Then & Now...

[LadyGelinaGrey]

I was sent this by a friend and I found it quite interesting. I haven't been around very long as far as RP goes. But I have been around long enough to see why RhyDin is falling apart.


Rhydin's Dice (Past) Highest dice were 3d50s and those were for GODS, most the dice were 2d and if you had 2d50s.. you were considered deadly.


Rhydin's Dice (Now) Highest Dice?? What is this? You mean there's a limit? You got 3d50? Eh, you're weak, let me introduce you to my 4d200s!

Rhydin's Forums (Past) Oh, yes, there were a FEW Forums around. UCE, UAC, and a few others. But they were very well organized and well-kept. AT most, I think there were 3 or 4.


Rhydin's Forums (Now) Hey bro! Wanna start a new forum?? Eh, there's what.. 2 or 3 hundred out there.. let's go for more! We can run it in our spare time... we don't like it.. eh, let's drop it and start another one later!

Rhydin's Gaming (Past) Ah, the good old days, real cloak and danger. Spies and assassins were the name of the game. It was not about sex and soap operas, but rites of succession. Who gave the orders, who took them. It was about connections, gaining knowledge. And watch what you drank because there might be an assassin near by. Force collaring? No such thing, you wanted a slave, you FOUGHT for one. Lose your honor, Fight and get it back. Believe me, there was NO such thing as an easy kill or easy anything. And Rezzing after deathmatches? Hardly ever. Once you were dead that was it. Death Match meant just that DEAD. And spars were more serious, too, more dangerous, Mass Spars and Moders? Hardly any. They didn't dare.


Rhydin's Gaming (Now) Hey! I want a slave, you look good! *Clinck* There you're collared, ::rolls dice:: There, now it's official, heh, no you can't take it off. Oh, I don't like you no more, AA!! :::rolls dice:: You're dead in my forum go play in another forum. Oh, you're rezzed, ok, I get to kill you again. Hey! I'm bored! Let's all fight! ::rolls dice like crazy just to get noticed:: Oh..WAAAA, my boyfriend/girlfriend left me, my life is in shambles, oh... can we marry? No? How come? You're taken? ::both people start crying, he wants her she wants him, but is promised to another and he is promised to a third person::: WAAA, oh my life sux, why can't I be the pretty one getting all the attention? Oh, I'm bored, can we have sex now? Ok, we did it, you can go, I want someone else.

Rhydin's Guilds and kingdoms (Past)Ah, the guilds, beautiful things, well-organized, clean, their commanders often highly intelligent people and the kingdoms were often huge, holding three or four guilds in the kingdom with a council of people running it instead of one individual. They were strong, close-knit that lasted for a long time. Hard to take down unless you could get someone on the inside to start it's downfall. And, even then, you were pressing your luck. And nearly everyone was extremely active. Bordom was by personal choice. There were mock wars, LOTS of tournaments, and other ways to gain experience points and, more importantly, golds.


Rhydin's Guilds and Kingdoms (Now) Hey, I got a guild, let's give everyone these ultrahigh dice so they'll stay with us! Eh, people are complaining they're bored and leaving, crybabies, I like my little creche of close friends... ah, I got 10 slaves, well, that counts as a guild. Kingdoms? Eh, well, I got my single castle and my five friends, HEY we're an entire Kingdom. We're ALLL nobles, no such thing as common citizens, but hey, we got a guild and a kingdom, hrra!

Rhydin's inhabitants (Past) Dangerous, deadly creatures, they came in all forms, all sizes, from the grotesque to the beautiful. Vampires, witches, warlocks, magi, werewolves, elves: both dark and light, demons, and many different types of more or less normal humans, black white and whatever... RhyDin was a colorful place indeed.


Rhydin's inhabitants (now) We're all young, beautiful, immortal and hey ain't we all just perfect? But, eh, we should be, we all came from the same factory.

Hmm...get the idea?

