We're trying this out in our LS, and so far it's had a positive effect. One of our officers has been testing it out quite a bit, and hasn't really been that pestered by /tells for melds from non-RPers. (In fact, the main thing he's gotten is "What is that symbol for?", if anything. XD)
We had a fairly thoughtful discussion between our officers before we decided that it wouldn't do much harm to try this on for size. The benefits seemed to outweigh the effort involved, from our perspective. I also saw someone in the Thaumaturge's Guild with the symbol above their head today, and it was effective in generating the silent thought of "Oh, that person's an RPer and looking for RP!" (I already knew they were an RPer from a brief interaction. So, while they could have been looking for a Meld, I think they were using it for the purpose proposed in this thread.)
My thought is, if you don't want to use it, totally understandable! No one will ever take that freedom away from you. But in my mind, there isn't much to lose in the attempt of utilizing it, at least until SE opts to give us a true RP icon (if they ever do.) As with most things, this is just another makeshift, totally optional tool to hook people up with RP opportunities.
Disclaimer: I'm not attempting to convince anyone. I'm just adding my perspective and our experience to the topic and discussion. ^^
We had a fairly thoughtful discussion between our officers before we decided that it wouldn't do much harm to try this on for size. The benefits seemed to outweigh the effort involved, from our perspective. I also saw someone in the Thaumaturge's Guild with the symbol above their head today, and it was effective in generating the silent thought of "Oh, that person's an RPer and looking for RP!" (I already knew they were an RPer from a brief interaction. So, while they could have been looking for a Meld, I think they were using it for the purpose proposed in this thread.)
My thought is, if you don't want to use it, totally understandable! No one will ever take that freedom away from you. But in my mind, there isn't much to lose in the attempt of utilizing it, at least until SE opts to give us a true RP icon (if they ever do.) As with most things, this is just another makeshift, totally optional tool to hook people up with RP opportunities.
Disclaimer: I'm not attempting to convince anyone. I'm just adding my perspective and our experience to the topic and discussion. ^^
