Hydaelyn Role-Players

From what the OP has wrote, though, it wasn't RP but more of a series of shenanigans/trolling. I'm quite sure that people wouldn't mind that much a character that randomly goes about and spouts silly things from now and then, to liven the place up, but going about and spamming random emotes... isn't exactly the way to do it, I think.

(04-08-2015, 11:24 AM)Zhavi Wrote: [ -> ]Hummmm, I dunno, sometimes it's nice to see people being silly.  If it's interrupting mah flow, I just temp block.

But sometimes it's just like dat ass.

I'm mostly a super srs rper, anyone who's rped with me knows it's a lot of grungy dirty sloppy icky mess where no one wins and everything is dingy and shit, but sometimes you just need the stupid slapstick idiocy to reset.  I've never seen anything wrong with ignoring rp that's messing with your jive, but I dunno, it'd be boring if no one broke the mold every now and again.  At least for me.  As long as everyone is willing to accept that not everyone is going to be ok with their rp, who am I to say what people can and can't do for fun?

Cuz, you know, given a chance there's some people out there who would happily get rid of every single rper on the server.  *shrugs*

edit - Edda has a good point though.  The apology on here is pretty pointless.  This is one of those things where I'd apologize to anyone who approached you on it, or those who you saw were rping who might've felt like you were trolling them.

I loves the rp with Zhi!!! Must....find...way to....bring Ruru back!!

(04-08-2015, 11:29 AM)Deshel Wrote: [ -> ]From what the OP has wrote, though, it wasn't RP but more of a series of shenanigans/trolling. I'm quite sure that people wouldn't mind that much a character that randomly goes about and spouts silly things from now and then, to liven the place up, but going about and spamming random emotes... isn't exactly the way to do it, I think.

"in which I ran around touching the butts of a multitude of characters in search for the luckiest butt in the Quicksand"

is rp to me. Stupid rp, yeah. Spammy rp, yeah. Maybe mostly ooc rp, yeah, but still rp. It's like dragon-catgirl-demon-whatever rp -- not my thing. I'd probably block and ignore. But y'know, if that's their thing, whatever -- they can do whateeeever they want. As long as they don't get butthurt when people don't want to play with them, it's cool. (much in the same way that I accept that not everyone likes my rp or wants to rp with me -- different strokes and all that)

(04-08-2015, 11:33 AM)Zhavi Wrote: [ -> ]is rp to me.  Stupid rp, yeah.  Spammy rp, yeah.  Maybe mostly ooc rp, yeah, but still rp.

Well, he wasn't really interacting with anyone, though he was getting his share of OOC yucking being expressed!  I just ignored him, as I usually do to the myriad of trolls in the Quick Sand.  Normally I'd have black listed him too, but I was feeling lenient since the crowd was definitely encouraging him :-X

I'd still say its unwelcome behavior in the Quick Sand.  I like a little silly fun, but not when its so spammy in a place where spamminess can be really frustrating.  Just imagine how people new to FF RP would view the situation - that's kind of how I try to look at things.

Edit: I'll just note that I generally have a very little patience for trolling the Quick Sand. Its one of my usual RP spots (obvs!) and its hard enough to keep up; its just behavior that I think is really discouraging for the people trying to RP and have a little fun there. It tends to earn a black-list from me almost instantaneously, and permanently.

(04-08-2015, 11:33 AM)Zhavi Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-08-2015, 11:29 AM)D Wrote: [ -> ]From what the OP has wrote, though, it wasn't RP but more of a series of shenanigans/trolling. I'm quite sure that people wouldn't mind that much a character that randomly goes about and spouts silly things from now and then, to liven the place up, but going about and spamming random emotes... isn't exactly the way to do it, I think.

"in which I ran around touching the butts of a multitude of characters in search for the luckiest butt in the Quicksand"

is rp to me.  Stupid rp, yeah.  Spammy rp, yeah.  Maybe mostly ooc rp, yeah, but still rp.

