No worries about being picky you have to find your perfect home for your character.
We don't script RPs in Equilibrium, we have a general idea with direction of a storyline, but it's by no means scripted. We had a major RP this weekend where the dark side should have "gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids" (surprise meeting, better skills etc), but due to the way RP happened they didn't exactly win the day. We knew we wanted to have a meeting of the evil side and the good side, but how that turned out was up to the RP.
There is also impromptu RP that happens all the time. Our guild has one of those RP tags, so to me personally that means if you stop and talk to me I'll stop and talk to you. Granted some of this has happened while I was in a mixture of terribly ugly low level fishing gear and had to make excuses for it. But that's my personal take on it. That being said members of our guild aren't required to RP and we've added a few members who are friends of friends and don't RP, which is why FC chat is typically OOC. And just asking for RP in FC chat, can probably get at least one taker, sure meeting up is planned but that's about it.
In short, RP isn't scripted, but it isn't CONSTANT. I'm honestly not sure I would even have the stamina for such an endeavor. Just like I can't run CT for hours on end, because it gets old and exhausting. So to I think would occur when trying to stay in character. That's not to say I haven't done extended 6 to 8 hour RP sessions on the weekends, but to do so everytime I'd log into the game pretty sure I'd go insane...especially since I know have 8 RP characters each with their own personality and story...it would be like having schizophrenia or at least how I would imagine it.
And while I agree your character shouldn't BE you, you are however part of your character no matter how hard you try not to be. You made it, you wrote it, part of you is in there even if it's small. Example...I HATE tea, my character Evie hates tea. I have no reason why she hates tea, she just does. That's part of me in her.
Though in order to try and not derail your original topic too much (sorry about that XD) I'll stop with that (though it's an interesting discussion and not sure if it's shown up before on the forums). I really don't know of many guilds with this type of set up and that are dark aligned. I know whenever I talk to Konner Kincaid in game he's in character (FC lead of the Order of Sword and Rose) but I believe his FC is good aligned. The Laughing Lady is more....neutral than dark, an anything goes type...not sure if their FC is IC, but I know their LS is. So there's at least two other options you might look into and get more information for.
And finally....sorry for the lengthy post.
We don't script RPs in Equilibrium, we have a general idea with direction of a storyline, but it's by no means scripted. We had a major RP this weekend where the dark side should have "gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids" (surprise meeting, better skills etc), but due to the way RP happened they didn't exactly win the day. We knew we wanted to have a meeting of the evil side and the good side, but how that turned out was up to the RP.
There is also impromptu RP that happens all the time. Our guild has one of those RP tags, so to me personally that means if you stop and talk to me I'll stop and talk to you. Granted some of this has happened while I was in a mixture of terribly ugly low level fishing gear and had to make excuses for it. But that's my personal take on it. That being said members of our guild aren't required to RP and we've added a few members who are friends of friends and don't RP, which is why FC chat is typically OOC. And just asking for RP in FC chat, can probably get at least one taker, sure meeting up is planned but that's about it.
In short, RP isn't scripted, but it isn't CONSTANT. I'm honestly not sure I would even have the stamina for such an endeavor. Just like I can't run CT for hours on end, because it gets old and exhausting. So to I think would occur when trying to stay in character. That's not to say I haven't done extended 6 to 8 hour RP sessions on the weekends, but to do so everytime I'd log into the game pretty sure I'd go insane...especially since I know have 8 RP characters each with their own personality and story...it would be like having schizophrenia or at least how I would imagine it.
And while I agree your character shouldn't BE you, you are however part of your character no matter how hard you try not to be. You made it, you wrote it, part of you is in there even if it's small. Example...I HATE tea, my character Evie hates tea. I have no reason why she hates tea, she just does. That's part of me in her.
Though in order to try and not derail your original topic too much (sorry about that XD) I'll stop with that (though it's an interesting discussion and not sure if it's shown up before on the forums). I really don't know of many guilds with this type of set up and that are dark aligned. I know whenever I talk to Konner Kincaid in game he's in character (FC lead of the Order of Sword and Rose) but I believe his FC is good aligned. The Laughing Lady is more....neutral than dark, an anything goes type...not sure if their FC is IC, but I know their LS is. So there's at least two other options you might look into and get more information for.
And finally....sorry for the lengthy post.
