ICON Lifestyle Magazine Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2012

great way to lure in potential RP-ers to the sim, while at the same time, a support to pay the sim’s rent. He added that “making avatars or RP-related accessories can fuel interest in the storyline or theme, giving people a constant source of new props and items to stimulate their imaginations.”

Rand mentioned that combat meters are not being used in Timber Wilds as they felt that meters are obtrusive and would only get in the way of RP-ing. “We prefer that people discipline themselves and try to restrict their characters to realistic and sensible behavior.” Though they have the occassional problems with griefers, Timber Wilds a very effective 3-strikes policy to offenses such as harrassing, advertising, money begging and spamming. That rule takes care of the worst troublemakers without being too draconian. Rand added that visitors coming into the sim without any purpose of RP-ing but only for the sake of running around to disrupt other people’s conversation are quite vexing. Many would wander or fly around aimlessly without taking notes of the posted rules, and it is usually up to the staff to round them up and bring them to the proper OOC or shopping areas, as one of the sim’s major rules is that people should be wearing their feral avatars and be in-character mode during their stay in Timber Wilds.