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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shenlong_Gundam" data-source="post: 2560415">You’re most welcome for the help Trel.  As always I’m available for help with any of these things!  You’ve really done a great job at summarizing that seminar!  But I’m going to get to my point and make good my promise to you and add some things.ISRP is great, lets just say that now.  And yes it is freeform, but at the same time it isn’t.  There are rules to abide by, and know those rules will help you out greatly.  I hate saying this, but there are people that SHOULD have been at the seminar.  It was a great experience, and even if you are as old as my on site, and the numbers hurt your head, or only a few months into the ISRP areas, you should have attended this.  I look at the ISRP rooms these days and think, “This place has degenerated,” and for good reason.  Many of our new cousins to the site simply don’t know how to RP well.  And it is OUR fault as the old timers for not helping them out anymore.I’m going to try and follow Trel’s order here and expand and elaborate her words, and try to get this going to be in-depth, more-so than we could get at seminar.  Remember, we only had an hour and tons of information to cover.   What was hit, was what could be hit, and even then, it could only be touched.  Between Trel, Donny and I, we only scratched the surface of each topic!  And at the end, we all agreed going further would be a great thing to do!  And Trels, we love you, we WANT you to try and get this seminar to be a monthly thing.  I know I’d gladly attend and help as I could.  It’s my duty as a patron to this site, to make it great.Etiquette is essential to ISRP and FFRP in general, you can’t freeform without rules.  If we did, it would only be Anarchy, and anarchy eventually collapses, and then, where would we go for such fun?  [edited]?  Believe me, I have heard horrible things about that place, and not to flame the mods there, but a few of the moderators should have been at this seminar, if only for the etiquette portions.I really can’t improve on Trelian’s words until the description bits, they’re greatly in-depth and more than I could have imagined possible in an hour.  Remember, the /describe EDIT command through the iChat and ActiveX plug-ins can only hold 1018 character, including spaces, in a single paragraph.  For many iChat screens that equates to about a third of the screen of the default chat area screen, and furthermore, 1018 is a great number to shoot for!  It’s just the right bite, most people can read fast enough that they can finish a paragraph to two of that size before they scroll off screen.  Remember, people don’t enjoy descriptions that scroll the screen, and they want something detailed but quick.That is Shen’s description on site, including spaces, it is only 954 characters.  It is short, just a nibble for the eyes.  It is to the point, but at the same time it has the detail needed, the rest is to your imagination.  I’ve hit his class, but didn’t tell you it.  Look at his clothing, without using the word ‘Monk’, I’ve said, ‘Shenlong is a monk.’  There are no personal tidbits, nothing about his personality, nothing about his name, no past, nothing but what you see.  That is all that is required in a, key-word here, Description .Like Trel said, the <gettickermsg> comes up when the ticker bar reaches a certain point.  I’ve managed to nab it as the “You are in the room” portion.  Like she said, there are ways around it.  HTML and Java plug-ins don’t have the ticker.  I know a way to freeze it, and there is actually a program out that does that for you, it’s called a pop-up blocker, as odd as it sounds, certain pop-up blockers do freeze the iChat ticker.  And I’ll add a bit more on another post, easy bites you know, this is already a full word page.</blockquote>

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