(07-02-2013, 09:33 AM)Moonfire Wrote: I get that. But then why bother to lvl other things OOCly on that character? It breaks immersion to others who are around you RPing. They know you are an RPer and start a conversation. Then you say "sorry I don't lvl ICly." kind of bursts their bubble and throws everything off. Granted you have to learn to deal with this because not everyone RPs. But it is kind of a shame to get the same thing from RPers.I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say here. Not everyone has to "level" ICly. Particularly for additional classes/jobs, the person may just be leveling them because they're a completionist (something I can totally get behind). But also, it is not uncommon for roleplayers to have a character that is, in game mechanics terms, a particular class, but is not that at all ICly.
For example, in TERA one of my main RP characters is a former magitech engineer who was involved in some not so pleasant shenanigans that have basically left her handicapped by pain and a corresponding drug addiction meant to try and deal with that pain. She also happens to be my "main" in game play and when I rolled her, I rolled her as a warrior. The thing is, she is not in any way a warrior ICly. She's not trained in swords at all; she's a civilian who used to be a productive member of society as an engineer but has since become... well, not. (It would take waaaaay to long to explain all the RP I've done with her since launch of the game, so I'll just leave it at that. xD) She was given swords once, recently. They were an experiment created by one of our key antagonists in our little plot, and though Ariadne possessed them, she certainly didn't know how to use them aside from swinging one around wildly.
So yea, warrior in game mechanics, but definitely not one ICly. And it's not very hard to get people to accept this (especially when you run around RPing without a weapon equipped - no one should be able to "see" your class ICly anyway).
On a similar vein, I also often ignore level when it comes to a character's proficiency in a certain discipline - and I'm not the only one. This is usually due to my want to have a particular character concept, but only wanting the character for RP rather than gameplay.
So yea, IC class and OOC class are not as clear cut as you might think they are.
Regarding the in-game day/night cycle: It's insanely fast. There's no way I'm taking that time as canon.