Originally Posted by
dauntasa
do people generally like the current state of pred RP, where they stand around spamming the creepy laugh sound while absolutely everyone completely ignores them, since they have fighting to do and interacting with the predator will get them nothing except maybe killed? You don't quite seem to get that, in a game like this where there is actual gameplay going on, people often don't have time to engage in RP that is guaranteed to have no gameplay impact. There's a reason the CL spends most rounds bumbling around the ship desperately looking for someone willing to RP with them: they have no gameplay impact and thus people dismiss any RP attempts because they never go anywhere. The mechanical effect needs to be there to act as the carrot on the end of the stick for people to RP. Remember when Ultrazine was super busted for a while and the CL was the only way to get it? If you were so inclined that was the best time for CL RP, because you had something that had an actual effect on the videogame part of this videogame and if you wanted someone to RP with you to get it, you had that incentive. And then it got nerfed, and the CL was back to being largely irrelevant.