Thinking out loud... I kind of wonder if it would be a good idea to plant a solid RP community for the EU RPers whose ping has gotten bad on one of these new EU servers that's coming in. Start at the start, so to speak.
Like others have said, part of the problem is that RP on Balmung is so established. It's everywhere; it's a high percentage of the player base on the server; RPers don't have to feel weird RPing out and about cause it's the norm. Every night there are 3-8 publicized RP events; this isn't counting FC/LS events that aren't put on the calendar. Hell, I even had a small group of roleplayers back on Atomos... but I wouldn't transfer back there to foster it; I have a veritable buffet of RP just handed out to me on Balmung. Running events on Balmung is enough work. Trying to grow a new community from scratch (by oneself or with one other person is where I'm coming from here, so ymmv) just makes me cringe.
A major problem is that you don't have any sort of consolidated offering of regular RP anywhere but Balmung. You have Siren, Mateus, Gilgamesh (? I thought all RPers left once it became the hardcore raiding server and some problems happened in the RP community), Phoenix, Shiva, Jenova... each with a small group saying "Come here!" Are any of these groups willing to move to ONE server to work together on this and offer what I see as a viable alternative to the big city that is Balmung?
(edited for clarity. I don't mean move all of the RPers to an EU server, lawls. I mean an actual viable EU RP server.)
Like others have said, part of the problem is that RP on Balmung is so established. It's everywhere; it's a high percentage of the player base on the server; RPers don't have to feel weird RPing out and about cause it's the norm. Every night there are 3-8 publicized RP events; this isn't counting FC/LS events that aren't put on the calendar. Hell, I even had a small group of roleplayers back on Atomos... but I wouldn't transfer back there to foster it; I have a veritable buffet of RP just handed out to me on Balmung. Running events on Balmung is enough work. Trying to grow a new community from scratch (by oneself or with one other person is where I'm coming from here, so ymmv) just makes me cringe.
A major problem is that you don't have any sort of consolidated offering of regular RP anywhere but Balmung. You have Siren, Mateus, Gilgamesh (? I thought all RPers left once it became the hardcore raiding server and some problems happened in the RP community), Phoenix, Shiva, Jenova... each with a small group saying "Come here!" Are any of these groups willing to move to ONE server to work together on this and offer what I see as a viable alternative to the big city that is Balmung?
(edited for clarity. I don't mean move all of the RPers to an EU server, lawls. I mean an actual viable EU RP server.)
