(03-27-2015, 10:21 PM)Kellach Woods Wrote: Way I see it :
- I'm flagged as a RPer in Examine > Search info (Immediately mention I'm a RPer, and then a couple of words that mention basic themes with my character). I've gotten tells from people finding my character sexy (and one of them subsequently going pls hump your character's crotch against mine), but not anywhere near RPing.Â
- I have a Wiki, it's not linked in my search info because my experience from just having one linked in my sig nobody gives a shit. I also have a problem with integrating out-of-game stuff with in-game personally so that doesn't help.
- I've posted lots of character stuff and have heard ALMOST nary a peep from anyone (Jaques made some awesome fanart of a Bulletin Board entry I put up and that is ALL I've heard of it without actively going READ THIS THING in a LS and even then it was as an example of how much an idiot I am).
- Walking around has never worked. Like seriously. I do not know what these people who just walk around and get RP actually do but I've tried walking around and getting RP, with a grand total of jack and shit for my troubles. It'd be more efficient getting RP in a goddamn Duty Roulette than walking around.
Yes I'm frustrated. Not because I'm not getting RP (I could stand to get more personally but if things are hopping I can get my share) but because every single thing that was posted I have tried and with negative results and more personally because I'm tired of busting my ass to do something and then just not getting feedback or interest from it. Surprisingly enough because I'm heated on the forums, I am a pretty chill dude in-game. I can roll with pretty much everything.
I don't know where you people with actual "ins" are, but you aren't where I am.
The only thing that did work was complaining OOC on the forums about how much I'm trash at PvE which landed me in a LS and allowed me access to the inner workings of a group of people, which allowed me access to various contacts. Even then there's still a struggle because I'm not affiliated with anyone's plot or FC.
Speakin' of, any of you have experience bartering with tonberries?
You are quoting a lot of stuff I randomly talked about to "how to get a RPer to give the opportunity to RP with you" but you completely forgot the next part I explained which was "How to use those informations to create some new connections".
What you describe here is the first step if you want people to connect with you. Not you to connect with someone. You forgot the most important thing : Be active yourself.
- You have to link your wiki in game because not everybody is on the forum. Don't assume that because you are using the forum, everybody is and so it's not necessary.
- Walking will give to the other person the information that you are a RPer and IC. But it's the same for you if you see someone doing the same : Approach them and do something if you want a new connection. You are only indicating that you are open for RP, you aren't engaging any RP if you walk.
What you describe is mostly a passive way to obtain RP, I'm sure you did some other things, but you cannot expect to only do the step 1 and wait for others to engage some RP with you. There have to be someone who will engage it and never expect the others to do it.
How do most of people met and got close to each others ?
- FC / LS
- Events.
- Friends.
- Common plots.
Just read this and get the problem : Most of people have an occasion to meet, something that make the link and when they don't ? They create it themselves (cf. Tiergan and his offer of a free round of drinks).
Never expect the RP to come to you, go and make it possible.
While all I described on my very first post and you quoted are some things that will definitely help you and will help the people you will engage to have a positive reaction toward you, expecting this to be enough is a mistake. You have to do the rest of the job, you have to create some occasions, you have to include the other people in your character's life in a way or another and after some time, you will meet more and more some people who will know you while you never met them : People talk OOC, they will talk about you too, about how you engage others IC, about the fun they had with you and all those sorts of things. And that's when this thing happen, when that balance change between "that guy who walk near the QS and never talk" and "I met Kellach, he included my character in his plot" that the people will naturally get curious and come to you by themselves, because you, yourself and your character BECAME the bait, and when this happens ? Congratulation, people will seek for you or when you will engage them they will be all "I know you, I know what you did". That's how those some people like to call "popular" did, they actually worked hard in a way or another to get the attention of the other people, they didn't wait and expect everything to come at them.
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