Quote: Flynt's OOC buttluck extravaganza

;v

While I do get the point you're dragging across, I don't exactly agree with most of it or even see that it fits. Behaviour like that loosely hangs on the balance of lolling and honestly, I don't want to feel forced to blacklist someone just because he went on a random... goofball spree. Especially if the person is a roleplayer. It just gives out a bad impression and you know the first ones are the most difficult to erase.

We're playing with other people, so we should be aware of that all the time. As I said and as many have said before, QS is quite the busy place so blurping out emotes that aren't RP, ergo do not contribute to the RP scene in any way is counter-productive and even... just bad. As I said before, it's best if you do these sort of things somewhere else and prefferably in the closed groups of friends (God knows I've goofed around with my friends a lot of times in wow, but we never went on to disturb someone's RP). I also agree with Edda's point that the thread doesn't do much help. It seems to me as if you were trying to see how the community would respond so you knew if you could try something like this again. I dunno. Maybe I'm being too vindicative at this point.

Please stop trying to be a forced meme.

(04-08-2015, 11:37 AM)Aya Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-08-2015, 11:33 AM)Zhavi Wrote: [ -> ]is rp to me.  Stupid rp, yeah.  Spammy rp, yeah.  Maybe mostly ooc rp, yeah, but still rp.

Well, he wasn't really interacting with anyone, though he was getting his share of OOC yucking being expressed!  I just ignored him, as I usually do to the myriad of trolls in the Quick Sand.  Normally I'd have black listed him too, but I was feeling lenient since the crowd was definitely encouraging him :-X

I'd still say its unwelcome behavior in the Quick Sand.  I like a little silly fun, but not when its so spammy in a place where spamminess can be really frustrating.  Just imagine how people new to FF RP would view the situation - that's kind of how I try to look at things.

To me rp is playing someone/something other than yourself in a public place, hopefully in an interactive manner, but not always.

One thing to note is that Balmung isn't officially a role-playing server. So role-play etiquette is pretty much limited to 'vigilante' enforcement. 

With that said, however, I think it's fair to expect role-players to be considerate of those around them especially if they're presently in a location known as an attractive hub for role-players.

I'm sure most of us - myself included - like to have a bit of OOC silliness from time to time. I think it's best to keep such things out of the public eye though or at least away from areas where people are trying to get some role-play started.

I have seen so many things in QS....parades of people walking loops through Ul'dah and through the QS. I have seen OOC conversations that include "LOL that sux, yo." "xD" and other things similar. The place is a hodgepodge of players. Crafters at the leve desk; new players running in and out talking to Momodi; rp'ers; erpers; and just people there take in the scene. While spammy....buttluck (LOL) seems relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things.

(04-08-2015, 11:40 AM)Deshel Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-08-2015, 11:33 AM)Zhavi Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-08-2015, 11:29 AM)D Wrote: [ -> ]From what the OP has wrote, though, it wasn't RP but more of a series of shenanigans/trolling. I'm quite sure that people wouldn't mind that much a character that randomly goes about and spouts silly things from now and then, to liven the place up, but going about and spamming random emotes... isn't exactly the way to do it, I think.

"in which I ran around touching the butts of a multitude of characters in search for the luckiest butt in the Quicksand"

is rp to me.  Stupid rp, yeah.  Spammy rp, yeah.  Maybe mostly ooc rp, yeah, but still rp.

Quote: Flynt's OOC buttluck extravaganza

;v

While I do get the point you're dragging across, I don't exactly agree with most of it or even see that it fits. Behaviour like that loosely hangs on the balance of lolling and honestly, I don't want to feel forced to blacklist someone just because he went on a random... goofball spree. Especially if the person is a roleplayer. It just gives out a bad impression and you know the first ones are the most difficult to erase.

