(09-08-2015, 03:10 PM)Melphina Wrote: So far from what I am reading, a lot of the people that don't RP grief RP'er's because it gives them a satisfaction for making fun of people that get a retreat from reality. People in particular are those that spam holy or AoE's in the Quicksand, which I've seen once or twice when I first started playing. This kind of bullying and shaming is what hinders the advancement of roleplay on other servers, and if people could just accept and forget, they would be able to grow substantially on their own without having to move at all.
In a way, it's Square's fault that it becomes a piece of the puzzle. Â Since we don't have an official RP server, we have to coexist with people who not only don't like RP, but don't have a way to avoid our chat scroll without blisting us.
I mean, if you're on an RP server and trolling, that's one thing. Â If you're a non-RPer who, for whatever reason, dislikes having it around, you're surrounded by targets and you can't really escape it.
Honestly, it's always worth having an RP server, or an RP phase mechanic, in every game. Â Yes, there will be people reporting trolls, but trolls get reported for annoying everyone, not just RPers. Â You just get a lot more trolls without one because there are so many people for whom RP was not a part of the package they signed up for on that server.
No excuses for ruining people's fun, but it's not like a chunk of it isn't avoidable if Square would just designate an RP server (or, more realistically, just do away with servers and institute an RP phase mechanic on a universal phased server).