[Cherise]

This did not appeal to me at all. I have been roleplaying for a measley six years, I have a good friend who's been roleplaying for ten. It doesn't matter.
This is making Rhydin sound like it was an Elysium at one time. No. I highly disagree.
Rhydin, in that era, was properly-formed, but not everyone had a heart.
Elitists?
I remember them.
I remember being blocked if you couldn't do so many posts.
People were not always nice. People did not always respect others.
Dice were laughed at and left for Vegas.
And honestly, who cares?
I wouldn't trade "this" Rhydin back for the "old" Rhydin.
What, are we supposed to be sentimental about something that really never was that great anyway?
If the old Rhydin was back, we'd all be ignored. Myself included.
Think of it like the Old South.
It had it's days of glory.
It was conquered.
Reconstruction.
The New South took splendor.
It's gone. We deal with what we have now.
I, for one, am happy with what we have, whether it be crumbling or not.
Any questions?

[princesssummer]

I've been Rping since i was 12, and always with Summer and only Summer. her whole story actually happened, i made none of it up. Comparing the two Rhydin's i've been part of, yeah they are very different, but i couldn't really say i liked one better then the other. i really think that both have their good points and their bad points and if we could somehow make them mate and take the Old and New Rhydin offspring and live in that one, it would just be perfection.

[Lord Caelum Lupus]

WOW....that's bitter....I happened to find it quite humorous and truthful and honestly dice werent laughed at before It's the new rhydin that is rampant with free-form, sim, and turn based RPers. It was out of the ashes of the major forums that people started to dislike dice....if you've really been around that long you'd have known that. I'm sorry but I dont really trust the memory of a 9 year old RPer...that's how old you were when you started wasnt it?

[princesssummer]

i'm lost... who exactly was that directed to?

[Cherise]

No, no. I was eight. And I did not get involved with dice until perhaps a year ago. Maybe you did have great forums. I didn't know. I was an elitist who believed that dice were left for game boards, and if you wanted your point across, you did 15 posts to describe how you walked across the floor and sat down. It was incredibly pointless to look back on it, but if I were to roleplay how I did now, I would have been ignored. Funny how things work out like that.
My memory is fresh, thank you. I can recall many guilds from those days, many chats that lingered years ago (How I miss you Crystal Tokyo Ball & Rhydin Beach! ;__;). I've gone through many screen names. It doesn't matter.
It's over. You work with what you have now. Like I said, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

[Kolava]

My Roleplaying career made its debut far from the computer, so I've never had a true kinship with any online RPing community. Especialy considering the fact that my online Roleplaying career debuted on Prodigy Classic, a land so rampant with stagnation that it was difficult to accomplish much of anything. It's hard for a newbie to grow more skilled when your character is literaly crucified for speaking his/her mind (what's this "moding" you speak of? If I say it happens, it does!)

When PC closed, I came to AOL. After wandering through the myriad of gay rooms, I eventually found "arts and entertainment" and was enthralled by RhyDin. Of course, after the novelty wore off I realised that it was the same stock of people as before. The difference here was the magnitude of it all. RhyDin could be taken with any angle you wanted, or ignored altogether; this is why I was drawn by KoGM, a community that acknowledged, but wasn't bound by, Rhydin.

What I'm getting at here is that I've never been truely frustrated by the crumbling of RhyDin. The newbies/elitists/moders have to RP somewhere, right? I'm just glad they have their own rooms, far away.

[LadyGelinaGrey]

::just smiles knowing she started a wonderful debate::

[princesssummer]

a topic being debated by masterdebaters. its a wonderful thing you've created, pookels. ::hugz, lick, manicure/pedicure::

[sukinekura]

Since I rarely set foot into a Rhy'Din room, I have to say that it is a pretty good place compared to the way Golden Myst can get sometimes.

In the Rhy'Din rooms, there is some relative..how should I put it nicely..structure so to say and peacefulness about it. There is a mixture of different people that you can meet and everyone for the most part is given some type of respect, PLUS they are actually nice.

In GM, this are rarely ever peaceful. People are always driving other people nuts with the craziness that always is in the room. Plus there always seems to be cliques forming in the room whenever it is full. The older people ALWAYS, minus a few, always seem to associate with the other older members while the newer members usually associate with others like themselves.

I should know. In Rhy'Din related rooms, I never feel alienated because I am new, but in Golden Myst, I am, and I do not like the feeling.