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ZOMGodzilla · **09-29-2016, 03:53 PM**

(09-29-2016, 04:54 AM)Chichiyo Chiyo Wrote: I have mixed feelings about this new status icon. I really wish that it was added a long time ago but there we go. I now feel forced to use it to let others know that i'm available for role play.
Now, I don't play with player character names on as I dislike blue letters hovering over peoples heads all over the place and especially when role playing.
So with that, I never see anyones status icon anyway unless I target and click them. I was just role playing yesterday and somebody whispered me the following:

"Are you a roleplayer?" (At this moment I am quite clearly roleplaying with someone.)
"You know there is an RP tag right?"

So I replied, Well I don't see peoples names or mine so I kind of just forgot about it.

"Well people might get confused..."

And he just went on and on.

Fair enough if the status icon had been around for quite some time. But it was a day.

I hate that I feel forced to use it now whenever I go to role play. I'm pretty much open to role play wherever I am unless i'm crafting, by the marketboards or in duty. All the places you usually don't find anyone being IC that often.

Does anyone else feel abit 'forced' to use this to indicate whether they are available to role play now?
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate their implementation of it but I feel it's a little late for it but I do believe it'll also just be a matter of time before we all get used to it too.

I don't think the tag is in any way necessary for roleplayers engaging in roleplay. No one is obligated to use it, much like you're not obligated to use /busy or /afk. Rather, I think that using it when not roleplaying is what causes confusion or defeats the purpose of the tag. Like I said, it seems best applied when you accept walk-ups/are IC rather than as a "mentor-esque" label.

When it comes to the argument that it allows people to know that, in fact, "you're actually a roleplayer" my thought process is this:
By utilizing the rp tag as a label of your status as a roleplayer, you've effectively changed the location of your search info rp tag and lost the ability to indicate when you're IC, which is a far more important I think.

Which would you rather get? A more immediate presence of your search info "Roleplayer" or a way to tell everyone you're available for walk ups, negating the need for anyone to /tell you?

The New 3.4 RP Status: What it means

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