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Hmmm, I must have came during a more barbaric time. Since everyone seem to have had drama with one another, and it would usually escalate to global chat and such. It was pretty bad when I came, but there was at least some kind of RPing... It's only gotten even worse now. --------------------------- I too hope to make myself at home here. And thank you for the warm welcome.

Hmm, how did you usually get RPs started back when you first started? ------------------ Oh no, it helped a lot, thank you for taking your time for answering them!

I also hope to be around often, so be gentle. ------------------------- Hmm, it's actually refreshing to know that there are more people that came from Neopets originally. It was honestly one of the happier years of my rather young life. Tera was fun also, Celestial Hills was a beautiful community, but as I came on recently, the server as whole has gone down in quality drastically. I feel like most of the people left and joined XIV personally. And thank you for the warm welcome.

Until this day I don't know the actual definite meaning of meta game, I just know how to use it correctly, kind of. The main point of this topic? To actually collect data and remove variables. But the prompt for this topic is something along the lines of - Roleplaying Introduction, the make or break of an RP. This goes back to my introduction topic, about First Impressions and how they affect the difference between remaining strangers or blossoming into true friendship. With that said, How do you approach a new potential partner? As we progress into a more advance society in real life, people determine how we live through paperwork and interviews. Let it be for Jobs, Medical Needs, Social Work, or anything at this point. With that said, are we not just merely applying for a role for the interested partner? Usually it's nowhere near this extreme, for this is looking at it completely black and white, which is wrong in most sense, but for this sake we'll go along with it, and just blend our own creative colors in. But let's put it into perspectives we understand. Say you are your gender, and you wish to RP with another gender of your interest, as you examine them, they have some form of interest in RPing, so that's the Green Light. But as you approach, how would you do so? This brings us to our next question. The interest and wants of the partner? XIV as a game has blessed us with a rather handful of Races, and sub clans, with genders too! So we're exposed to quite a lot of variables, but what I'm trying to achieve in this to help eliminate as many variables as we can when we go try to introduce ourselves. And with each race, we usually, but not limited to RPing a personality type usually. A small example; Lalas are usually very cute. Roes are usually very confident and strong. Miqo'te are usually very Miqo'te. The list goes on, I'm sure... This is where we get a bit more, complicated, and to be frank, be rather frank about it. This is where I would ask everyone to contribute their thoughts and ideas, I, myself, have never actually RP'd in XIV, but I'm not a stranger to the RPing scene. So I have quite a lot of trouble contributing to this study. But the study will actually be a long list of things at the ending, that I'll probably submit to my own spreadsheet. The main focus of this specific section was, what are you tactics and approach towards your potential RP partner. Attention caught, how to keep Interest? This is where it's still hard, you have caught your partner's attention, but that was only the first two post at most, now you have to somehow maintain their interest and keep them interested. This tactic is just as important as pulling someone's attention. There are many ways of grabbing someone's interest, but to MAINTAIN their interest is the hardest thing, again, this is where I would need your input towards this. ----------------------------------------------------------- The Actual Study There will be a basic format, but that's only the beginning more or less, I also care quite a lot about your opinion and tactics, if you're willing to share your technique, I will accept them humbly. Your Race: Gender: (If you feel like sharing) Preferred RP Partner Race: How would you approach them?: For study sake, how would you approach these races?: Midlander: Highlander: Lala: Roes: Au'ra: Elezen: Miqo'te: ^It would also help if you put in their gender also, thank you. ^ ------------------------------------ Tl;dr - Pls halp.

Ah, that's good to know, I actually went back on neopet about a year back cause this one friend told me to. There wasn't much there left, and it was kinda sad and barren. I just played the mini games. And thank you, I'll try to slowly stalk my way into it. ------------------------ I mean, back then they were our life and childhood, so of course they can't be bad. Now a day, it might not be the best. Neopets has been left in the shadow, and gaia just degenerated into a kind of tumor... My roleplays on Neopets were usually always anime based... ----------------------------- Did not come up with title 1/10 will not RP with. Welcome to the RPC anyhow. Darn. ----------------------------------- Hello!

Mostly people can come up with something after twenty minutes, but I just ended up staring at the title thinking of a witty headliner. Mainly because we are humans are tricked into believing that first impressions make or break any bridge between people. But at this point, it's just psychological rambling, and there's no point in dragging it out more or less. --MMORPG background-- To start off, my first MMO might have been when I was a mere child, it was Everquest. I was so confused, my little brain couldn't comprehend or remember any of the events that actually occurred. Progressing a few years or less, I was later introduced to World of Warcraft, that was the first time I could remember the events of playing MMOs. This is where things get complicated because I can't remember too much, somehow I ended up just playing WoW most of the time. Which was funny, even though it was my main MMO, I never actually RP'd on it. One step leads to another then I ended up on XIV. Oh yeah, I played Tera for a bit also. Tl;dr Played Eq, played a lot of WoW, played XIV as of now. --RP experience-- Oh, I'm already face palming thinking about it, I started off with Neopets roleplaying boards. I recalled rapidly becoming a better Roleplayer from using basic asterisk to actually becoming semi-literate in the course of a few months. Mainly cause everyone was really mean to me, until I actually got good. I then moved on from Neoets, and ended up on, oh god here it comes, Gaiaonline... I rp'd on there quite a lot too, probably where I learned the most about Roleplaying and evolved fully to be a more literate Roleplayer, and bled out most of the angst edgy phase... I left Gaiaonline, thank god, and moved on to focusing more on MMORPGs, but I never actually roleplayed in most of them. The only one I actually recalled roleplaying a lot in was Teraonline, that game for some reason had a very fun and active roleplaying community, HAD. Now I'm on XIV, and I haven't had an RP for the past two years... Tl;dr Neopets, Gaiaonline, Tera, now we're on XIV. --Character ideas/info-- My current character as of right now, and hopefully for awhile is my Elezen. Not much of an example but my avatar is him, but that's just the physical information. There's something strange about him, almost as if he is cursed by something, an aura usually follows him around where he just looks Sad. Anyone who sees him would feel either repelled by him, or cautious approaching him. Does he even have a past, or is he just some kind of entity that casually walks around the Quicksand looking like he was always sulking. (Obviously there are more, but why ruin the fun by just explaining everything?) Tl;dr: A really Sad Elezen. --How did you learn about the coalition?-- I heard about it from an internet forums. --What kind of a role-player are you aiming to be? Light, medium, or heavy?-- Medium,I usually enjoy a prior warning before beginning an RP, and a warning of when we're stopping. I also enjoy OOC talks too, we learn more about each. --Anything from real life you're comfortable with sharing? (Work, school, hobbies, etc)-- I'm not comfortable.