Asyria

If they implement it, I hope they make it optional. I for one, don't like looping music all that muych, it gets repetitive.

Well, it's not teaching on purpose in most cases, I think... more like unintentionally teaching by example. Still sucks when what's bing taught is intolerance, though. But yeah my friend is not as bad as he used to be. ^^

Active combat... hmm... personally, I liked TERA's fighting but hated everything else about it. On the other hand, I hated Age of Conan's combat system. So for me it's not about how active it is so much as how well I can handle it. AoC's combo system and directional parries was just over-the-top silly, imho. You'd do a combo, it made you automatically step forward, you ended PAST your target and whoosh! Finishing move strikes the air! At the other end of the spectrum, LOTRO seemed awfully boring combat-wise. It wasn't particularly slow, but definitely not fast... but more importantly, it lacked ANY oomph whatsoever. I want to hit mobs with a gint hammer and feel the impact in my bones! O_O Okay so I'm exagerating a bit, but you know what I mean, right? When the enemy recoils from the blow and there's a satisfying sound of impact? That's what matter to me in a MMO. As a RPer, it helps me immerse myself into the world my character is evolving in. TL;DR: I don't care much if the fighting is twitchy or not, as long as works smoothly. It's the look and feel that matters.

Funny thing I just realized... LGBT topics have barely ever been brought up in my household when I was growing up. A very good friend of mine turned out to be rather homophobic but by the time it came up I was 13 already, so I had time to make up my own mind about these things, without any real outside influence. The result is I think we all should live and let live. I later learned that the above-mentionned very good friend's mom was homophobic and racist and a huge influence on him growing up. LGBT-friendlyness will grow through generations, like everything else, I guess. Hopefully sooner than later!

I believe I've seen some LS's or FC's on this very site that claim desire for both RP and end-game progression. Perhaps they'd be interested in this? My long experience however has been that people who are interested in RP will either just try it or contact a RPer themselves. Many who roll on RP servers "for the atmosphere" enjoy the added immersive chatter of RPers around them (it's like having more NPC's spouting lines, except those lines form an actual conversation, I guess) but won't RP themselves. I also believe the RPC is already very open to those wanting to learn as it is. Anyways, I think this is a good idea on paper (or on forum), but I'm not too sure how well it would work out, to be honest.

My main is a Keeper! All I really know about them is they live mostly in Gridania. Mine's parents moved out to Ul'dah for mercantile reasons (capitalism, ho!) so I ended up not knowing much about Keeper lore, having little need for it. Which was the point at the time. Kinda created this character in 1.0 beta and there wasn't THAT much lore around then, I think. Or maybe I was just not very good at finding it. ^^;

I don't think I'm gonna join this but I wanted to say I think this FC and the lalafel Tyrion are both great ideas. ^^

The horse represents the topic at hand. The guy represents people posting here. And to those blaming each other: you're only making yourselves look bad by pointing fingers. Especially to those being pointed. As a Legacy player who intends to roll on Gilgamesh as well, I almost feel like I should stick to Balmung only in fear of being ostracized by Gilgameshians for my divided "loyalties". We're not at war, FFS. Thankfully, I know the venomous minority is just that. On another note... To be fair, the only reason it's that way is that we Legacy players already have all our Legacy characters on Balmung and we lose our Legacy-ness if we roll elsewhere. Don't be mistaken, we've been through all that same drama server war back when we voted prior to 1.0 launch!

How I feel is that this is a horrible misconception and the real main issue is that many non roleplayers believe it's true. Of course it's true for some people, but I believe it's actually a minority or RPers. Most people I've RPed with over the years have been endgame connoisseurs or at least fast learners who ended up raiding or or pvping or at least running dungeons and teacher non-RPers a thing or too. I've been in a couple RP guilds who ere among the top progression guilds of their servers, too. YMMV, I guess.

Hatur.. Hastur... that name rings a bell but I can't recall from where! Anyways, welcome in! If you like Hellsing, you'll notice our resident manga-alucard avatar guy. I know I smile for no reason whenever I see his posts, just because of the pic.

I've used Maptool (linked above with RPTools) and roll20.net myself, though Im doing more in-person tabletop these days so I put the whole online tabletop thing aside for the most part. Except I still play some Vassal for those tabletop miniature games like Warmachine.

I understand EXACTLY how you feel, having left the community as well, back in 1.0 for the exact same reasons. Hopefully you come back when things have quieted down and/or you feel better aboiut it! It's not the post or rep count that matters, abd every RPC member is valued, I think. We're all in this together until we choose to leave, and we can always come back. Or like Barret would say, "there ain't no getting offa this train we're on!"

Best of luck to you! Unfortunately, I'm way to poor to donate anything.. heck if I was anywhere else than Canada I'd need a fundraiser too for my health. ^^;

Friendly-neighborhood poutine-eating scary French Canadian from Montreal, Quebec reporting.

Oh I agree that they're all rare! What I'm saying is even if they're common among player characters, that doesn't make them common in the game world, because player characters are a minority in the "reality" of Eorzea to bgin with (which cannot be realistically represented in a video game) and player characters have a tendency ,as a minority, to represent the rarest inhabitants of the game world. It's like how the Star Wars books, movies, comics, games and cartoons (aside from the episode 4-5-6 movies) seem to have a lot of jedis in them considering they're supposed to be rare... but that's only because the stories revolve around them as opposed to the billions of non-jedi people on each planet.

