To all RPers big and small,
My name is Mikoto Kira the RP lead of Cerberus Industries. Over the years roleplaying has grown and evolved on our game especially Balmung to create one of the best RP communities available for MMORPGs.
There are always ways to improve this. So today we propose a tag for us, something that we can do to show other roleplayers that we are in fact IC. If a player types /lfm (looking for meld) into their chatbox a symbol will appear beside their name for all to see. This Symbol is widely unused because it's more effective to ask a friend, use the player search, or shout chat. Seeing this symbol would let a fellow roleplayer know that you are in fact IC leading to more walk ups, and a more unified and varied community.
Thank you all for your time, please post comments or suggestions in the comments below. If you happen to see a member of Cerberus (Tag: CBI) with the mark feel free to join in.
Happy hunting,
Mikoto Kira
Cerberus RP Director
Full credit for this idea goes to Xartsagajin Hotgo of CBI. Thank you for your wonderful idea!
*Give huge applauding*
I LOVE THAT IDEA! This would give Rpers even greater change to spot other RPers! All Roleplayers aren't in FC with "-RP" in their FC-tag! Or have RPer in their search information!
I will inform all my friends in game about this idea and asks their opinion!
I am really grateful and you have my respect bringing this up! THere has been talks in FFXIV Offical forums about RP statue, but SE hasn't done anything to it.. alteast not yet.
/lfm... Looking For Mates... For mating... *wink wink*
It's a cool idea though. I wonder if it catches on. I might do it. What symbol is it though?
I will start doing this and spread around the information. : )
What a brilliant and simple suggestion. : )
I love this idea! I've never seen that tag used anywhere, so why not re-appropriate it?
Neat idea, I'll definitely push this in the LS I am in
I have also been requesting for a "IC/RP" status icon to the developers via Live Letter questions and Leave a Suggestion feature in-game. I'd like to encourage as many of you to do the same. The louder we'll be, the more likely we will get our own status icon.
A simple idea but a great one in my mind. I have never seen the /lfm symbol myself in game so it would be something we can put to good use until Square gives us an RP/IC one.
That's brilliant! I love it! I will most certainly start doing this in the future, and will spread the word! =-D
I'll definitely give this a shot. I've never seen people actually use Looking for Meld, as you have said, so it's quite the ingenious little workaround. It'd be nice to see this become widespread enough that you can readily ID folks looking for some RP.
(07-23-2015, 05:36 AM)Blue Wrote: [ -> ]I have also been requesting for a "IC/RP" status icon to the developers via Live Letter questions and Leave a Suggestion feature in-game. I'd like to encourage as many of you to do the same. The louder we'll be, the more likely we will get our own status icon.
Highlighting this since this would be very useful to get something more solid to work with. Yet until that happens (or if it doesn't) then the proposed idea works very well. I'll try and remember to toggle it on whenever I'm seeking random role-play!
I will certainly be doing this, as not all of my characters are even part of a FC. Thank you for this idea. :)
Wouldn't a lot of crafter's assume you're actually looking for a meld or would they just ignore it like how we ignore the shout chat a lot?
I hate to be the naysayer, but as the RPC is a small part of the community I just simply don't see this gaining a lot of traction with the whole community.
It's not clear enough, and I can imagine myself walking around with a looking to meld sign and people just being confused as to whether I'm trying to RP or meld.
It also doesn't provide much beyond what putting currently IC in my search box would do.
This is an excellent idea. I'm going to do that and see if I can set a trend inside my company.
(07-23-2015, 05:36 AM)Blue Wrote: [ -> ]I have also been requesting for a "IC/RP" status icon to the developers via Live Letter questions and Leave a Suggestion feature in-game. I'd like to encourage as many of you to do the same. The louder we'll be, the more likely we will get our own status icon.
This is very true. I'll have to do that also. The developers at least acknowledge that RPers exist since there's a "Roleplay" icon in the Free Company profiles to indicate which ones are roleplay companies.
I'd think that a hefty part of their playerbase keeps renewing their subscription because they are RPers so it makes financial sense for them to at least throw us a bone once in a while.