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Meena · **06-30-2015, 11:02 PM**

People who antagonize other characters with their words then when attacked say they do not want to be attacked for their actions.

McBeefâ„¢ · **06-30-2015, 11:23 PM**

(06-30-2015, 11:02 PM)Meena Wrote: People who antagonize other characters with their words then when attacked say they do not want to be attacked for their actions.

Do you mean ICly or OOcly?

Meena · **06-30-2015, 11:45 PM**

(06-30-2015, 11:23 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:
(06-30-2015, 11:02 PM)Meena Wrote: People who antagonize other characters with their words then when attacked say they do not want to be attacked for their actions.

Do you mean ICly or OOcly?

IC.

So, say one person acts overly aggressive towards another, and that second person initiates a strike because she was aggrivated and harrassed IC for an hour. Then that first person refuses to accept any consequence of pissing off another adventurer.

Brilliance · **06-30-2015, 11:58 PM**

(06-30-2015, 10:31 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: To Tiergan its a good way for new people to maybe get some ideas of behaviours that might be pushing people away.

Also everyone loves to vent.

This ^ Everyone seems to be doing just fine being hospitable and kind, the only posts suggesting otherwise are typically the ones making remarks about how they think the topic/posters is/are rude. :B

Jaran · **07-01-2015, 12:27 AM**

(06-30-2015, 04:22 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:
(06-30-2015, 03:00 PM)Noire Wrote: -People who emote what would be an internal monologue. I shouldn't be able to read your mind unless I have some aforementioned ability to do so...which I don't.

What if it's to build proper subtext?

This I can understand and I don't mind, to an extent. Sometimes it genuinely does come down to a person's RP style, and I won't fault anyone for that.

However, I have seen people be pretty damn passive-aggressive in RP, and I've seen them use these 'internal monologues' or 'inner thoughts' to lash out at other people in an OOC manner with no IC repercussions... or at least not the same repercussions as if they'd actually said it out loud.

As for my own RP pet peeves, it's mostly just the usual; metagaming, powerplaying, taking control of my character, etc.
Also, as someone who enjoys all aspects of the game and often grinds to relax and does PvE to see the story and have fun, I really dislike it when someone expects me to RP with them every single day. Very often, it's IC couples/partners who do this (as has been mentioned earlier.)
I've been guilted into near burn-out before just because my character wound up in an IC relationship. I'm rather cautious of RP relationships these days for this, and a few other, reasons.

K'hatos · **07-01-2015, 12:36 AM**

People who put into their character's bio that they are witty, and then aren't.Â Or even if they are, it's still poor form.Â Wit should be apparent.

"Don't let this conversation fool you, I'm actually very interesting."

Zhavi · **07-01-2015, 12:59 AM**

When someone repeatedly misses dialogue, actions, or expressions to the point of not responding to what my character is doing in their replies, even after a gentle nudge towards what I've posted. Eventually it feels like they don't really want to rp with you, just a reflection of themselves.

It's super super rare (and everyone misses something time to time), but when it happens I get twitchy.

Gaspard · **07-01-2015, 01:34 AM**

My biggest pet peeve in FFXIV RP has to be seeing people complain about Japanese influence / Anime realism | Physics.

When I started playing XIV, there where many people wholly embracing FFXIV as a sort of European, medieval gritty realism thing. Picking apart things towards it's 'medieval plausibility' and realism as such.Â

When you mentioned that 'yo, it's final fantasy. People deflect bullets with swords in this franchise / genre' You had people riled up within seconds, either brushing it off as weeabo madness inspired by animu and mango, and seemingly ignoring the very fact that all that they mention to hate / dislike about anime and manga is not just present in Final fantasy and XIV itself, but it's present in spades. From black mages 'charging their laz0rs' to Swordsman / Ninja's with unrealistic reflexes and abilities to jump from heights that'd be otherwise lethal = FFXIV is 'not' realistic, and shouldn't be measured in gritty European Medieval standards.

I mean, from the cutscenes, to the emotes, to the obscure Hentai-trope hints in this game; You're simply playing in the wrong medium if some Anime-esque moves and motions upset you.

..Ironically, on the flipside I also get irked when people take this notion of Anime physics and tropes being present and run with it way too far, playing Â the FFXIV version of magical girl lyrical nanoha or Dragon Ball Z.

Which leads me to another pet peeve ; The 'I'm paying for this game / I do what I want / If you don't like it don't play with me " Ideology. It's an inconsiderate, bullshit stance. Especially in Roleplay, there's nothing more important (In my opinion at least) then to be on the same page when it comes to lore / having the same 'vision' so to speak in the shared world you roleplay in. if what you play is in stark contrast to what lore / the story dictates so far, and you go 'pfft I pay for this I do what I want'.

Ofcourse you have to be flexible in an Open World / RP setting, but that doesn't mean I have to accept magical girl lyrical nanoha material or that I'm an ass if my peers and I shun you out of roleplay because you wont even entertain the notion that, infact, your playstyle is disrupting the RP atmosphere / established lore.

