(09-08-2015, 08:02 PM)Manari Wrote:(09-08-2015, 05:40 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: The trampled patches of grass on Balmung and Gilgamesh could be seen as "more stable", "more enticing" or just "more RPer friendly" that the vast wilderness and wide-open plains of some other server. If given the choice, I think people would probably keep trying to drive on a paved road or dirt road than to drive through an open field/sand dunes/forest.
Remember that the entire reason this thread was originally created was because it is extremely difficult to successfully get into either Balmung or Gilgamesh as they are two of the highest population servers and the only 2 "unofficial RP" servers. Â I feel like everyone still is trying to argue why it's better to stay on Balmung. Â Of course it's better to stay on Balmung or Gilgamesh. Â They have large, established RP communities and no one is arguing that. Â
This thread was created because new RPers can not get into them. Â Not without paying real money for a server transfer anyway.
But here's that nagging issue. A flock of new RPers on some new 3rd "unofficial" server isn't going to fix anything. The same people trying to make characters on Balmung and Gilgamesh and every. other. server. will still have issues doing so. The people proposing the idea to designate a 3rd server seemingly have no intention of building a community there.
A new city can be built with the nicest of buildings, roads and houses. It can have buildings for all sorts of offices and shops. It doesn't really make much of a city if people don't move in though. What keeps being proposed in this thread is that we need a new city (a 3rd "unofficial RP server"). I haven't gotten the impression that anyone here really has the intention of doing that. If there's no appeal of RPing on a 3rd server because nobody is there, why would someone RP on it?
(09-08-2015, 08:15 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: It's possible to get into Greg/Balmung with server transfers. I believe Ember's intentions were the absolute best thing, but the thread still boils down to "Where do we, Balmung and Greg and Others, tell random newbies to RP?"
It's not a great position. When "we" settled on Balmung ages ago, we were deciding for ourselves. This is declaring where others should go, and it's awkward.
THANK YOU. Not to mention that building a community based off designating some other server could not sustain a community there. If one filled a room with [possibly] antisocial people who don't know each other, could we really expect them to magically break out of their shells and start talking to people?
(09-08-2015, 02:44 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: The problem is the more spread out people are, the less a RP community can be organized.
These small RP communities are great if you're looking for a linkshell or maybe a few FCs. But if people are hoping for more visible RP like what we see on Balmung, more organization is going to be required.
I am glad others are taking initiative to create these but if a full, visible RP server that is comparable to Balmung is the goal here, there needs to be 1. Unified effort and 2. RPC's support to make it happen.
I'm going to bold part of the OP post for emphasis.
1. We can't make that happen.Â
2. This is problematic for two different reasons.
- 2-1) The RPC is here for -all servers-. All of them. It just happens that a vast majority is on Balming, and the part that isn't is mostly on Gilgamesh.
- 2-2) How can we seemingly make an effort to make such a 3rd server work when nobody is looking to RP outside their current server? Isn't that a contradiction? This isn't to called Flickering Ember out on it. Like Warren said, I believe the intention to be great. It's really something that should happen! ...but at the same time, I myself have no motivation to try leveling up a brand new character on some other server just for the sake of having an alt to RP as when I can't even keep up on Balmung. I can't even handle having an alt on Balmung!
