(02-08-2016, 11:48 PM)Burd Wrote: After getting a response like that, I don't blame you - I never heard anything like that about Balmung when I was first getting a sense for where to go as a new player looking for RP. Might have been some RP elitism in action, there.
But +1 to your advice!
I tend to be an Observer now, I'll sit back and watch people in open RP and gauge if they are approachable or not. I'm still a very shy roleplayer, I'm no good with lore(though I tend to remember everything from the story if I'm actively playing), I'm a terrible story writer, I also tend to project myself in my characters meaning when I roleplay I talk as a normally do. Thing is I first started playing RP servers cause I got tired of how the community was in PvE and PvP servers, My MMO career started back in 04 when I bought FFXI on the ps2 and at the time I had no idea what the difference between playstyles were. As a matter of fact I always thought of RP as a bunch of people taking each others wizard robes off and hiding in the basement afraid of daylight.
I didn't join an RP server until Rift came out when I decided to give it a try as I heard the community was more mature and patient(by this time WoW had poisoned my view of people in MMO's), got tired of hearing "L2P Noob" when someone was new and asked a question, or didn't know how to play. Got tired of having to rush through dungeons because people just wanted to get their daily done. Needless to say I started a guild on Faeblight that ended up becoming one of the top 5 guilds on the server at the time but we focused more on the PvE side(couldn't get alot of members that wanted to RP), and during a move I left my Co-leader in charge while I was away and when I got back she had taken my guild, forums and vent from me, kicked out all my officers that didn't agree with it and moved the guild to a PvE server. So I ended up going back to WoW jumping on the pve train again until I went to Tera and started Heavens Protectorate on Celestial Hills and tried to get into RP again, it failed half my members wanted RP the other have wanted PvE and I kinda grew bored of the game within a month and left it. Went back to WoW until ToR came out and I loved ToR, Star Wars nerd like no other, so I was in my element, comfortable with my character/lore but still afraid to RP cause I spent all that time on RP servers but never RP'd.
Long story short I'm hoping when I finally come back to FFXIV and I give RP another try I can actually do it this time, but the only way I can change is if I make the change myself.
(02-09-2016, 01:54 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I have to say, this is completely nuts. Â I came to Balmung with 2.0, having never played the game beforehand except in the Beta for ARR. Â The overwhelming majority of my interactions have been positive.
There's always going to be assholes on any server, but I can attest that the vast, really overwhelming majority of players that I've encountered have not been raging douches.
Yeah when I went to Gilgamesh and mentioned the story to people(I think it was Adolar and the Adventures Guild) that told me I just had a freak experience, but by that time I had already established a group of friends, a FC house in the Goblet plot 10 Ward 3, and leveled all but 2 combat classes to 50 and all the crafting/gathering jobs to 40/50 so I stayed on Gilgamesh. Still never RP'd I tried once with Adolar and the Adventures guild but I was terrible, took me forever to think of something to say, became a nervous wreck and ended up sitting in a chair for an hour or so talking about how pretty the Miqote waitress was.
(02-09-2016, 03:19 AM)Edgar Wrote: <snip>
Exactly how RP feels to me when I join an already established server....high school