We're playing with other people, so we should be aware of that all the time. As I said and as many have said before, QS is quite the busy place so blurping out emotes that aren't RP, ergo do not contribute to the RP scene in any way is counter-productive and even... just bad. As I said before, it's best if you do these sort of things somewhere else and prefferably in the closed groups of friends (God knows I've goofed around with my friends a lot of times in wow, but we never went on to disturb someone's RP). I also agree with Edda's point that the thread doesn't do much help. It seems to me as if you were trying to see how the community would respond so you knew if you could try something like this again. I dunno. Maybe I'm being too vindicative at this point.

I guess to me I have a kneejerk reaction because I've been in places before where I was sidelined because my style of rp didn't fit into the meta. I just... man, he'll self correct if the people he wants to play with no longer wish to play with him, but I dunno. Like I said, I enjoy a little bit of stupid every now and again. I know maybe this seems like a silly place to be all high horse blah blah blah, but... prior bad experiences on my end. It's one thing if it's a niche community where there's rules everyone has to follow, but on places like mmos, it's a self regulation thing. If people want to conform to the community and rp with a majority of people, they'll find the hard edges of peoples' tolerance by who is and isn't willing to rp with them.

Mebbe this is too out of context, I dunno. But to me it's just like... if I was there and I didn't like it, and I knew he was a mostly serious rper, I'd either just ignore or blacklist, and let him do his thang. He's welcome to his silly.

To be fair, in Flynts defense. 

Im sure everyone here has had at least one time they were so OOC they just goofed off regardless of where they were. I know I have. I was trolling with Flynt that time but in my defense too this was honestly not how I saw it playing out. At first we were just betting via rolls and I kept winning so it kinda spiraled.

I hardly think a B list is anything short of extreme for that one time thing, sure we could have walked somewhere else but it was a heat of the moment thing and we got carried away. 

I never got a tell saying to stop. In fact I had recieved a tell from one rper saying "I've had a really stressed out day but you and Flynt got me to laugh I appreciate it." Which actually made me think I wasn't doing any harm.

Everyone has their goofs, it's not like we were trolling maliciously. Not all of us can be IC 24/7 at the QS in a game that wasn't really meant for rp in the first place. 

I do apologize if I sound defensive or any thing if the sort. This is not my intention and if me and Flynt really annoyed some people im sure we won't do it again

(04-08-2015, 11:56 AM)Aaron Wrote: [ -> ]To be fair, in Flynts defense. 

Im sure everyone here has had at least one time they were so OOC they just goofed off regardless of where they were. I know I have. I was trolling with Flynt that time but in my defense too this was honestly not how I saw it playing out. At first we were just betting via rolls and I kept winning so it kinda spiraled.

I can't speak for everyone, but... no. Why would I? It's rude and it's disrespectful. RPers get enough crap from anti-RPers.

(04-08-2015, 11:56 AM)Aaron Wrote: [ -> ]To be fair, in Flynts defense. 

Im sure everyone here has had at least one time they were so OOC they just goofed off regardless of where they were. I know I have.

Everyone has. Most of us are just respectful enough of a setting to do it on linkshell or FC.

(04-08-2015, 11:57 AM)cuideag Wrote: [ -> ]I can't speak for everyone, but... no. Why would I? It's rude and it's disrespectful. RPers get enough crap from anti-RPers.

Must echo this 100%. I don't like when others do it to me, I'm not going to do it to them either.

(04-08-2015, 11:57 AM)cuideag Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-08-2015, 11:56 AM)Aaron Wrote: [ -> ]To be fair, in Flynts defense. 

Im sure everyone here has had at least one time they were so OOC they just goofed off regardless of where they were. I know I have. I was trolling with Flynt that time but in my defense too this was honestly not how I saw it playing out. At first we were just betting via rolls and I kept winning so it kinda spiraled.

I can't speak for everyone, but... no. Why would I? It's rude and it's disrespectful. RPers get enough crap from anti-RPers.

You seem to have missed the point of the question. I don't want to get into a moral argument over this so I'll just say *shrug*

@Warren

Yeah you're right. Im admitting straight up I was inconsiderate. Might've got b listed by a couple people too. But all I can say now is im sorry and ill be more careful next time. 

Me and Flynt were just having fun. No harm was intended.