Hello and welcome!! Â 
There was something you posted that I agreed with and felt compelled to acknowledge:
In XIV in 1.0 I never really encountered anything like this, but it would kind of put me off if I did. Â Many RPers (myself one of them) have created extensive and elaborate backstories and histories. Â The wiki pages outline a lot of these details, but I don't think there should be any expectation upon anyone to read these. Â I can certainly appreciate that it may seem daunting to do all of this "homework" before being able to interact with a character. Â But new characters with whom your character would be unfamiliar should probably be regarded however your character would regard any stranger without having any previous knowledge of them.
I have always made it a point for Eva to be fairly readily approachable, though I certainly have no expectation that anyone know her life story before engaging in a random dialogue with her. Â I can't speak for all RPers, but I do think most around here adopt a similar sort of policy. Â
There was something you posted that I agreed with and felt compelled to acknowledge:
(05-13-2013, 09:41 AM)Magellan Wrote: Too many characters require that you have extensive knowledge of their backgrounds to even interact with them. I find that by living in the moment (the present), my characters are accessible to rp with just about anyone at any time. Yet if you drone on and on to them about things that are not relevant to them in any way, they will get confused, or walk away.
In XIV in 1.0 I never really encountered anything like this, but it would kind of put me off if I did. Â Many RPers (myself one of them) have created extensive and elaborate backstories and histories. Â The wiki pages outline a lot of these details, but I don't think there should be any expectation upon anyone to read these. Â I can certainly appreciate that it may seem daunting to do all of this "homework" before being able to interact with a character. Â But new characters with whom your character would be unfamiliar should probably be regarded however your character would regard any stranger without having any previous knowledge of them.
I have always made it a point for Eva to be fairly readily approachable, though I certainly have no expectation that anyone know her life story before engaging in a random dialogue with her. Â I can't speak for all RPers, but I do think most around here adopt a similar sort of policy. Â
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