Blade

[Server]: Balmung [Housing]: Althaea's Garden [Ward]: Lavender Beds, Ward 10 [Plot]: Plot 3 [Description]: Althaea's Garden was once known as a place for orphans and people who had lost their way. However, following an attack on the residence, the children who stayed in the orphanage have been moved to the Stillglade Fane due to safety concerns. Most staff has also vacated the estate.. some rumors indicate that it may be even 'haunted,' or that the elementals frown upon it. ((OOCly, contact Blade Belisaire in game or Avi#1036 on Discord for more information))

Howdy folks, Posting here to gauge some interest in a general PvP Enthusiast / Casual Player sort of linkshell. We now have dueling, we have Wolve's Den, we have Frontlines roulettes... I have personally been wanting to play some map other than shatter for Frontlines. Thought behind it is pretty simple. We invite a lot of people who just live PvP content. People suggest ideas. Matchmaking happens. Maybe we can even form three full premade teams of Adder, Maelstrom, and Flames, and try to rule the world. Maybe we make premade The Fold groups because we just want to listen to Torn from the Heavens. I don't know. Or maybe you'll tell me one of these things already exists in which case I'll have to ask for an invite. Please? I post that this is for casual interest because I don't like people who get too mean to others, but feel free to tell me I suck. I'll respond with some 4th grade insult most likely.

If I recall correctly (don't know if its been mentioned earlier, skimmed a bunch of the posts), Midlanders are somewhat considered different from the other races in the shape of their ears, which makes sense, because to the eyes of Elezen, Lalafell, and Miqo'te, Hyur are actually in the minority for ear size. People just often tend to forget about that, but I believe in the original 1.0 race description they pointed it out. Anyways, there is something to be said about being 'one among many,' and being a Midlander as being 'baseline.' Yeah, the lore surrounding them is pretty blank and they are just the 'dime a dozen' race, but that in and of itself is something unique. You don't really stick out. But maybe that works for your character, in order to slip by unnoticed, not draw attention to yourself. I can see some roleplayers approaching it from that angle. Personally, I've always had my main character be a Hume/Hyur in FFXI/FFXIV. It sort of requires you to go that extra mile to make them unique, but I also think it gives you a cool vantage point ICly to learn about the lore of the other races from player characters, without really having strict lore for your character to adhere to yourself. Midlander thus, for me, seems more free to do what you want with it.

Tales of Hydaelyn is still active.

I think you have it the other way around. In 1.0, if I recall correctly, there was a single coeurl in the game. I would say they are much more numerous now than they were in 1.0. People frequently mention their mounts ICly, and some just have them for fun. Really depends on your character, and if you want to come up with the story behind the mount or not.

Welcome to Hydaelyn Roleplayers.

Just to sort of echo this since I think it's a fair point. If we're talking in terms of someone new seeking a strong early immersion experience, Balmung may be a better pick as Legacy players are already situated at a comfortable spot. Yes, they are ahead, they have money, they have levels. That also means, though, that they have time and focusing on rushing to 50 isn't something that's going to be something they are concerned about. We'll be doing endgame content, but the duty finder makes it so that isn't quite such a time sync anymore, since so much of the original endgame activities had to do with prep and getting a group together. As a Legacy player, I have one (almost two) level 50 jobs. First things I'm doing are diving right back into the RP scene. I don't need to worry about levels right now, and can sorta relax a bit and focus more on things like RP. So from my point of view, I'm seeing it as an opportunity to take my time and do the fun things I really enjoy (RP).

Finally, an update! First of all, the biggest news: the site is up and running and ready for people to start applying who are interested. It's included as part of the shell's information, but here it is again. http://tales-of-hydaelyn.guildwork.com In addition, I changed/reworded the recruitment status. You can scroll up and read it there, otherwise I've included it quoted here: Looking forward to meeting you all! -Blade

Members on Behemoth more or less explicitly stated that they chose Behemoth in order to specifically be separate from the RPC because we are 'elitist' and 'trying to dictate' where the RP community goes, claiming that we've been trying to get them to leave Behemoth (when no such thing happened). So I figure we should just give them what they want and remain separate. Secondly, when you factor in the numbers and how the wildcard votes both here and on the beta forums would've factored in, you would've gotten... Gilgamesh: 48 (beta and RPC combined votes) + 13 RPC wildcard votes = 61 Behemoth: 32 (beta and RPC combined votes) + 1 beta forum wildcard vote = 33 Which gives Gilgamesh nearly double the support and per the site rules and what we said we would do with the site, wouldn't lead to the creation of a subforum. This isn't to say that Behemoth roleplayers have no place on the RPC--they absolutely can and could make a linkshell here and advertise for Behemoth (or Fate's Edge, the linkshell they have there), if they decide they would like to be a part of the RPC. This just seems unlikely to me given the feelings they've expressed about us.

