litphoria

Pretty much what it says on the tin. I'd like to be able to apply traits to my roleplays to designate what kinds of characters I want in them.

So, right now we can add interests to the roleplays, which is great. But! That means in searching I might have to go through several that are tagged with relevant interests, but are not interested in the type of character I want to play. And that's not as great.

My main problems with this are:

1. adding interests already seems like a lot to ask of people when filling an ad, and this would compond that something awful
2. you can already search ads by the owner of the roleplay (e.g find all roleplays where the owner likes taurs)
3. while we can have potentially hundreds of interests, and usually you can't use every single one you like in every single play, preferences are generally much more strong and the play doesn't even occur unless most/all of them are met

I think 1 can be addressed by using that profile inspiration idea creatively. My main issues are with 2 and 3 - you can already find people like this, and usually a straight male player isn't going to be advertising an ad where they have sex with another male profile, for instance.

However, I recognize that this is possible and perhaps desirable for people who don't have very strong preferences except in specific circumstances. A bisexual profile may only want to do a particular idea with a particular gender, and there's nothing really wrong with that.

So I'm not really sure where I'm going with this. There's a need here and it's legitimate but I'm not sure we can bolt it on with out making people fill out a lot more and without complicating search. Maybe instead of desired traits we call it something that communicates that this is an exception to your usual preferences?

e.g as just a strawman:

find roleplay with footplay wanting species of taur

This will:

1. get all roleplays
2. filter out the ones w/o footplay as an interest
3. look if the roleplay has species of taur as a desired trait or w/e we call it
4. look if the owner has species of taur as a positive preference provided 3 fails
5. exclude if step 4 fails

Additionally, it may also:

1. get all roleplays
2. filter out the ones w/o footplay as an interest
3. look if the roleplay has species of taur as a desired trait or w/e we call it, exclude if it doesn't have taur but has some other species
4. look if the owner has species of taur as a positive preference provided the roleplay does not have any desireds for species.
5. exclude at either step 3 or 4

The first proposal there acts like emphasis, showing what you really want for this roleplay. The second proposal acts like exclusion, show what you must have for this roleplay.

Yeah, the main use I see for this is when the preferences someone has don't align with an idea they have. They wouldn't be comfortable putting on their profile that they like men, for instance, if they just want to try playing with men for this one idea that they have. By having some functionality like this they'd be able to state that they want men for this one thing.

Implementing this would allow you that flexibility and simplify searching for categories a bit. So long as we can "inherit" from the owner's profile we can avoid having to list every little thing and duplicate their efforts, and just have them list stuff that they really want for this idea or stuff that they normally wouldn't play with.

I'm glad this is in the works. This is critical for making an RP list as steampunk, and then another RP list as modern fantasy, when my character's actual Trait is set to Fantasy, because that is the most correct setting for that Trait. Another very common example for myself is, as a switch, I don't want to have an RP that is a "Switch" RP necessarily. Usually the RP Ideas I have are wanting exclusively dominant or exclusively submissive roles to match up with the RP Idea that I have where I will play the opposite.