Wow! Never thought I'd find a group of people who knew and understood these concepts.
I've struggled with this for years. Have quit whole games over this (big reason I left Tera). I never put it in simple terms reactive vs active, but now that several of you have defined it, it solidifies the concept for me.
My problem has always been not finding active role-players. I'm almost always the one running things, or trying to get things going in some way. Whether it's to host a part, drop a quest seed, or just walk up to people.
Eventually I got sick of being the active role-player. And like some folks mentioned, other role-players begin looking at you as if you're elitist or want to come off as a special snowflake. Back in Tera, I stopped being active, I just gave up. I'd sit in the tavern with my RP groups, not a single one would say anything. If they did it was almost always something to do with romance at best.
What little rp I did get was shallow, and rarely hit the setting or game world. Everyone I met was playing a modern day American in fantasy land. Just responding to whatever I said in the most mundane sterile fashion. So eventually I just gave up trying. I tried to come up with stories using the setting, racial tensions, political intrigue, and Machiavellian power schemes (I would allude to them). Inevitably you'd have groups of people claiming I was racist or out of my mind (they didn't understand role-play vs real life.)
So I came over to Final Fantasy after the 14 day trial thing. I'd heard all the good guilds from Tera moved over to FF.
So far I've found pretty much the same experience I got in Tera. So I made a completely Reactive character in F'eora. She'll go with the flow and react to what ever is going on around her. I still walk up to people and such since I'm a very social person. But F'eora is no where near as in depth as my character in Tera, and that's a real shame.
I've struggled with this for years. Have quit whole games over this (big reason I left Tera). I never put it in simple terms reactive vs active, but now that several of you have defined it, it solidifies the concept for me.
My problem has always been not finding active role-players. I'm almost always the one running things, or trying to get things going in some way. Whether it's to host a part, drop a quest seed, or just walk up to people.
Eventually I got sick of being the active role-player. And like some folks mentioned, other role-players begin looking at you as if you're elitist or want to come off as a special snowflake. Back in Tera, I stopped being active, I just gave up. I'd sit in the tavern with my RP groups, not a single one would say anything. If they did it was almost always something to do with romance at best.
What little rp I did get was shallow, and rarely hit the setting or game world. Everyone I met was playing a modern day American in fantasy land. Just responding to whatever I said in the most mundane sterile fashion. So eventually I just gave up trying. I tried to come up with stories using the setting, racial tensions, political intrigue, and Machiavellian power schemes (I would allude to them). Inevitably you'd have groups of people claiming I was racist or out of my mind (they didn't understand role-play vs real life.)
So I came over to Final Fantasy after the 14 day trial thing. I'd heard all the good guilds from Tera moved over to FF.
So far I've found pretty much the same experience I got in Tera. So I made a completely Reactive character in F'eora. She'll go with the flow and react to what ever is going on around her. I still walk up to people and such since I'm a very social person. But F'eora is no where near as in depth as my character in Tera, and that's a real shame.
