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Faye · **07-23-2015, 04:22 PM**

This would be nice, but I've seen people suggest this before, and it never got any traction. Hopefully, it might catch on this time.

Trigonxv · **07-23-2015, 04:27 PM**

(07-23-2015, 04:16 PM)tortles Wrote: This sounds like a good idea if the symbol isn't being used, though I'm always bothered when a game mechanic is appropriated to mean something else, and not everyone is in on it.

I would suggest adding a note in your search info that says "Materia meld Icon means I'm in character", or something along those lines, so that people can confirm.

To be honest least for me the only symbols I see in use are busy and afk, the others ones aren't even used since pf takes care of party and meld requests.

Lilia Lia · **07-23-2015, 04:39 PM**

(07-23-2015, 04:22 PM)Faye Wrote: This would be nice, but I've seen people suggest this before, and it never got any traction. Hopefully, it might catch on this time.

Make it mandatory for all HoD members.Â Come on, Faye, abuse your power to change the culture.Â You know you want to.Â Thumbsup

Valtiere · **07-23-2015, 04:44 PM**

(07-23-2015, 04:16 PM)tortles Wrote: I would suggest adding a note in your search info that says "Materia meld Icon means I'm in character", or something along those lines, so that people can confirm.

I would do this but the space we have in the search info is so abysmally small there's no room left after putting in the [RP] tag and a small character note as hook to those who might use it.

I wish we could have a tiny bit more space in there.

Chris Ganale · **07-23-2015, 05:25 PM**

I've always had a very brief blurb about my characters in their search info, followed by the RP thing. So either I've been putting dumb blurbs or my characters are interesting to absolutely no one.

That said, if this is going to be a thing, I'll pass it along to my group. I've mentioned it to one set already.

Gone. · **07-23-2015, 08:01 PM**

(07-23-2015, 01:33 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

Been an advocate of this for a long time. I can't exactly read a character's mind, you know?

LiadansWhisper · **07-23-2015, 08:07 PM**

This is a neat idea! Smile

Saravahn · **07-23-2015, 08:21 PM**

(07-23-2015, 08:01 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:
(07-23-2015, 01:33 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

Been an advocate of this for a long time. I can't exactly read a character's mind, you know?

Technically your character isn't a mind reader either. The RP Walkups Welcome is just saying that ... well.. walkups are welcome. As in real life, you don't simply know who a stranger is the moment you walk up to them. You have to observe them to figure out what is going on.

The same holds true in RP. Watch what a character is doing, and approach after you have your hook. Find out the rest (read:the stuff you would have to be a mind reader to learn) through actual RP.

Gone. · **07-23-2015, 08:53 PM**

Well, no, but in a room with 2-3 dozen random IC roleplayers, I need more than 'walk-ups welcome' to pique my interest. I don't have the time or desire to waste time on characters who will have zero chemistry with mine; sure I'm not the only one, either.

Z'ythe Tia · **07-24-2015, 04:31 AM**

We need to ask, as a group consistently about our own symbol. Â On the live letter question forums, on the suggestion forums, on the Q&A's. Â This request needs traction.

Spethah · **07-24-2015, 04:56 AM**

I'm a forgetful person, I almost always forget to check search info because really I've got no need to do it outside of "oh man is this person an RPer?". I don't have a description for my character because I do say "Please /t" and in that time you can just ask what kind of character Septh is while you ask for possible RP. Not hard.

Being someone that struggles to get anyone to notice me in RP, regardless of what I do, having a little flag that says "Yo I'm a lonely fucker that's IC send help" would be nice though not in those words, that was just my situation talking.

Meena · **07-24-2015, 06:41 AM**

Well.. I can see this going terribly in some regards. it is an interesting idea, but I think non roleplayers will be very confused.

Blue · **07-24-2015, 07:36 AM**

(07-24-2015, 04:31 AM)Zythe Tia Wrote: We need to ask, as a group consistently about our own symbol. Â On the live letter question forums, on the suggestion forums, on the Q&A's. Â This request needs traction.

Regarding the official forums, I want to leave here the link to the thread I made a while ago. Don't be afraid to bump it, it has got only positive consesus so far.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...to-have%21

Also, for those of you who don't want to use the Official Forums because they're evil!, I recommend using this feature:

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Virella · **07-24-2015, 07:49 AM**

(07-23-2015, 01:33 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

Is it just me but I find it quite troublesome to conjure up with a char description in search info, especially if you sort of use your ingame model as what to represent your character.

I really did not get further then "Ishgardian Elezen" x_X

abnormalnomad · **07-24-2015, 08:59 AM**

It really would take a large scale effort to make this a 'thing'. For science, I put the tag on earlier this evening and did some 'fishing' RP in the Quicksand, roleplaying individually with the goal to attract and start roleplay, rather that be the one to initiate it, and suffice to say, it did basically nothing, and I had no more (and no less?) RP than I would have received otherwise. That's why I tend to approach whenever I'm in a mood to actually RP, rather than just 'wait' for it to fall in my lap. Aside from a few flavor emotes to let people know I'm IC, that is.

But, that being said, I definitely agree with the people above, though. If we really want a 'tag' to identify ourselves as roleplayers, we should ask the development team/the producer. I've been told they actually listen to their playerbase/community, which seems (sadly) surprising to me. Would be best to make this a proper 'thing', rather than some jury-rigged half measure.

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