
(01-05-2015, 04:20 AM)Shadow Master Wrote: 1. Does the game have word bubbles now?Nnnope! I wish.
From what I recall, it didn't have them back when A Realm Reborn was first released? Unless I was being blind, which is a distinct possibility.
(01-05-2015, 04:20 AM)Shadow Master Wrote: 2. If there are no word bubbles, how do you RP comfortably? Are there addons?Just takes getting used to most actions being done inside the chat window. There aren't any chat bubble add-ons that I've ever heard of. This game's very much against add-ons.
(01-05-2015, 04:20 AM)Shadow Master Wrote: 3. Is there dueling in the game?Nnnope! People have asked about that for a while; I don't even know if it's on the list of "things to do" for the dev team at this point.
Meaning, can you challenge other player characters to duels (/duel, etc.) outside of designated PvP instances? I can't seem to remember such a feature existing, so figured I'd ask.
(01-05-2015, 04:20 AM)Shadow Master Wrote: 4. What's the FFXIV RP community's general approach to settling in-character conflicts?No, that's pretty much how we do things here. There's no dueling to speak of, so everything I've seen done was through emotes, dice rolls, or both.
There's nothing I despise in WoW's RP community quite as much as when players use emotes and/or dice rolls to RP combat instead of... actually using the combat mechanics the game provides. Is that something common in FFXIV? Or do people generally resort to the game's combat mechanics?
(01-05-2015, 04:20 AM)Shadow Master Wrote: 5. On the same note as the previous question, is it possible to setup RP in PvP?Uhhh... I haven't done much PvP in this game, but I don't think RP is viable in it. It's all battlegrounds stuff like you guessed. This game never had much of a focus on PvP in general.
Or is all PvP restricted to strictly controlled PvP instances akin to battlegrounds, with timers/lack of chat channels/other restrictions?