Regarding Case 1 above, introverts are generally tricky to play off because most people expect your character to either be:
1) Unrealistically social
2) Supra nice and happy go lucky!!!!
3) All about making their character "feel good"
That is the general perspective of folks in FFXIV RP. Folks are predictable and I've seen some exceptional characters who are indeed - well played under rare circumstances.
Anyways onto Case 2, a most amusing case for me because that is a very phenomenal issue that terrorizes a grand majority of RP communities out there, espeicially FFXIV.
Romance in RP, is incredibly delicate if the person you're dealing with is someone you just met and hardly know. From the scenario you were describing however I am going to cross my fingers and hope that the lady in question was just ICly promiscuous, but somehow I typically can tell that there's a lot of OOC desires just bleeding into "her" roleplay (a reason that seems highly common everywhere).
If you want an actual romantic relationship ICly however, make sure to know the person well OOC. I hate bleeding in IC and OOC sometimes but this is the only great exception (including guilds or FC invites) where you need to greatly evaluate the person beyond the character. You dodge a lot of problems that way, otherwise you can simply avoid romance in RP entirely and I think that can benefit you a lot more. Shame that ERP is all people tend to look for these days other than proper storytelling.
Something happened to a friend of mine who was RPing as my character's lover. She ended up getting a hostile tell from an old "friend" of mine who was most likely jealous. The comment "you stole my man you slut" came forth from a level 1 alt made by said old friend. I've also been taken note of the numerous cases of such scenarios happening to other people have been surprising, the mere female character receiving a tell saying "wanna get on a relationship, im betta than yo man" is high to the point where it worries me since the RP community here isn't very big.
Anyways, I've heard reports of stalkers and ERP fanatics in countless RP communities to the point where I've grown to just ask "why?". To me these people are like strange creatures, aliens from other planets. When someone just falls under the spectrum of participating in countless ERP sessions or just stalking others, makes me want to ask a lot of questions.
Why? How? What?
Provocation tends to happen, miscommunication is a big one from what I've known, or the person is generally a poor excuse of a roleplayer and should go back to his eroticas/stalkings in places other than a vidya game. This type of activity is what gave the server in WoW's Moon Guard a bad name, despite the fact that there are plenty of good and legit roleplayers out there (more than here to say the least) which is normal since it has a large and evergrowing population.
1) Unrealistically social
2) Supra nice and happy go lucky!!!!
3) All about making their character "feel good"
That is the general perspective of folks in FFXIV RP. Folks are predictable and I've seen some exceptional characters who are indeed - well played under rare circumstances.
Anyways onto Case 2, a most amusing case for me because that is a very phenomenal issue that terrorizes a grand majority of RP communities out there, espeicially FFXIV.
Romance in RP, is incredibly delicate if the person you're dealing with is someone you just met and hardly know. From the scenario you were describing however I am going to cross my fingers and hope that the lady in question was just ICly promiscuous, but somehow I typically can tell that there's a lot of OOC desires just bleeding into "her" roleplay (a reason that seems highly common everywhere).
If you want an actual romantic relationship ICly however, make sure to know the person well OOC. I hate bleeding in IC and OOC sometimes but this is the only great exception (including guilds or FC invites) where you need to greatly evaluate the person beyond the character. You dodge a lot of problems that way, otherwise you can simply avoid romance in RP entirely and I think that can benefit you a lot more. Shame that ERP is all people tend to look for these days other than proper storytelling.
Something happened to a friend of mine who was RPing as my character's lover. She ended up getting a hostile tell from an old "friend" of mine who was most likely jealous. The comment "you stole my man you slut" came forth from a level 1 alt made by said old friend. I've also been taken note of the numerous cases of such scenarios happening to other people have been surprising, the mere female character receiving a tell saying "wanna get on a relationship, im betta than yo man" is high to the point where it worries me since the RP community here isn't very big.
Anyways, I've heard reports of stalkers and ERP fanatics in countless RP communities to the point where I've grown to just ask "why?". To me these people are like strange creatures, aliens from other planets. When someone just falls under the spectrum of participating in countless ERP sessions or just stalking others, makes me want to ask a lot of questions.
Why? How? What?
Provocation tends to happen, miscommunication is a big one from what I've known, or the person is generally a poor excuse of a roleplayer and should go back to his eroticas/stalkings in places other than a vidya game. This type of activity is what gave the server in WoW's Moon Guard a bad name, despite the fact that there are plenty of good and legit roleplayers out there (more than here to say the least) which is normal since it has a large and evergrowing population.
