... I've seen drops of 50-200 for "RP XP", some on myself and some on others in my short time here, either due to RP on an event, or due to random situations that took place with PCs.
 
There's a deeper issue that lies under this than simply abuse though, as this idea has been thrown around on other PWs. And it simply comes down to what RP should be rewarded with XP, and what RP shouldn't.
 
Not to say that certain types of RP are bad... But generally PWs have a certain.... "mood"... that they try to follow, and thus, as a whole generally attempt to make a push to reward those that make an effort to further this "mood".
 
Should Tea Kettle & Biscuits RP be rewarded (Ah, it seems Razored Aria was alluding to this)? I think the general DM population would say no. However, often the experiences where I've been given RP XP or witnessed others given it has to often due with some RP that furthers a faction, plot, or heavy character development that relates to actions to the previous. Or, perhaps, they're merely entertained. I'm only guessing.
 
Not that other RP should be -punished-, but it shouldn't neccesarily be rewarded either due to (what I'm interpretting) as the scope of the server's goals.
 
A scripted system would be unable to identify the difference. However, if I'm wrong in my analysis of what "RP" is rewarded and what isn't, do correct me.

[Drakill Tannan]

I agree with a number of the comments posted and withdraw the idea of rewarding every line of text with some xp. The main goal, I suppose, was to reward people who spend time IG communicating compared to those who wordlessly quest. Based on some of the comments here though, I don't think the solution I proposed does this except perhaps solely within quest areas.

He withdrew it, no further point in discussing it.

[FleetingHeart]

Automatic XP in any form is abuseable.

This isn't gonna happen.

[Mort]

This has been discussed a lot.

I have something in mind that is like that... but it will always be given by DMs.

Besides, its more rewarding if a human being gives you a 250 bonus for nice roleplay than if a script does it automatically for number of lines written...