I thought that is how all of us Roegadyn characters came up with our names lol. The lore guys said their names were German influenced so it could be why it looks insane. You can go Sea Wolf with a Hellsguard name if you wanted to, but I think your name is perfectly fine. The Hellsguard still basically name themselves the same way as the Sea Wolves, but just say it in a different tongue because they are usually mercenaries and such and have to deal with different races more often. You can have a nickname as some people have said or you can just have people call you Steel or whatever. I thought about having people call my character, Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn, just Thunder, but then realized Denn was not that bad. And Asyria, Agata's last name is insane lmao. I love it. I don't even know how to begin going about to pronounce that one. It's easy! Bliss Tall Win! (ironically that fits her, too). Though when I ran around with her in phase 3, I was asked if I facerolled her name on the keyboard... T_T Blyss is blossom, stahl is steel is wyn is daughter... meaning her mom's name was Steel Blossom, and Agata is Amber. So yes, you're absolutely right about Hellsguard names being exactly like Sea Wolf names except in "English" If agata was Hellsguard, she'd be called Amber Steelblossom, I guess. But yeah I guess you could just keep the name as it is and let people give you the nicknames they want. "Hail, friend! I am Ostyrsthal Fyrentsyn. "Hello, ostari... ostrich, err.. no... Hey, Ost! Nice to meetcha!"

The real jerk of the situation - you hit the nail right on the head there. Naming conventions came only recently all things considered so a lot of people have characters they're porting without a history/culture that they realistically couldn't have had in the first place which people are going to question ICly why they don't. :dazed: Timey wimey weirdness, isn't it? We did have naming conventions back then. I know Z's and a few other letters were often used for Keeper names (hence my own catgirl Azyria Zyada), I know Seekers had apostrophes in their names and all Miqo'te had short ones... I know Elezen sound French... I know Lalafel names were pretty established as they are now... It's just that now we've got this all more detailed and more people know about it. So it's not new it's more.. more easily available and more detailed. That said naming conventions are a guide, not a restriction.

If you guys played Recettear, that's pretty much how I see dungeon runs! Except the merchant swaps to a Hand of War/Magic class to help rather than just hang back and loot.

Welp, all I know is my old security key thing is still working fine. ^^

There would be a split if those who voted yes decide to go over Bahamut anyway. But I didn't use the right words to express myself... What I should have said is... If this kinda of angsty anti-legacy OR run-from-reddit OR oh-noes-trolls-claimed-the-server doesn't stop, I swear I'll go crazy. (note the OR's, I'm not saying I've seen all three of those here) Also if any of the LS of FC I pledge membership with are planning on changing server, I'm out. But yeah all of those comments sucked. I would add however that all those threads sucked.

Stop with the finger-pointing posts, guys. (notice I'm not pointing fingers here... but if anyone reading this ffeels pointed anyway, ask yourself why). It's like poison spreading...

Hating thieves in-game is perfectly fine if it's also In Character. I fondly remember a certain NPC Henchmen Elven cleric from Neverwinter Night who really REALLY hated thieves...

I have to admit that while I agree with the spirit of Mtoto's post, I have some disagreements with point 2 and 3. As far as point 2 goes, I would say that the limitations of the engine should not be seen purely as OOC mechanics. I believe theya re in place to set the normal minimum and maximum size physically possible in each species. Therefore a very tall character is best portrayed by pushind that slider all the way up and simply going with that. Pretend afterwards that you're taller than another character who also chose maximum height can cause conflict. I think the examples given for point 3 are so-so... Garlean turncoats or spies is something I'd frankly not touch, but I respect people's choices to RP them. Everything else (aside from knowing a lot about magitech, maybe?) is not limited at all, as the game allows us to play any of those as part of its mechanics. Well, except Ala Migho refugees, which doesn't require anything special. I will point out again however, that no matter how many players there are, the PC's are the minority in the world. We simply don't have computers powerful enough to account for how big Eorzea should be and how many people would live there, so we're limited with what is considered a reasonable amount of NPC's making it look like there's more advemturers than anything else.. which makes no sense at all. Given that, Any kind of character that should be rare but is seen a lot in the player population can still be considered rare in the "reality" of Eorzea. It's part of our "job" as RPers to imagine those things. Now half-breeds... well, they're not rare. They're pretty much unheard of. Only thing they have going is some dev said it's possible. And there's this Miqo'te who may or may not be one. It's like when Drizzt was the one and only nice drow and some time later, you had Good-aligned rows running all over the place, dancing naked under the moon and saving children from burning orphanages. That's when I run away from the Forgotten Realms. In closing, the problem with Half-Breeds, or anything that challenges basic character creation options, is that it challenges other players' perceptions of the world we all share. When RPing in a MMORPG, it's important that we all share the same view of the world, or we may encounter or cause conflicts of immersion. That's why most RPers will frown at things that deviate too much from lore, sometimes to the point of becoming "lore nazis". That said, I'm not saying Half-Breeds are wrong. As I said before, they're risky, but it can be done, especially since we have official word about the possibility of their existence. I wonder however if the character would be just fine without being a half-breed? Why this need to diverge from the option we're given?

Keep the naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame! Juniper is a cool name, I think. I don't know why, but I like it. And hey, maybe it's not her given name, just a name she took for herself going adventuring, or maybe people started calling her Juniper for some reason and stuck and se later added a last name to match... there could be any reason!

Omg, what an awesome little welcome video! We didn't have that back in my days. Anyways! So yeah as far as forum RP goes, anything that doesn't say (Closed) or anything that does say (Open) should be good. In doubt, PM the one who started the thread. If you're really not sure about what to do or anything, or if you just figure you could use a more personal bit of help, get yourself a mentor! Even old timers like myself got one (I'm pretty experienced, but I distanced myself from big RP communities a few years ago and I feel rusty ^^; ) Also, cookies, cakes, pies... we have them all!