FF14-Tomcat Wrote:How exactly do the villains play out their villainy in game? For example, the mass serial killer- does he literally commit MPK (terms of FFXI) or is the killing done by story-telling and implication?Hopefully tactfully. But usually it's best done through word-of-mouth or storyline post, at least from my own experiences. Granted there were times in FF11 when ballista matches were scheduled to coincide with RP - in the instance I'm thinking of it coincided with something which was already predetermined - I'm lookin' at you Tyriont (Rathium). It worked out okay, but it was never really the norm.
How about stealing? Does the villain literally 'steal' loot or something like that?
I am a little confused as to how this is done. Sorry for the newbie questions
Hiname Wrote:I strongly recommand not basing your villany on game mechanics, that will SO turn out badly.For the most part, I agree with this. I can't speak too much to other MMO's, but FFXI/XIV seem to be pretty limited as far as PvP-type interactions go. If you tell a few people that you murdered some guards and request (OOCly) that they pass this along over /ls or some other medium, that's one way. It can be emoted, if the situation calls for it - and particularly if the linkpearls are treated as an audiovisual device rather than just audio (which we did in Crystalline to make RPing considerably easier).
Best thing you can probably do is write a post on your guild's forums or in the Storyline forums here at the RPC (or both!) and spell out what happened, making an OOC remark somewhere at the beginning or the end that the post may be common knowledge if it took place in a public location. Again, be careful - the more moral members of the community might come after you, particularly if your crime was a particularly heinous one.
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