Wooo! Congrats Girugarumeshu!

No, no, I wasn't saying that. I was saying the reason why they specified the servers as EU (despite being in Montreal) is to get EU players to congregate on those servers to keep players in similar time zones together. I'm not saying that lag isn't an issue. But it's the reason why they are designated certain servers as EU and others not.

Folks are familiar with it from the events and where people went to mess around. Thing is Niklaus, no one will ever agree on one secondary server. Sadly, you will see probably 3 RP communities sprout up by the time its said and done, unless SE does a sudden turn about and even then, you will still have a mess. Everyone's frustrated, tired of the subject, I know from my viewpoint I went to Gilgamesh to check it out. If Balmung gets locked or full, then it's where a bunch of us will go. In the end, 2 months left and we may see more information that affects everyone. Till then, I guess its Gilga, Behemoth, Balmung and whatever EU folks decide. EU really don't need pick a server of their own since all the non-Japan servers are (stupidly enough) physically in Montreal anyway. It would only split the community further and people would have the same lag. I'm not sure why they even have EU-recommended servers when there's only one data center outside of Japan (better than none, but still). It's more of a community/timezone thing than it is a lag thing. Kind of like "This one is here for EU, so you can all log on at the same time and play with other people on your side of the world."

In FFXI, we were pretty much the only roleplaying group on Siren that I ever heard of, so we did a lot of roleplaying the storyline and such doing these boss battles. Since it was really just us there, we were able to sort of... monopolize the storyline content. Given though the sheer size of the RPC, something like that can't really quite transfer over as well. I think the way that my shell will approach it in respect of the greater RPC will be that -within our linkshell,- we'll have a slightly different continuity compared to others, and either roleplay variants of ourselves who haven't done the missions and/or simply find IC reasons never to talk about said boss fights/missions/other content. The point really is to just be respectful to your fellow roleplayers, is what it gets down to, I think. You don't want to have your character running around spouting off how awesome he or she is because they and their band of heroes killed some in-game boss, because that's really not something anyone has the right to claim. Within smaller groups though, something like that might be possible among like-minded individuals. Sometimes its fun to RP hero. But when interfacing back with the rest of the community as a whole, you'd need to be respectful. It also just sets up trouble if you take it outside of your small group. Guy A says "I'm the hero Eorzea needs! I defeated the Imperials and have saved Eorzea!" and Guy B responds "Uh huh. I did that two months ago." Dur... So yeah, best to keep that stuff to yourself or your friends if you take that route haha. Pretty much exactly what I was getting at. ^^

We can't stop here. I mean, really. Anyone who has played an MMO before is walking into this with a completely unfair advantage. Nay, anyone who has played a Final Fantasy game before. How far is it to go up again someone who KNOWS what a Black Mage is? That we ride these ostriche-like yellow birds called chocobos. :chocobo: I don't know about you but I'd think twice before mounting one of those things if it were my first time. But I know better. Un-fair.

When you look at the RPC in the broadest sense and take it in as a whole, it may come off that there might not necessarily be a good place for you or your style. But I think it is important to keep in mind that not everyone within the RPC subscribes to the same sort of storytelling narrative and that is the reason why we have such a wide variety of linkshells here, built to cater different roleplayer needs and wants. Some groups for example may favor you only selecting a single class or job, others will be fine with you coming in with all jobs and won't give it a second glance. Some groups don't want you to use soul gems or dislike you wearing artifact armor, others are fine with it. My group in particular is planning on doing some things that other groups might not favor--that is, RPing out the missions and plotline. It means we need to be respectful when we roleplay with other members of the RPC not in our group by roleplaying as 'variants' of our characters or otherwise not bringing up our activities in missions (cus we really have no right to claim that it was us who defeated villain X, for example). But there are ways to do what you want and integrate in with the whole and make sure everyone is happy by finding a group that caters to your favored approach and style of roleplay, and altering your style depending on the company you are in. There's no right or wrong styles roleplay. What's most important is do what you find enjoyable.