(07-20-2017, 05:06 PM)Meena Wrote: maybe people just say they want an immersive world.. but not actually want one.
^ This. This for days. They want the social and immersive world, but only when they want it to be, or, when it serves to enhance their own experience and advance their own goals.
That said, it's important to remember that roleplayers come in all experience levels as players, and someone like you or me might look at the game world and think... "If I'm IC and you can make your character exist in the same zone/area my character is in, then feel free to interact with mine and react/respond to my RP. You don't need an invitation any more than you would need to be invited to say hi to someone you see at the grocery store IRL"Â ...but for someone with less experience, they may not be able to handle reacting/improvising so swiftly to an unexpected variable in their intended situation. So if someone presents an objection to a rando coming into their scene, it may very well just be that the player is new and not quite ready to have to shake things up on-the-fly.
However, on the other hand (bouncing back and forth here), the game world does have a ton of locations which are "off the beaten path" where players who are new and feeling a bit timid could go take their pals to do some RP which would be "in a public space" yet rather unlikely to be noticed by anyone or attract wandering participation. In that sense, it falls upon the player who wishes to bubble their scene to ensure they're doing said scene in a way which doesn't invite curiosity. Another option they could do is to keep the posting for the RP inside of a party chat, so that even though the characters are right on the street in Ul'dah it becomes impossible for anyone to overhear and intervene in their affairs (though, bouncing again, ideally if they go that route they should have some sort of explanation afoot in their scene as to why there's weirdly nobody around on the open street in a major city...).
Lydia Lightfoot ~ The Reliquarian's Guild «Relic» ~ Lavender Beds, Ward 12, #41
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This player has a sense of humor. If the content of the post suggests otherwise, please err on the side of amusement and friendship, because that's almost certainly the intent. We're all on the same team: Team Roleplayer! Have a smile, have a chuckle, and have a slice of pie. Isn't pie great?