Max · **07-01-2015, 01:40 AM**

When the person I'm RPing with is only reacting to stuff and not contributing to the scene at all. It's boring as hell to be stuck leading things always.

You take the wheel too -- I ain't the only one here drivin'!

Misuzu · **07-01-2015, 01:45 AM**

I've never been a fan of book RP. When players tell me what their character is doing as an author, it annoys me. Let them speak and convey it, not the person playing.

I understand that people do it to try to be immersive, but "All it does is remind me that the player is there and in control" she said with an annoyed tone... <--ugh

Jaran · **07-01-2015, 07:25 AM**

(07-01-2015, 01:45 AM)Misuzu Wrote: I've never been a fan of book RP. When players tell me what their character is doing as an author, it annoys me. Let them speak and convey it, not the person playing.

I understand that people do it to try to be immersive, but "All it does is remind me that the player is there and in control" she said with an annoyed tone... <--ugh

I'm confused by what you mean by 'book RP'.Â
Do you mean a post made in the past tense as opposed to the present?

LadyRochester · **07-01-2015, 08:15 AM**

LOL, this Â isn't an attack to individuals, more to an RP style. RPing a healer can be annnoying, and one of my pet peeves is how some people allow your character to save them from the brink of death, while others are just like:

"WELL, your character might be a good conjurer, BUT only this OTHER character can heal mine because [insert bullshit excuse], but your character should still fuss over mine and try to heal them."

As in, they make your character absolutely useless, but they get offended if you don't want to involve yourself just to have your character fuss over them.

Magellan · **07-01-2015, 08:58 AM**

(06-30-2015, 07:48 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: .

~ When it is obvious, so so obvious, you are only roleplaying to be in a romance. Look, we all like Romance - My character is even in one. But if your walking into a group of characters and scoping out which one your character can fall in love with, it's almost insulting. Some people go so far as not even wanting to RP with you if your character is taken or not of the gender they prefer. You don't care about my character, you only care about their sexual orientation/relationship status. And I'm not talking about people who leave their characters open for romance later down the road. I'm talking the people who immediately crush on your character first meeting, make proclamations about love in a week, flirt with a bunch of people just to see which one sticks (Not flirty characters, different thing). You all know the type I'm talking about. It's frustrating, because friendships and familial ties can be just as important and some people take "I want to see where it goes in the story." as an insult. Please don't treat my character as a potential love interest, treat her as a person.

That's it.

This. I get pretty offended when people seem interested in Claire, find out she's in a committed, Â monogamous relationship, and are OOCly like 'oh uh... Claires neat. I gotta go.' *never hears from them again*

On the subject of IC romance, people who meet, fall in lovs, and get married within two weeks of knowing each other. What exactly have you built this 'marriage' on. ERP? It's one thing if your character is very impulsive. That'd make sense. But shouldn't characters typically show a little more restraint?

Finally (gosh all my pet peeves seem to be romance related, and yet I love romance rp) people who find a SO for their character, and then pretend like no one else exists. Even at events they only have eyes for this one person. God forbid you have a single character around them. You're no going to be able to get much conversation out of them as they are jamming their tongues down each others throats.

Sylentmana · **07-01-2015, 09:36 AM**

I dislike it when others try to force ERP on me, even after I've made it clear both IC and OOC that I'm not interested. Â At that point its more sexual harassment than RP.

Gegenji · **07-01-2015, 09:48 AM**

I've been thinking for a bit as to what qualifies as a pet peeve for me in RP. I like to think that I'm pretty open and try to roll with anything that gets thrown at me. I'm not that great at it yet, but I'm trying!

That said, I think my biggest issue is when someone mindlessly throws out something that is rather dramatic or life-changing with no real thought about it or the aftermath that comes from it. This comes from an April Fools day RP where Chachan had to deal with someone he cared about apparently having changed into a different race and being completely obvious to the change. He was, understandably, unsure how to handle and deal with the situation... but that wasn't the problematic part about it.

In the end, the "surprise twist" was that it was just some delusional person and the actual character had been away visiting family. So how did they get rid of the delusional character? Have them slip and crack their head open and die. Right in front of Chachan. I... was not very happy with having to deal with this character that had spent the entire RP believing they were someone else (and trying to convince him of the same) just... killed like that. And, in my mind, Chachan would not take such a result too well - I ultimately waved it off as a bad dream on his part, because that was not something I wanted to deal with... especially as the capper to what was supposed to be a more goofy, silly RP.

Other than that? I suppose people running events that have exact solutions to issues in their minds and have no flex on the matter. Like, if you don't do this exact thing in this exact manner it doesn't count. Especially when it gets to the point that it looks - to the participants - that they have no other option but to lose or retreat. I like to try and be flexible in my obstacle solutions and work with the participants... and I would just like to be extended the same courtesy.

I suppose you could just generalize both things into just disliking a lack of communication and cooperation between RP parties. Blush

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