After we discussed the last time how to communicate in MMOs in general, now we will get a little bit more specific, as I want to present you three archetypes of roles which you can play, or as I also like to call them, the “three paths of enlightenment on the way to the collective discontent”.

These three paths are:

The Destructive The Helpless The Smartass

The Destructive

For the most part it is a matter of taste which path you settle for, although of course each role has different prerequisites regarding your skillset. Therefore let’s start with the in general easiest one, but keep in mind that it still needs exceptional skill to keep this method working long. “The Destructive” is my definition for that behavior, that we colloquially also often call “trolling”. However, apart from the fact that this label is biologically totally insufficient and only a subcategory of what we understand under “The Destructive”, it constitutes a clear discrimination. A discrimination of all real trolls, for example those who are silicon-based – who, as we know, are in reality highly intelligent and just suffer from the heat – and who don’t deserve to be compared with those spelling-ignoring and punctuation-resistant exclamation-marks-out-of-the-hat-pullers with a jammed caps lock.

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