5mn is too short. Way too short. If you think it's long, if it displeases you to wait and if you find it "bogus" that people cannot answer under the time you think as being normal ? Prepare to be utterly disappointed. Many, many RPer need more than 5mn to write an answer. Even more when they are surprised by some walk ups : It's easier to prepare a message when you're the one reaching to the others than being the one adapting to that new person who reaches out to you.
RPer are all different. Reading the search info will not tell you if the RPer in front of you is in the mood to RP or not, if they are AFK or not, if they write long sentences or not, if they are slow or fast, if they are english native or not (because yes, Balmung is an international server and a non native speaker might also be slower) etc. You cannot know anything of that just out of some "Walk ups welcome" announce on the search info and I don't know that many people who edit their search info every single time they are or aren't in the mood to RP.
If you want to find some RP and to walk up to someone, you might want to lower a little your expectations in the first place, then try those things :
- PM the person before engaging anything, usually people are quick to answer to an OOC question while they are slow to answer to some sudden IC post. Offer them to RP, thus you won't have the feeling to waste your time. Plus you can totally go ahead and just do something else such as checking the MB or your retainer while the person answer.. Or not.
- Make sure you're not in a place where the chat scrolls fast. Because it's extremely complicated to follow what happens in a place such as the Quicksands or during an event. If you want to RP there and both you and your RP partner agreed on RPing in such place ? RP in party. And that might be another reason why some people didn't answer to you in some crowded places such as the Quicksand and the Grindstone : Some don't post in say channel, but in party to be able to focus on what their RP partner is saying and thus easily miss some stuff which are said aside.
- Try to go in some events, join a LS, post a thingy in the making connection topic, schedule some rp, etc. if walking up upsets you.
But again, while 5mn seems to be long enough to answer for you, it's fairly possible that it's too short for many of the RPer out there. Yes it's surprising and it surprised me as well, but it's the case
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@Franz : I do myself some super long answer at time, but I post the pieces one after another using the > symbol at the end of one of the part to announce that something will come next (which  also allow my partners to react if relevant ^^), so I post a little paragraph each 5mn
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RPer are all different. Reading the search info will not tell you if the RPer in front of you is in the mood to RP or not, if they are AFK or not, if they write long sentences or not, if they are slow or fast, if they are english native or not (because yes, Balmung is an international server and a non native speaker might also be slower) etc. You cannot know anything of that just out of some "Walk ups welcome" announce on the search info and I don't know that many people who edit their search info every single time they are or aren't in the mood to RP.
If you want to find some RP and to walk up to someone, you might want to lower a little your expectations in the first place, then try those things :
- PM the person before engaging anything, usually people are quick to answer to an OOC question while they are slow to answer to some sudden IC post. Offer them to RP, thus you won't have the feeling to waste your time. Plus you can totally go ahead and just do something else such as checking the MB or your retainer while the person answer.. Or not.
- Make sure you're not in a place where the chat scrolls fast. Because it's extremely complicated to follow what happens in a place such as the Quicksands or during an event. If you want to RP there and both you and your RP partner agreed on RPing in such place ? RP in party. And that might be another reason why some people didn't answer to you in some crowded places such as the Quicksand and the Grindstone : Some don't post in say channel, but in party to be able to focus on what their RP partner is saying and thus easily miss some stuff which are said aside.
- Try to go in some events, join a LS, post a thingy in the making connection topic, schedule some rp, etc. if walking up upsets you.
But again, while 5mn seems to be long enough to answer for you, it's fairly possible that it's too short for many of the RPer out there. Yes it's surprising and it surprised me as well, but it's the case
!@Franz : I do myself some super long answer at time, but I post the pieces one after another using the > symbol at the end of one of the part to announce that something will come next (which  also allow my partners to react if relevant ^^), so I post a little paragraph each 5mn
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