Quote:So I am interested to hear how the RP is on the two servers, Balmung and Gilgamesh. Is there any active RP around? Any good RP linkshells I could join?
Coming from Gilgamesh, yes, there's RP about. Not as much as the early days but there's FC's and LS's going strong with plenty of people to RP with. But then there's fewer players now than there were in the early days in the usual tapering off of MMO's...heck, the infamous launch of the game, you were lucky to register a character, let alone log in. The community is still large. Some people server jump, I know some from Gilgamesh have gone to Balmung and likewise some have come from Balmung to Gilgamesh. From what I understand the communities on either side are different and may suit different people differently. I know Balmung was the original unofficial RP server and Gilgamesh was something decided by the community as a non-Legacy RP server. The differences? I have no experience of Balmung so I wouldn't really be able to say with any level of fairness.
In terms of quality, I've never really had a bad RP experience. In the early days there were trolls but the server pretty much accepts there's RPers and leaves them to their own devices. Still, there is something satisfying about watching a troll try too hard and then get really frustrated you're not taking bait, they get desperate for attention.
There's also occasional events going on, which get announced here.
Our FC has been around since BETA and we still have strong RPers and have a good time with RP. I don't see tavern RP as much as I used to, but there are RP neighbourhoods, particularly with the introduction of housing. In our housing neighbourhood there's 4 RP FC's. However, we're mostly story arc based and as pirates we do jobs and are very rarely found in a single spot - our house is pretty much a base for discussing illegal activities...The Maelstrom discovered our activities and found us to be too suspicious, so we built a house in Ul'dah and we're safe for the time being.
I think the only sad thing about RP and this game is that there's no real dedicated RP servers, so it relies on us as a community to smack heads together and be the masters of our own communities and folks who would normally join an RP server to RP may not necessarily realise the game has an RP community and not join a server with RP on it. That said, strong communities have been built and I am having a lot of fun as an RPer in this game and I love the lore to pieces, whilst I may not be a lore Nazi, I am happy to point people in the right direction (mistakes happen and people can be new to lore or may misinterpret something). None of my FC mates make me cringe, everybody's got a well formed character and are a great bunch.
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