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RE: Been feeling the Balmung Bluesâ„¢ lately. - Zhavi - 10-18-2017
(10-18-2017, 02:14 PM)Therion The Witch Wrote: Well, I wasn't really replying to you since I didn't think you were rude but let me rephrase. I don't really have an interest in looking into every house in every ward on the server to find that closed role-play I know exists. I mean, in character-ly that also just sounds rude. I apologize if I didn't get what you meant but that is what I mostly see lately. Old Faces are around yes, but they are reclusive and stick to their groups. Which I have no issue with, that is what they like.
I know, I just disagreed with the part I quoted, so I replied.
If you are the type of person who does not like to oocly talk to people when you are looking for rp, and are finding that you are not seeing as many rpers in the areas you haunt looking for rp -- but are in Mateus -- then you're right, that maybe Mateus is a better server to suit your needs right now in this moment. That's okay. Make a character there, keep your character on Balmung for the moment.
But in my own experience, there are still oodles of people on Balmung who enjoy open world rp but do not necessarily have a character or rp partner or group to do it with. I say that because over the years I have consistently found such people, even up to about a month or two ago before ooc time intensive stuff had me severely limiting my rp to just one or two folks. I rp with one of them out in the world. Before that I'd contact randoms oocly and drag them out into the wild. All of them were enthusiastic or very open and willing to go with me.
But yeah, it does require contacting and meeting people oocly. If that is not your jam, then my next suggestion would be to change the times you go out looking, try different places. The problem is that Eorzea is big enough that it's easy to miss people.
But the bottom line is -- if you don't like oocly talking to people and your preferred ic areas/times are active on Mateus, and you find yourself looking that way longingly, it's okay if you would rather rp there. There is nothing wrong with that. You know?
RE: Been feeling the Balmung Bluesâ„¢ lately. - Faye - 10-18-2017
I dunno, I've been on Balmung since 2.0 launched, I think I've been pretty involved in the RP community and think I've done well to at least familiarize myself with most active role-players. I'm still meeting new people, and getting to know those I've only ran into once or twice before. I have to look harder to find them, granted, but it's nice having some time to get to know the people already here without new people pouring in.
RP happening in housing areas doesn't mean you need to run through every ward and butt into random people's private RP. It just means there's more RP happening than you may think, and some of it you can get involved in. Watch the calendar for events, join an FC or a LS that uses a house.
Unfortunately, you... can't always find RP without some OOC communication or effort. Things just don't always happen organically or 100% IC and that has nothing to do with whether the people in the community are new or old. You have to try if you expect results, sadly things don't often just fall into your lap in RP (though it is great when they do). You may not like doing it, but which you do dislike more--putting in some effort OOC, or being dissatisfied with the quantity/quality of the RP you've been having?