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Seye Qhesu · **06-13-2015, 12:55 PM**

(06-13-2015, 12:49 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote:
(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.

Now, if you were spamming I could understand but you stated you were not so I find it rude on the RPer for trying to ask you to go elsewhere. As I stated, this is not an RP server. We, however, do very well with our community. We try to be polite. As a roleplayer we, however, should not police OOC/non rpers to go elsewhere because they are ruining our fantasy world. That causes trolling and that is why many will jump and dance on us because they know it bothers us (those who let it bother them anyway.) We need to understand that we share the server. OOC is going to happen, dancing on tables is going to happen. Unless you are spamming emotes I see no problem with people being OOC or being silly around me. I will just ignore them and keep to my thing. Not hard.

And I have only said something oocly when trying to RP and someone was spamming the hell out of their emotes for the annoying lalafell sound and scrollage of shocked. Come to find out they didn't know you could turn off the emote text. Helped them out, they spammed it and I played without my game sound (listening to music on pandora instead).

Roleplaying etiquette for open world on Balmung

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