Maybe if people could suggest some nice places that could serve as a social replacement, such as:
Black Shroud:
-Buscarron's Place
-Hyrstmill
-Fallgourd Float
Thanalan:
-The Coffin & Coffer
-Miner's Guild Bar
-Vesper Bay
-Crescent Cove
La Noscea:
-The Bismarck
-The Aftcastle Plaza
-Aleport Bar/Restaurant
-Wineport Bar/Restaurant
...and occasionally make a friendly PSA through yell while inside the Quicksand along the lines of:
Mind you, it would be wise to first gather a respectable number of volunteers to actually participate in visiting such places first so that it would actually appeal to other players, in addition to starting small with only two areas to begin with perhaps. I'd highly recommend Fallgourd since it's such a large area in general and the main building is rather nice. It could pass as a small bar/food place so long as no lore runs against such thinking.
PSAs may seem an unsavoury approach but they're no different from FC recruitment notices and with Yell the radius would be much less intrusive.
My two cents anyways.
Edit:
I have skimmed through the topic and the examples used were just whatever came to mind. Apologies if they've already been mentioned!
Edit 2:
I've just checked a number of these places and unfortunately some aren't quite as how I remembered. Many are quite small, lacking in indoor seats and have the limited space available taken up by numerous NPCs which certainly take away from the hope of making them any sort of secondary "large" RP hub as opposed to anything worth considering for a smaller, more private part.
Some, like Crescent Cove, don't actually have a bar as I had initially thought, but rather a a private home as it would seem. It'd be more suited as a place for fishermen or perhaps the odd rogue/unsavoury group to hang around since it's a bit out of the way.
In the case of Fallgourd Float, that also lacks a lot more in seats than I would have cared for and does not look at all like a place one might stop for food or drink judging my all of the bookshelves and such seen about. As a result, as nice as the place is, I can't see the allure it might have to the average RP'er in terms of "Why am I even here?".
With that being said, I'd change my recommendation to Buscarron's. It's a little more private and doesn't offer many free seats but it's a cosy place and there's plenty of room both out front and out back overlooking the stream. Could have a bunch of nice scenes there and it'd be cool to see numerous groups hanging around. Keep in mind, however, that you'll have the occasional drunkard fate spawning every so often just outside so the music/sound effects might be disruptive.
Black Shroud:
-Buscarron's Place
-Hyrstmill
-Fallgourd Float
Thanalan:
-The Coffin & Coffer
-Miner's Guild Bar
-Vesper Bay
-Crescent Cove
La Noscea:
-The Bismarck
-The Aftcastle Plaza
-Aleport Bar/Restaurant
-Wineport Bar/Restaurant
...and occasionally make a friendly PSA through yell while inside the Quicksand along the lines of:
Quote:"In the interests of expanding the reach of public RP to new areas, a number of people are taking the initiative to frequent areas such as:
{List of Areas}
...and we would humbly request that anyone interested in public RP assist with the creation of new hubs outside of the Quicksand to help promote a further interest of both variety and expansion."
Mind you, it would be wise to first gather a respectable number of volunteers to actually participate in visiting such places first so that it would actually appeal to other players, in addition to starting small with only two areas to begin with perhaps. I'd highly recommend Fallgourd since it's such a large area in general and the main building is rather nice. It could pass as a small bar/food place so long as no lore runs against such thinking.
PSAs may seem an unsavoury approach but they're no different from FC recruitment notices and with Yell the radius would be much less intrusive.
My two cents anyways.
Edit:
I have skimmed through the topic and the examples used were just whatever came to mind. Apologies if they've already been mentioned!
Edit 2:
I've just checked a number of these places and unfortunately some aren't quite as how I remembered. Many are quite small, lacking in indoor seats and have the limited space available taken up by numerous NPCs which certainly take away from the hope of making them any sort of secondary "large" RP hub as opposed to anything worth considering for a smaller, more private part.
Some, like Crescent Cove, don't actually have a bar as I had initially thought, but rather a a private home as it would seem. It'd be more suited as a place for fishermen or perhaps the odd rogue/unsavoury group to hang around since it's a bit out of the way.
In the case of Fallgourd Float, that also lacks a lot more in seats than I would have cared for and does not look at all like a place one might stop for food or drink judging my all of the bookshelves and such seen about. As a result, as nice as the place is, I can't see the allure it might have to the average RP'er in terms of "Why am I even here?".
With that being said, I'd change my recommendation to Buscarron's. It's a little more private and doesn't offer many free seats but it's a cosy place and there's plenty of room both out front and out back overlooking the stream. Could have a bunch of nice scenes there and it'd be cool to see numerous groups hanging around. Keep in mind, however, that you'll have the occasional drunkard fate spawning every so often just outside so the music/sound effects might be disruptive.
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Characters: Andre Winter (Hy'ur) / K'nahli Yohko (Miqo'te)
