Lydia Lightfoot

I haven't heard that much bass since the time I went to a redneck novelty gift shop!

Hi Sui! Welcome to Balmung! My FC's Discord server is open to guests from other FCs, and all of our activities are open to them, too - we don't try to recruit our guests (mostly we figure if somebody decides they want to join the FC, they'll tell us), so don't worry, there's no pressure for that at all. You're welcome to have fun with us if you want! My Discord info's in my signature, so just toss me a friend request if you want to check us out. There's close to 50 players on the server at this point, most of whom are guests just like you'd be.

I'll be flailing my arms at you shortly!

Oh weird! It wasn't showing for me before, but now it is. Well, sometimes websites hiccup a little. :3

Hey there! You'll want to be sure to note your server in posts like this, so that potentially interested people will know if they even could RP with you or not. Since you mentioned Discord, it's helpful if you include your contact info there, too (you could do it in your signature, like I did in mine, and that way it's just there on every post you make). Hope that helps!

I've been cautioning everyone I know about their bunny fever... It's completely possible they will be a beast tribe and not a playable race. Please, for your own potential future disappointment, do not get on the hype train and daydream characters and get emotionally invested in them being a playable race until we know for sure that they will be. Don't Fallout 76 yourself. Please.

You know, you're right. They must've transferred before that. I had somebody in my FC check just now because I don't want to give out incorrect advice, and sure enough, transfers onto Balmung are locked again. Sorry about that! UGH, SE. UGH.

Haha! I thought maybe you meant "low key", but that "low comment" was some sort of even newer way that the kids were saying that, and I was managing to fall even further behind in that sort of thing! Aging sucks...

Hi Kazex! Can you elaborate on what you mean by "low comment" RP FC?

Incorrect! Transfers to Balmung are open. I don't have any available slots to check this myself, but I've been told this by several sources.

Hey there! Step 1: Chat with me on Discord (see my signature) Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit! The main issue, I think, is that the RPC is a very wonderful website, but due to a change in the website's underlying structure the old FC pages all got sent into retirement and FCs were told they'd need to make a new page under the site's "club" system. Most found this "club" system confusing (myself included) and opted not to rebuild their page. The RPC site has since rescinded that and is allowing the use of the older style FC pages, so some of them are coming back (mine will be along sometime this week). Secondary, a lot of players seem to be using Tumblr for their RP connections and FC stuff, even though Tumblr is literally a terrible tool for that compared to something like the RPC website. But, even though it's the wrong tool for that task, a lot of people are determined to try and put screws in using a hammer, if you catch my meaning. Anyway! My FC's Discord server is open to guests and so are all of our activities, so feel free to chat me up on Discord and even if you aren't interested in our FC itself, maybe you'll enjoy coming to RP with us occasionally or checking our one of our activities. We have stuff going on most nights of the week, in US evening timezones.

My advice is not to worry over trying to coordinate your life schedule around narrow "the server is open to making new characters" windows. Instead, for $10 you can transfer up to an entire server load of 8 characters at once, from any server on a given datacenter to any other server on that datacenter. There's a few basic requirements for transfer, which I don't remember precisely - but if you go to the character transfer section on Mog Station it'll tell you. Anyway, that'd be what I'd do. Make characters, transfer them in a batch (since it's the same flat-fee whether you do one character or 8 characters, you may as well do 8, even if you only even RP one of them you can use the other ones for storage mules or something). There's punch and pie on Balmung, also.

This is just my opinion from my own observations over a very long time roleplaying: We live in a society which even today is... at best largely heteronormative even if open to other ideas, and, at worst homophobic and discriminatory. People roleplay in order to experience a fantasy escape from reality, and so it makes sense to me that there would be a very high proportion of characters who would be non-hetero in an environment where that's mostly not something where they're going to have to deal with a lot of social anger. Many of them likely write characters who represent what they wish they could explore in real life, such as being able to explore a neat old tomb, or travel to a faraway land, or be somebody tough and strong who doesn't have to take crap from bullies, and so the same logic works for topics of sexuality, too. A lot of people have to live in repression even in 2018 or deal with negative consequences, so... they write as a way to explore. Maybe. Again, it's just my thoughts on it. That said, there are hetero (and also non-hetero whose interests include women) out there. Both of my current characters are hetero and, yeah, finding compatible characters for either of them hasn't been a suffocating mob of froth-mouthed interested persons, but, nor would I say it's really a chore to have met people on them, either. I guess all I can advise is to be patient and to put your character into as many open event activities as possible. I'm not sure how much of that occurs on your server, though. I really couldn't say.

