I think it's just a problem with the mindset of some individuals.
I wanna point out something OP said.
"Why am I not getting as much RP as I should?"
I don't think OP meant this in reference to themselves but that they have heard other people say it LOT and I'm inclined to agree, I've heard it a lot too. But I have never heard it from a person who puts themselves out there and makes efforts to meet people ICly and OOCly.
I tend to hear this from someone who wallflowers a lot, watches other people, says nothing, really makes no efforts to meet anyone and then wonders why people aren't just flocking to their character to spark RP. I don't think it really involves too many events or FC's on the server or anything like that. In fact, since there ARE so many if you put yourself out there and poke others then you should have no issue finding RP, right?
Something else I tend to see is people who make these really mean, broody characters that essentially just grunt at their walkups and then the player acts disappointed when the character wanders off because Alucard the Death Lizard keeps acting like they want to eat them. Their characters don't know yours or have any investment I doubt it makes sense for their character to sit around and get huffed at.
Other times the player just might not have created a very interesting character. Yes, I said it. It takes a bit of experience and finesse to craft a character that falls in the right spot between too typical and special snowflake but if you're starting from scratch and looking for connections then you're going to want to make that effort and falling on either side of that spectrum is NOT advisable.
At the end of the day, I don't think the question should be
"Why am I not getting as much RP as I should?"
and ought to be
"What can I do to generate more RP for myself?"
On a side note though, if you're in an RP FC and you keep trying to spark and start up RP and it never happens then it's time to shop around. This post isn't pointed at that.
I wanna point out something OP said.
"Why am I not getting as much RP as I should?"
I don't think OP meant this in reference to themselves but that they have heard other people say it LOT and I'm inclined to agree, I've heard it a lot too. But I have never heard it from a person who puts themselves out there and makes efforts to meet people ICly and OOCly.
I tend to hear this from someone who wallflowers a lot, watches other people, says nothing, really makes no efforts to meet anyone and then wonders why people aren't just flocking to their character to spark RP. I don't think it really involves too many events or FC's on the server or anything like that. In fact, since there ARE so many if you put yourself out there and poke others then you should have no issue finding RP, right?
Something else I tend to see is people who make these really mean, broody characters that essentially just grunt at their walkups and then the player acts disappointed when the character wanders off because Alucard the Death Lizard keeps acting like they want to eat them. Their characters don't know yours or have any investment I doubt it makes sense for their character to sit around and get huffed at.
Other times the player just might not have created a very interesting character. Yes, I said it. It takes a bit of experience and finesse to craft a character that falls in the right spot between too typical and special snowflake but if you're starting from scratch and looking for connections then you're going to want to make that effort and falling on either side of that spectrum is NOT advisable.
At the end of the day, I don't think the question should be
"Why am I not getting as much RP as I should?"
and ought to be
"What can I do to generate more RP for myself?"
On a side note though, if you're in an RP FC and you keep trying to spark and start up RP and it never happens then it's time to shop around. This post isn't pointed at that.