Unlike Forum RPing, MMO RPing is way more community heavy. My time RPing in Gaia i've noticed that if you are not in a guild for RPing one thing it's usually multiple things in various sub threads. As such the community is everywhere from original to actual RP in universe stuff.
MMOs on the other hand has more open community and to me the comment of "You can RP whatever you want, ignore haters' Only makes me shake my head. While yes you are free to RP what you want, you have to take in account that other people you may want to RP with may avoid you or worse...Spread stuff about how to avoid you. I'm not going to name anyone in particular but let's say person A's attitude OOC wise is highly known to be unstable and while he is good at his IC work on his character, slowly people stopped RPing with Person A because of how he takes some IC situations into OOC because of either an RP issue he hates or someone hating his RP
You can't please everyone but you CAN find a middle ground with the community of RPers. My thread I hope has been helpful for the group thus far about Voidsent and supernatural opinions and I will probably rename the topic to something more appropriate if it continues on.
So to me, hearing "You can RP whatever you want, Don't let others tell you how to play." Is more harm than good. You can RP whatever you want yes but if it actually breaks the lore you might not get a good group of players or even anyone responding because of your infamy.
For a while, I was actually scared to approach Warren and the Grindstone with Quint purely because my character was still fresh despite the backstory i hidden about her until then. I know Arala is more middle ground in terms of character but with Quint my lore stick was being bent on the verge of snapping in half with each person i talk to.Â
If you want to RP whatever you want, you have to also respect the limitations and already established lore in the game to make a good RP. But the subject in question I brought up is a concern since I'd want people to give me as much feedback as they wish about their opinions on it. I actively ignore the "Rp what i want" line purely because I don't want people's own immersions to be broken.
MMOs on the other hand has more open community and to me the comment of "You can RP whatever you want, ignore haters' Only makes me shake my head. While yes you are free to RP what you want, you have to take in account that other people you may want to RP with may avoid you or worse...Spread stuff about how to avoid you. I'm not going to name anyone in particular but let's say person A's attitude OOC wise is highly known to be unstable and while he is good at his IC work on his character, slowly people stopped RPing with Person A because of how he takes some IC situations into OOC because of either an RP issue he hates or someone hating his RP
You can't please everyone but you CAN find a middle ground with the community of RPers. My thread I hope has been helpful for the group thus far about Voidsent and supernatural opinions and I will probably rename the topic to something more appropriate if it continues on.
So to me, hearing "You can RP whatever you want, Don't let others tell you how to play." Is more harm than good. You can RP whatever you want yes but if it actually breaks the lore you might not get a good group of players or even anyone responding because of your infamy.
For a while, I was actually scared to approach Warren and the Grindstone with Quint purely because my character was still fresh despite the backstory i hidden about her until then. I know Arala is more middle ground in terms of character but with Quint my lore stick was being bent on the verge of snapping in half with each person i talk to.Â
If you want to RP whatever you want, you have to also respect the limitations and already established lore in the game to make a good RP. But the subject in question I brought up is a concern since I'd want people to give me as much feedback as they wish about their opinions on it. I actively ignore the "Rp what i want" line purely because I don't want people's own immersions to be broken.
