(09-10-2015, 02:58 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: The biggest challenge you can run into with time-as-experience is that, even if you've been roleplaying on XIV since day zero and you're around all the time, a random stranger still won't know you from Adam, and all of your actually-roleplayed history and experiences amount to nothing more than "But seriously, she spent sixty years training in the Time Chamber." It's all-but-impossible to "prove" yourself to someone who doesn't believe you should be as powerful as you think if they disagree in the first place, and even if you've got books and books of lovingly recorded RP logs to point them at, in any given encounter with strangers everyone is on equal footing.
This actually,
When I was still new to the Server my character got into a fight with another in the QS and she tried to "throw" my character. I didn't know who she was, however I did know while being relatively new my character was apart of the Immortal Flames and had been for sometime, he was experienced but maybe not seasoned. So an issue arose when this character I knew nothing about attempted to throw my character because I was bigger, I was in heavy armor, and from what I could tell she was some random blind chick, so being an armored warrior, who's decently trained and experienced in the field I took issue with this character sacrificing my character's physcality by saying she could walk up to him without him defending himself and throw him acrossed a room. A lot of this could be styles, this RPer apparently was more FF style physics where ridicules shit can happen, however I prefer realism so that didn't jive with me, so I took a middle ground I didn't get thrown but I got staggered and nearly fell over.
However this person then said I wasn't RPing correctly and left the RP claiming we were ignoring her messages (ignoring that fighting in the QS invites all the spectators and chat scrolling so it's possible we just missed what she was saying because she was doing so in /say). I then later found out she'd won some server wide fighting tournaments that I didn't even know were a thing and its quiet possible her character was that strong. Was her reaction a little over the top? Yes. Was my reaction to her original throw a little subpar? Yes. However I think you can really state that the cause of the problem was an older more experienced RPer on the server assumed that her strength was known and then got annoyed and made an ass out of herself when it wasn't. The whole thing could have been avoided with a few PMs too, had I known her resume I would have reacted differently, had she asked I could have explained my thoughts on why I did what I did, but her perceived "skill' made it to where she felt she was being treated poorly so she quit.Â
This same critique isn't just valid for skilled characters though, if you can't back up your claims then don't make them. Or vice versa if you want to claim something to set up an RP for later let your partners know 99% of the time they'll be willing to work with you because it helps their character development too. However don't just go around assuming you're a force to be reckoned with, because there's always a bigger fish and finding them can be very tricky.
"Don't be scared homie."
