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(10-18-2016, 03:16 AM)McBeef Wrote:(10-18-2016, 03:02 AM)Zelmanov Wrote: to me 30 is a large enough number to fudge. You'll never run into something with 30 + Dragoons in RP all at once. Only rub I can see here is that thirty is TOO small for any Dragoon to /NOT/ know another dragoon. Its a high school class and you'll at least be able to know their name and appearance ESPECIALLY because there are your teammates, your brothers in arms, your peers, your equals.Â
Honesty...? Part of this I think is the fact that the world Square Enix has created is far to small to handle the number of players on a server. Like, if this were a single player game, 30 would seem like a big number. However no one at Square Enix treats the lore as if there are actually thousands of adventurers running around.So they pick a small number like 30 to make the player feel cool for being one of a small group.
Like, I scale everything up quiet heavily. Would the grand tournament between all the Eorzean city states really just be like a dozen soldiers? No, not in my idea of it.Â
For another example, I think must of us can agree that the Ul'dah in our minds is much larger than the space we see. Our RP's constantly invent little warehouses and alleys and such. Otherwise the Goblet would be larger than the actual town.Â
Don't worry about the number, it will never come up and it's variable. Scale things up to fit the world we RP in, a giant bustling place, not the small maps with a few dozen NPCs.
I actually wrote about this in a post I made to tumblr about why I don't rp as a/the WoL.
Quote:Basically, it doesn’t make sense. All of the cutscenes show our one character dealing with Big Stuff Going On in Very Powerful Ways. While some npcs will say something along the lines of “bring 7 of your adventuring friends to fight†before certain battles; it is me (whichever character) against X Enemy in the cut scenes… not all X thousands of us. (Can you imagine all of us trying to escape in the tunnels in 2.55? I mean… we’d be an army at that point and wouldn’t NEED to hide.) I can’t rp out that we are all Scions and fighting primals cause it makes no sense to me given the storyline we’ve had. Am I being too literal? Perhaps. But to do otherwise is not fun to me.
I think McBeef hit the nail on the head; it really seems as though the story and lore in XIV is set more for a single player experience than an mmo. Perhaps it can be said that the game is not written as though intended for the scores of roleplayers on Balmung, but instead for that guy on X server who just enjoys the story and who can just handwave off the incidental encounters his character has with other players. I think in a way that the story itself downplays the fact that this is an mmo. So here we are with a chunk of lore that is not conducive to group rp. If you were by yourself in this game, a limit of 10 DRGs is perfectly fine.
Perhaps I'm stepping across the line here, but I am really saddened by some folk's rush to prove they are not unique and special (it feels damn similar to a kid's rush to prove that they ARE the special chosen one above all others; almost as though this is the jaded adult version of it. "I had my hopes and dreams squashed out of me by the time I was 25, so you gotta suffer too!") that they tear down other people on their crusade of self-righteousness. Please, be kind to each other.