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Caspar · **07-09-2015, 02:21 AM**

(07-08-2015, 07:44 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:
(07-08-2015, 07:21 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: My couple thoughts.

Having "Walkup OK/Welcome/whatever" is still very much a one-way thought. It means you are fine with someone coming up to you! ....but nowhere does it imply that you would do the same to someone else.

And I think that's part of the issue with it. We've got too many people who would like to be approached instead of approaching others. I'm guilty of it. I think I'm bothering people 4/5 times I think of asking for RP. It happens outside the game too. Used to work in a restaurant. Worst part? Pre-bussing a table. That thing where you interrupt someone's mean and ask them while they're chewing if you can take that one plate that really isn't taking up a lot of space on their table back to the dishwashers only to awkwardly wait while they trying to finish their bite and provide some sort of response. Hated it.

It does make me think of putting something funny like "By the time you've read this, I will have read your wiki and debated if I'm going to approach your character."

I mean, I get this, but it's totally different in FFXIV, and if you take a breath an look at it, you'll see why. If you walk up to another person and RP something, they can just not respond. If they don't want to be bothered, or want to RP, they can just not type anything, or go.

/say Sorry I'm OOC))

I do way too much walk up RP, and sometimes people are either AFK/OOC or they just don't want to RP. If I don't get a response back for a few minutes, I'll send them a tell asking if they're IC.

Actually, here is a good way I use to judge interest in RP. If I walk up to a character that I think is IC, I look to see if they target me. I'll hover in front of them for a little bit before I start talking. Usually the ones who really want walk up RP will select my character to creep on me and read my tag. 95% of the time it means they're happy for the interaction.

Sometimes it's just a matter of reading the mood, admittedly.
Like what you mentioned, if someone approaches me and gets my attention, particularly in an area where there aren't too many characters for my poor PS3 to handle, I will usually look at the character in question for an extended period of time. If I am Monk, I am usually IC, so like Natalie said, it typically means my character is already ICly responding to you. I even have a lot of stock emotes macro'd, since my character does tend to be pretty inexpressive. I can't recall how many conversations have started with "Virara Wakuwa stares silently..." That's generally a pretty good sign.

There's no need to be embarrassed if you try to initiate rp and the other person is too busy. I try my best to not be in Monk whenever I'm doing progression based stuff in rp heavy areas, but sometimes that is unavoidable, particularly now when I have so much ground to cover to 60. On the flipside, I've approached quite a few players, but it is much harder to determine whether they're ready for an impromptu rp meeting outside of rest zones, like in the field, where they could be lvling or farming. It would be cool if there was an rp symbol, but at the same time, I often don't want to broadcast that too loudly, lol.

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