(01-31-2013, 11:35 PM)Aysun Wrote: First, let me say I'm glad that you have decided to join us officially. : ) Welcome, it's always great to have new RPers and please feel free to ask any questions you might have.Thank you for the reply Aysun! I understand what you're saying completely. I think what I'll do is try to dedicate days to each character. I would make a personal rule to not switch to the other character for however long I play for that specific day. Then, I'll alternate days so I can spend a decent chunk with my Excalibur friends and another decent chunk with Balmung friends.  I'll try it this way for awhile, but if I notice it's not working I'll try and come up with a new plan.
Like you, my only MMO was XI before XIV came around. I made the jump over to XIV and RP was pretty much what kept me here until the game itself started to become more enjoyable.
I'm hoping you'll consider making your main leveled character your RP character, but can understand if you have connections/linkpearls on another server to keep in touch with. I only say this because I have seen people try to have a main character for leveling and an alt for RPing and it is difficult for them. RP isn't (unfortunately) something that is going on all the time, so when you log in on your RP character and don't see any RP to jump into, you may log off and go to your other character.. when five minutes later, some RP pops up! You will have missed it! What a lot of us do as these are our main characters is level/play the game in the "downtime" between RP (or RP in the downtime between raids!), or we speak on our RPLS's in-character to see if we can incite some during the quiet times. While events are scheduled often, there's nothing better than just bumping into someone and starting up some unplanned random RP!
Not to say you can't make it work just fine, (don't let that scenario discourage you from delving into an RP character) I just wanted to let you know how it works sometimes in game! : ) You might just end up leveling your RP-only character too, just because!
Welcome, again!
(01-31-2013, 11:49 PM)Deirdre Wrote: Welcome~ If you need help with anything just let us know!Thanks for the reply Deirdre! I do have many questions and would like to know should I post them here or is there another area I can/should bombard instead?
(01-31-2013, 11:51 PM)Kylin Wrote: Welcome! You chose the perfect time to signup since today was the launch of the new siteThanks for the reply Kylin! Yes I did. ^^ I was MrStyles on ZAM. I still have your ideas saved in a word document haha. Great to finally join after a couple years spying! ;D
I think I actually remember you from Zam. You wanted ideas for events back then, right?
(02-01-2013, 12:36 AM)Mihana Wrote: Welcome~! Something to also consider:Thank you for the reply Mihana! I thought of transferring Weff to the Balmung server(or w/e it will be called if they change server names), but again I made great friendships in Excalibur I wouldn't want to just up and leave. To me roleplaying feels like a different game almost(hope you know what I mean and I don't sound crazy haha.). Therefore, I wanted to make a character dedicated to staying IC as much as possible, but if nothing was going on I would take Aysun's advice and level my roleplaying character during the downtimes.Â
With the release of a Realm Reborn they will be allowing you to transfer servers (Only to existing ones.) so if you in fact want to migrate your current character over to the RP server you'll have perfect opportunity then! I don't believe the population is planning to change servers but until we find out what new name Balmung will be going by (I think they're changing the names to be monster-themed, aren't they?) it might be best to hold off on any plans for that.
There's plenty of linkshells to choose from and when the game relaunches there will be a public RP social linkshell for anyone to join. So if you want to wait on a RP linkshell and just want to socialize with other RPers you've got that option too. Anyhow, again welcome to the fray!
As for a RP LS, I think I'll wait and see the options since right now the linkshell tab is blank. Not sure what my choices are yet. When I do see my choices, I'll be looking for a LS that doesn't mind a person new to roleplaying, or maybe an entire new LS dedicated to new ARR roleplayers(considering established RP LSs may not want me until I get experienced at it, to avoid me from slowing them down.).