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Feedback ยท Delete the Atmosphere trait (implemented)

We should remove the Atmosphere trait because it is not clear or useful.

As a meta trait it's meant to describe "the emotional setting of a narrative or profile", and its traits define "a writing style or character" that has so-and-so effect. I have never really understood what most of atmosphere is for, or why it's a trait.

If it's to describe the tone of roleplays you want to play, it doesn't do a very good job if you can only pick one. What if you want dark sexual roleplay, or romantic kinky roleplay? What if you want lots of them? What if your character profile is a bit comedic but you're totally here for romantic and kinky sexual adventures? This stuff sounds like roleplay themes, which are better modeled as interests. (One already is: Romance.)

I don't know what a suspenseful writing style or character is, or what an impersonal roleplay is, or what I'm meant to get out of someone picking peaceful. I have never known what to pick for my own profile. I am not sure why half of anyone in each category is there in particular, and what I'm meant to get out of them making that choice. I'm not sure what I'm meant to get out of searching by any of them, especially since if I search by any given category I'll be missing everyone who chose one of the other five categories relevant to them instead. (This is where only being able to pick one again makes this fail as a trait.)

It's among our least effective traits, it is expressing stuff that shouldn't even be expressed as a trait, and it should probably be removed.

meta info

endorsement points: 132

created: 27 July 15 at 01:15 PM (build: 7/17/2015 2:30 AM beta)

closed: 19 February 16 at 03:58 AM (build: 10/1/2015 4:20 PM beta)

Roel

I support the proposition whole-heartedly. This thing should be at least strongly remodeled, if it is possible to make it useful that way - but I would simply shoot it down and move on.
Just doesn't bring anything useful to the table, really.

Yasu Tsukuda

I think that the need for this trait will wane completely if we are ever able to create "role play themes" which is in the works somewhere. I am at work so can't look up the feed back on that, but it may be worth linking to this as an alternative to the current system.

Velus

Thanks for sharing that stuff Loki. That stealth edit did confuse things, and it certainly would work better if you could select more than one thing.

Candice Green

I'll point out that the potential fix for it is to allow multiple things be selected for this particular trait. In my opinion most of the problems with it come with 1 trait per character restriction.

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