(05-23-2017, 09:27 PM)Averis Wrote: <le snip> As Graeham stated, it seems like many RP opportunities turn into that more often than it used to. For many that's a bit... intimidating and awkward. I guess it used to seem more obvious if that's what you were getting into than it does now. If that makes sense.
There is obviously no easy solution, but I do wish we had a better means to advertise what we're looking for in game like you can in, say, WoW with its RP add-ons. That would likely lessen some of these things for everyone involved.
It's just my opinion, but, I think part of the reason a lot of people sort of... "hide" what their real goal is, is due to the general stigma in Western society which surrounds the promiscuous. We're a society which sells products by means of sex appeal (e.g. look at the pretty girl laying on this car, maybe if you get this car yours will also get a pretty girl laying on it sometime), yet chastises our youth for contemplating sex and sexuality, and so a lot of people feel uncomfortable being direct.
That might be why we have a lot of players who craft complicated stories and plot concepts, and then all but abandon the pursuit of them once they find somebody who will write about butts. Were they comfortable in their own skin, and felt like they wouldn't be judged for it, they may very well just forego the complexity and fill their Search Info with "pls butts? thx" and we'd all know exactly what they want from RP. Plain, simple, honest. But we know they'd be judged for that, they might even be scorned for it, so they conceal it.
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