(05-21-2017, 10:00 PM)Sig Wrote:Still waiting for your answer! Also, maybe if you didn't act like you were the smart guy trying to convince us poor, blind sheep of the truth we'd be more receptive to your arguments. Makes you think.(05-21-2017, 09:11 PM)EliBallard Wrote:(05-21-2017, 08:54 PM)Sig Wrote:Still waiting to hear what the people who need a server now should do in your fantasy world. You keep skirting around the issue of them.(05-21-2017, 08:46 PM)ArrynThel Wrote: Hmmm... Wow.
I never reply here. I hate typing to mass groups like this but this is the dumbest argument I have ever seen. There's literally not one valid point made by anyone and it's turned into a demand that Balmung be the one RP hub. YOU WILL TAKE OUR RP AND LIKE IT! While I enjoy Balmung enough I'm certainly glad there are other servers with rp communities. Balmung is great for mass events like the Grindstone but damn it's nice to go to a smaller server for lighter stuff.
If you really want to identify one server as the RP HUB then use one of the newer servers they talked about offering transfers too and everyone agree on a specific one but I'm sure those will fill up fairly quickly with people from Balmung and Gligamesh since they are offering gil, game time etc etc to do it.
You presuppose the state of FFXIV if Balmung did not exist and there was no centralized RP hub. If there were no such hub, FFXIV roleplay would either be dead, minute in scale, or based entirely around isolated 20-40 person cliques.Â
There are dearths of "lighter stuff" that gets RPed on Balmung every day. The same can't be said for smaller servers. Balmung is already the RP hub, and it should continue being that hub until SE designated an official RP server.
Please note that "play on another server now and transfer in 3-6-9-12 months when/if the retriction is ever lifted is not an appropriate answer unless you're going to pay for all of their subs between now and then, as well as refund all the gil they'd lose making the trip in houses, etc.
More observations made on short time:
(1) I've addressed most counterpoints made in recent replies before. The one thing I haven't seen addressed is how this attempt to designate a second unofficial RP server will result in anything more than a 50-100 person community scattered across 3-5 FCs (all offering their own brand of homogenized RP) that eventually goes the way of the dodo, like all others before it. I really don't want to see that happen to great RPers who decide to RP on the alternative server, and Balmung itself would be at a loss [transfers will open up one day].
(2) Thankfully, Nero made an excellent post on the official forums about designating the RP server, and we should all be doing our part to support it.Â
(3) Some posters who perceive of the views discussed in the OP as crack-pot-esque are so accustomed to the quality and size of the Balmung RP community that they have not given consideration of the consequences of fragmenting the RP community. I don't see how anyone could really dispute the possible detriments that could happen as a result of the server restriction.  I hope these concerns are eventually unfounded after SE opens transfers in 1-3 months. Â
(4) For all of the, "what do we do - an alternative unofficial RP is necessary to help new RPers" -- the highest and best use of our time is advocating for either the restrictions end or an official designation. In the meantime, existing small RP communities should open their arms to new RPers until we can transition back to a central RP hub.  So yes, "play on another server now and transfer in 3-6-9-12 months when/if the restriction is ever lifted" is an appropriate answer.  The reality is most will transfer because most realize the value of a central RP hub, as demonstrated by Balmung's size.  We need to be doing whatever we can to convince SE to lift the restrictions sooner than later, or finally designate an RP server.
It's very unfortunate that an extremely basic proposition - a small community should remain together to ensure that it remains vibrant, diverse, and active can draw such division. But some are apparently content to live with the chaos SE has created. Unfortunate.
