Satisiun Wrote:Honestly, I don't look at having a lack of a role-play linkshell as some form of impediment. If anything, it's a wonderful challenge, forcing you to be more creative, not to mention more active in initiating contact with other people within the scope of the game, instead of just half-assing it and planning with someone else out of character in your linkshell.
Not to say that's bad or anything. Just a lot of people use it as a lazy means to begin character interaction, instead of free-forming it.
When I ran a RP LS, the events that got planned out OOC'ly were done so in order to make sure all the players would be available at a certain time. This was usually the case for players who were moving their story arc along. WIth forum RP, it's a lot easier, as you can wait over the period of days for everyone (who is needed) to particpate in the thread. In-game, the RP is done right then and there, so there has to be some sort of planning for a huge event like that.
For everyday RP, it usually went about as organically as you are referring to. Our characters would just start up RP here or there in a natural way.
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