(06-13-2015, 11:04 AM)Foxberry Wrote:(06-13-2015, 10:34 AM)Lilia Lia Wrote: It's inconsiderate when people idle OOC in RP hotspots, especially when they're doing something like standing on tables. Â I think the OP of that forum thread was justified in finding that annoying.
Except this is the unofficial server for rp. People can stand around if they like and idle as long as they aren't trolling. I fail to see why it's rude to watch rp or stand around ooc. It is still a quest hub in quicksand. Balmung isn't an rp only server. I don't like table standing and trollish behavior however.
This. It's give and take; we can't just claim a spot and say "this is for RP." We have to share that space. Suddenly I'm reminded of a situation not long ago, in which a friend of mine and Rivienne's wanted us to come to the Canopy to see her new glamour.
We were talking out in the open, (tells wouldn't have sufficed, as it was a three-way conversation and we were queued for duty so it's not as if we could reasonably invite the third participant to a party..) and we were even enclosing our discussion in brackets to differentiate our little chat from the single pair RPing downstairs.
All of a sudden, there it is: "[Can you take this to tells please?]" And I was stunned for a few seconds, because at this point our conversation was perhaps a few scattered lines and not spammy in the slightest. Now, I've been roleplaying for a really, really long time. Long enough to know that outside conversations "breaking" one's "immersion" is largely a myth, and long enough to know that we are in the minority and can't reasonably expect those around us to follow some strange rule of silence (or even stranger, not stand nearby) when they're in the vicinity of people who are roleplaying. It's exactly that kind of behavior that makes some people resent roleplayers.
Yvelont Navarre
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
