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Forums  > Game-World Feedback  > Flames  > Raised in a barn?     Display using: Flat View Threaded View   Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Thread :: Next Thread   Author  Thread: Raised in a barn?  Moriarty Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Total Posts: 256 Send PM   Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 12:55 AM I remeber there was a post sometime back about this, but I couldn't find it. So here goes: It's just slightly irritating to go through the Port or Buckshire and find every single last door flung wide open. From a haunted house to Poor Miss Miggins pie shop that must be flooded on a daily basis from all the rain coming through her open door. I understand forgetting every once in awhile, and thats alright but if everyone just tries to shut the door behind them (Just right click to bring up the menu and then click close - I didn't know how to do this till my first day in Vives either), even if someone forgets we don't have to deal with every single unlocked home, shop, inn, or tavern in town airing out their buildings... all the time. And not only that, you'll be helping out all my poor characters who were beat as children for not closing the door. The memories haunt them so much they have to close every open door they pass. *eyes glaze over and a ghostly voice shouts at poor poor Talion* "Did we raise you in a barn!? Then get back there and close that door!". *shudders* Sorry to bring up old news but this has been getting really bad lately. If your willing to help thanks, if not, no hard feelings.  Veran Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Total Posts: 718 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 12:59 AM *opens every door in Vives and -leaves- it open* I've been playing too many evil characters lately. The Legacy Saga  Vulpina Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Total Posts: 162 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 03:18 AM I agree, I know its a petty gripe, but it makes the place look bad. Dana and Marrya often go around ooc closing them just to give new players a good impression of the place. Nos laetus epulor is quisnam mos onero nos: Dana's family motto, if she had one (Translation) We gladly feast on he who will oppress us  Tasra www.bgmod.com Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 1364 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 06:03 AM Heh, this sounds distinctly familiar.... :)  Fubar Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Total Posts: 113 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 07:08 AM Dana and Marrya often go around ooc closing them just to give new players a good impression of the place. I don't see why people might get a bad impression. :x Heck, some might think of it as "Hey, doors are opened, people actually use these stores and they're not just for show". But that's just me. Ayntherian Tîwele - Elven Monk, earnest student of Ki and the Martial Arts His Diary - Updated at 26/8/2006 with ENTRY VII  Nathan Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Total Posts: 70 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 07:24 AM I wonder if doors at Malls/conveneince stores/out work places and schools/ basically every door outside our homes, didn't close on their own how often we would forget to close them, I suppose thats why they all have those things to make them close... not raised in a barn, the opposite, raised in a soceity where almost everything is automatic ~ Nay'Finn  Vulpina Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Total Posts: 162 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 07:48 AM Dana and Marrya often go around ooc closing them just to give new players a good impression of the place. I don't see why people might get a bad impression. :x Heck, some might think of it as "Hey, doors are opened, people actually use these stores and they're not just for show". But that's just me. I put that, because I have played some pretty awful servers in the past where builders have been too idle to put doors on buildings. We have a wonderful team here who wouldn't dream of such a thing. First impressions count. Open doors look like they have been left off, until the cursor is hovered over them. Nos laetus epulor is quisnam mos onero nos: Dana's family motto, if she had one (Translation) We gladly feast on he who will oppress us  T'mok Gurzi www.myspace.com Joined: 17 May 2006 Total Posts: 309 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 11:33 AM Funny how we think, but having worked in a store for nearly ten years prior to my current gig when we propped the door open we would get nearly double the foot traffic through the shop. The only reason we would close the door when it rained was because the moisture would damage the alarm sensor on the top of the door. But in the interest of preserving the atmosphere I will close open doors as I encounter them too (especially since I'm sure I'm responsible for every single one) as previous to this post I had no idea how to do it. Thanks for the tip. T'mok Gurzi Resident Gnoll Warlord patron for the noble yet drink addled Timik Gorozai the Mistake  Kalannar Illistynn www.myspace.com Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Total Posts: 242 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 22 Jun 2006 02:23 PM Actually Kal was raised in the forest, so yeah, he always forgets to close doors... unless there's an RP reason he'd close it. (Invisible, stealthing, not wanting to leave a footprint, keep foes outside, etc...) Paula Fuchsenbrant seems to always close doors, and Milton would likely do that too... Filraen, being a Druid Ranger, would less likely close doors... I did some acting in my youth: I tend to get into character and just forget everything else. Don't think it's some OOC ignorant thing I do (maybe sometimes)... NOW, if the admins/DMs think it will help our OL appeal, I could "break character" for the better of the community. Just let me know, and send me a PM. Heck, maybe an OCD character may be dedicated to JUST running around and closeing doors! I could see a few mages, clerics, knights or maybe Bards doing that too. I HAVE found ONE flaw to leaving doors open: places that are only appealing for looting, if you leave the door open, less folks are likely to waste their time there. It's funny: characters who would normally flee toward the [FOIG: edited] in the [FOIG] after a reset seem to avoid it if you leave the door open... This applies to off-hours powergamers mostly... ((avoids eye contact... "er no... never done that, no...")) ;) RP should be priority right?! "Life is a short trip... travel light" -- PC Descriptions with Journal Links  Marlena Joined: 12 May 2006 Total Posts: 347 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 23 Jun 2006 12:23 AM I know I leave a lot of doors open, mostly because I'm used to them autoclosing behind me. "I've got a sword and it's a good one, but all the bleedin' thing can do is keep someone alive, listen. A song can keep someone immortal!" - Cohen the Barbarian  ygsdrasil Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Total Posts: 137 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 23 Jun 2006 07:31 PM I try to remember...but if I leave the herbalists for some holy water and am coming right back.... Now in Icy Vale...I try to close them everytime...*shrugs* ((didn't you hear the complaints when it opened?))) As for Bald Rick....I thke some kind of perverse pleasure in locking him in the doorway...;) *mutters* Nosy *deleted*  Talos Joined: 31 May 2006 Total Posts: 182 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 23 Jun 2006 07:53 PM Well, it's not unreasonable for some of the doors to be left open on occasion, we're not dealing with a place that has air conditioning, or fans. So unless there are some windows left open.. I can understand them being closed when it's raining, and people closing a door that they open, I'm not arguing with your point, but you would think some of these people would open their doors from time to time to let a breeze in.  Rosen Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Total Posts: 241 Send PM   Re: Raised in a barn? Posted: 23 Jun 2006 07:54 PM I know I leave a lot of doors open, mostly because I'm used to them autoclosing behind me. Ditto. True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere. -Gretel Ehrlich Previous Thread :: Next Thread  Page 1 of 1   Forums  > Game-World Feedback  > Flames  > Raised in a barn?