(04-05-2015, 01:37 PM)Tiergan Wrote:It really doesn't matter where a character's personal timeline is at. It doesn't affect the overall story but if you're an rp'er you need to pay attention to world-current events and not just personal story/quest current events.(04-05-2015, 01:26 PM)Magellan Wrote: I do appreciate the amicable tone so far, and of course understand many of your points. However, as stated, some people haven't gotten through the storyline yet. And so... what is 'current events' to some, is not to others, even if their character legitimately should have experienced it due to their position/title.
I understand using the MSQ to enhance your personal rp amongst smaller groups, but am confused as to trying to apply it to the broader community based setting. I mean... we are all on different timelines within the MSQ. My character resides in Ul'dah a lot, and would be very thoroughly confused if someone was rping that the sky was falling, when it very clearly is not to her.
I don't remember whether you've had a great deal of experience RPing in MMOs or not. Â Generally this is always a problem that happens in MMOs that have any sort of basic overarching story.
For the most part, in many MMO RP communities, every time a new patch comes out, its contents are the 'update' for current events happening in the world. Â Otherwise the world would still be in its extremely stagnant 1.0 version or 2.0 relaunch version of itself for all of the RP community which would be very stale, would lock out new things like Doman roleplayers -- and would even prohibit everything in the upcoming expansion as all of the events in the MSQ lead up to what is coming next. Â (AKA, you wouldn't be able to RP an Au Ra because they are virtually non-existent in the MSQ save for one main NPC.)
Also, it would directly clash with small things SE does to the world itself to imply time has changed, such as Mor Dhona constantly being updated to show that as time progresses, it becomes a bigger and better place. Â
While this isn't necessarily fair for newer RPers or people who are much slower to complete the MSQ - it would prove to be more of a detriment than an asset over time. Â Especially as SE continues to change/update the world and most of the RP community will have completed the story quests over those who have not.
I have a Miqo that's sitting about level 30 and a Highlander at 50. They're obviously at different points in the story but I don't play them at being at different points in the overall timeline. I'm pretty casual and a super lazy leveler (Hell took me about a year to get Kal to 50 and only did just recently), but I still recognize the world doesn't revolve around my characters and where they are in the story. It's not like a normal single player game where it's where you are in the story affects the rest of the world.
Dhei isn't stuck in the past around events around the time you unlock Haukke manor. She's still part of the overall world and same with Kal and my being stuck at the just hitting 50 part. I'll get to the story eventually (after I get a new computer that can run the game), but the world isn't going to be static and overall events will continue to play out and I just need to read on what's going on and try to pay attention to the updates and other people and react to current events like everyone else.
Always surprises me how much rp'ers whine about spoilers when you'd think they'd want to know about world events that may affect their character, either by learning of it by word of mouth (which really is going to happen at some point) or by it affecting them directly. You can't really rp if you're worried about spoilers before you can get to them unless you elect to do the content before you rp. Not fair to others if someone icly talks about something that has happened and you get mad at them or deny it happening because you havn't done the content yourself. Really makes no sense.
Only time something like that is a problem is if someone's metagaming and talking about something their character couldn't really know, especially when it involves something that hasn't actually happened yet because it hasn't been added to the game and they only know about it because of developer announcements that it was coming.
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