Player Types

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STARBASE 118 PLAYER TYPES There are a number of different categories of players/characters. To clarify what each type of character is, we have the handy glossary below. But first, let’s recognize that there’s a difference between “Writer” (you), and the “Character” (the persona you embody in a sim). There’s only one of you, but you can have many characters, and those characters can be used or written-for by others in the sim, depending on how they’re categorized, as below. PC: Playing Character PC stands for “Playing Character.” A PC is a character owned, and written-for by a writer in the group. The character you regularly write for is a Playing Character because you are the only writer for that character. Only you can play for, and speak for your own Playing Character. NPC: Non-Playing Character This is any character within the game that serves only a plot-related purpose. For example, let’s say that you sim your character going to Ten Forward on your ship, and asking a bartender for a drink. Your character, and the bartender, have a discussion which you write yourself. The bartender is considered a Non-Playing Character. Non-Playing Characters can be picked-up and used by anyone for limited purposes. Anyone can follow you into Ten Forward and strike up a new conversation with the bartender, that they write on their own. Because you generally don’t write for NPCs on a regular basis (instead, you just use them once or twice during a sim, and then maybe never again, or very infrequently), you can create as many as you need-to, within reason. Feel free to create NPCs that your character waves to in passing, or talks to while docking the ship — whatever strikes your fancy! Others will be able to interact and write for those characters as well, so it makes the universe richer.

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