(09-03-2014, 11:59 AM)AvalonBright Wrote:Quote:You can play the new in town, some what confused, looking for friends type.
Therein lies both a solution and a problem for Ashe. Much as I love the RP I'm pretty sad to see how centralized in "Ul'dump" it is.I'm not a fan of the city OOC and Ashe is definitely not a desert kitty either. Hanging around there compared to Limsa or Grid is just not her thing IC, other than some random traveling before leaving again. Which would lead to brief "new in town" communication but not somewhere she's like to pop up long term. She's even only in the Flames just to get that glorious Hunt gear...
Yet I've not seen RP anywhere else really. Certainly not in Limsa or Grid's Adventurers' Guilds, and not even in the Grid Amphitheater like I'd heard was occasionally busy. What led to using Ul'dah as the main hub, of all places? It's just so...drab and brown.
Let's....just keep Ul'dah out of this, because it will be defended and we don't need another thread going down that road. (Please don't bash any of the cities, it only opens avenues to people getting angry). Part of it is because a lot of RPers are already there, so even more join because it's established. Some just like the setting, which isn't for everyone, and for some like me, it's where most of my contacts are, despite that I'd probably like the shroud a bit more.
Limsa and Gridania do have communities, but from what I've heard, they're not quite as open-world as the RP in Ul'dah is. It goes both ways. Only thing I can really recommend is to coordinate with some players and build up a little storyline to follow. If fellow RPers see it, they might join in as well, and then there's a community being built! I can't speak for Limsa, but I am going to be trying to get my character into more of the Gridiania/Black Shroud area more often, since the maps are quite nice.
If there are places in La Noscea and the Black Shroud you like, directing fellow RPers to them with events and threads to use as hooks may help.
