I feel as though it's much more important for someone to be able to believably pull off a character concept then it is for them to OOC'ly be able to back a concept up. How RP is done in this game can mostly be considered a shared writing experience where we're all acting together to create stories in the XIV setting.Â
We're only interacting with the game in a round about way as we do this as in we may play, as an example, a mercenary, born in Ala Mhigo and committed to the restoration of his homeland. Yet we can only impact the Ala Mhigan resistance to other people and not the game world directly. In that way it's much more important that people could interact with us and think 'I could see him really being part of the resistance, this feels authentic to me.' Or something along those lines. ( I realize now my entire series of thoughts on this are hard to put properly into words! )
In some cases though some OOC things make that mutual writing and suspension of disbelief easier. My main character is an Ishgardian Dragoon. For me personally to feel as though I could pull that off in a realistic manner I first set about getting my class to cap, my armor augmented and then glamoured onto the pieces I wanted to use. That's not to say it's not possible to do without the armor, but that for me and the people I interact with regularly that helped make my character more believable.
^ the wording may be a little weird, I am coming off the crusp of insomnia so forgive me if it's off @_@;
We're only interacting with the game in a round about way as we do this as in we may play, as an example, a mercenary, born in Ala Mhigo and committed to the restoration of his homeland. Yet we can only impact the Ala Mhigan resistance to other people and not the game world directly. In that way it's much more important that people could interact with us and think 'I could see him really being part of the resistance, this feels authentic to me.' Or something along those lines. ( I realize now my entire series of thoughts on this are hard to put properly into words! )
In some cases though some OOC things make that mutual writing and suspension of disbelief easier. My main character is an Ishgardian Dragoon. For me personally to feel as though I could pull that off in a realistic manner I first set about getting my class to cap, my armor augmented and then glamoured onto the pieces I wanted to use. That's not to say it's not possible to do without the armor, but that for me and the people I interact with regularly that helped make my character more believable.
^ the wording may be a little weird, I am coming off the crusp of insomnia so forgive me if it's off @_@;
