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(03-14-2014, 02:13 PM)Magellan Wrote: @ Gyr: Playing auhthority itself isn't necessarily poor form, but assuming you have authority in someone else's plot is. If I elect myself the king of Eorzea and run around demanding everyone bow down to me and pay me taxes... I could get maybe 1 follower? ( there's always one)
People have trouble separating the two. They think; 'just because I made myself lawman, I have the right to arrest people.' Well... no, no you do not. I appreciate lawful good never sleeps, and is always on duty, so to speak. Heck, I've played a number of lawful chars myself... but I always make sure I'm welcome in the scene. Making assumptions in rp just like in real life, is often what leads to drama.
To be fair, I've RPed a long time, and almost universally the larger problem is always people who outright state in their information that they are known and wanted criminals, who then seem surprised that lawmen attempt to arrest them in town, having seen them in wanted posters that, at times, the criminals themselves have posted in their character information.
I'm not sure why that's less of a problem in FFXIV at the moment, at least from what I've seen, but my best guess is supply and demand. Â Criminals are being played too slickly and there aren't enough of them around. Â There are a lot of cops and local authorities around, though. Â There just isn't enough hell being raised in towns to warrant the gigantic player police presence.
That'd be hilarious if we got together and decided, as a community, that we would RP a gigantic layoff event where half the police and authority figures were downsized out of the budget.
EDIT: Â Or we could bus in criminals from other MMOs.