I'd had an interesting idea about how they could deal with the issue of multiple plots per account, and people who are basically inactive but pop on long enough to keep their house secure even though they aren't even actually playing the game anymore - property taxes. Each account generates 1 tax token per subscribed month. If you don't spend a token, you can accumulate them. If you prepay for game time, you won't pre-accumulate, but you'll get your new one at the start of each new prepaid sub month as it turns over from the last month. Tax due on an apartment or small house is 1 token per month. A medium is 3, and a large is 5. This tax is due regardless of whether the house is owned personally or it's owned by an FC. The tax can be paid only by a tenant of an apartment or personal house or by a member of the FC (accordingly, the potential tenants would change from 0 for apartments and 3 for any personal house, to 2 for apartments, and 4/6/8 for personal houses, depending on size), and, to prevent a black market of buying/selling tax tokens, the individual must have been a tenant or FC member for 30 days before they become eligible to pay tax on the property. You'd be able to prepay tax for up to 3 months. This would make it possible for an individual account to own multiple properties only if they had friends as tenants who would be able to assist with paying the taxes. It would also make it somewhat more challenging for an individual to keep a medium or large house unless, again, they had friends as tenants who wanted to help with the upkeep.

New, awesome Balmung friends? Maybe? I've been trying to collect more friends lately, so if either of you (Lihli and Vincent) want to meet a bunch, flail at me on Discord! Liriell's one of them (and super great!). :3

Hi Tilala! I'm not sure whether my character Lydia would be hiring someone for her bistro or not - mostly because I don't really use the bistro for event hosting, since there's a hundred tavern/restaurant type events out there every week, haha. I'd worry that if that was the hook for a new friendship or employment opportunity, and your hope was to spend a lot of time roleplaying relevant to that, you might be a little disappointed. Mostly my friends and I do a lot of adventure-type activities as well as a bit of general slice-of-life, so if you think Tilala could use some general friends (and maybe a bit of exposure to the lives of daring and dashing do-gooders), toss me a hello on Discord!

Hey there Momoka! I know you're working on finishing the post, but I wanted to say hi anyway. My characters are always looking for more friends, and I have a Discord server with a chunk of other such friends who are too. Toss me a hello on Discord if you'd like to get in touch and see how many new contacts you can rustle up!

Discord sent! :3

I doubt they'll do Viera. For every 10 players, there's 1 out there who's frothing at the mouth wanting them to be a playable race, 1 who actively thinks they were a terrible and sexist concept in their original form and is actively rallying against them being a playable race, and 8 who are pretty much indifferent about Viera altogether. Doesn't make any business sense to spend time preparing a race that will have such limited fanfare. They'd probably have more hype if they released Bangaa, though they'd have a lot of equipment modeling issues to deal with (on the other hand, Viera would require them to redesign every kind of boot, so...). The most likely thing is that Ivalice is never going to be a playable zone/region and we're not ever going to get a race from there as a playable race, and that the entire concept of a FF14 Ivalice is fanservice which will begin and end with the Stormblood alliance raid story arc.

Haya, Faya! Okay, that was a lame little joke to open with, but, in my defense, lame jokes are like... 90% of my jokes. It's sort of my thing. Has your sheltered experience been intentional (as in, you've made a point to keep your RP constrained to just a few good friends) or have you just not had much luck in meeting new contacts? I've noticed it can sometimes be a little challenging for people to connect. Since making my new character Marsazio I've met a bunch of players who were solid writers, but people are so busy with existing RP that even if they have good intentions about making a new friend, sometimes they just end up not really having time for it. On the other hand, I've also met quite a few great new friends just in the past few weeks. If you'd like to meet them too, flail at me on Discord and I can introduce you! Many were here on the RPC looking for new friends just like you (and me) are doing.

That's pretty awesome that you made your very own custom Discord bot! Sounds like you like a lot of focus on action-packed scenes if you've gone to that effort - or maybe you just like a bit of programming. Impressive, to say the least. I doubt I could make something like that. Toss me a friend invite on Discord if you want to meet me and some of my other friends - I've been hoping to meet some active new faces lately since a lot of my contacts I'd made during 2017 trickled away to other games and RL (as happens for people sometimes).

Feel free to snag me on Discord if either of you want to! I'm always on the lookout for new friends, and so are the friends I already have. Chat me up and we can see about getting you both introduced to some people.

Hello! I'm not sure if there's many who roleplay on that server, though I have heard there's small groups on just about every server. Your best bet might be to transfer to Mateus if you can afford it. If you do, remember that the transfer fee is for up to 8 characters at once, so if you think you might ever want more than one you may as well make them in advance and send them over as a batch.

Hey there! There's definitely a lot of RP going on around Balmung, don't worry. A lot of the FCs get busy enough that they just struggle to find the time to keep an updated RPC listing. In my case, my FC's a fairly new reincarnation, and the old one that's now gone did have a page here, whereas the new one's due to get a page set up this weekend. Anyway! I have friends from various FCs aside from my own, on my Discord server. Shoot me a message there if you'd like to have a guest invite to the server so you can socialize with us and make some friends, and maybe you'll find an FC fit (doesn't have to be mine - we're happy to have guests from other FCs as long as they seem to want to interact with us and RP together and such).

Hiya Draco! I've seen a number of others who've posted from Mateus looking for connections - have you tried reaching out to them? I'm on Balmung so I can't speak as to the state of things over there from personal experience, but I've heard RP's going strong on Mateus, so I'm sure there's some good opportunities!