Mateus is in a kind of interesting period. Amidst the long standing community of the server it's basically exploded with roleplayers since Storm Bloods launch. So you have a ton of guilds and players getting storylines, characters and contact lists up off the ground. To me the server feels like it's easy go and find RP when you want it right now, either at the Quicksand ( hit and miss, as that kind of open world location always seems to be ) and then at player run establishments open almost all nights of the week.
One of the things that's made me personally feel like it's easy to get connections off the ground is definitely the Discord server, right now having just shy of 500 people on, and at times with many, many, more than that towards peak hours. The moderators basically just try to make sure channels like the Looking for connection channel are on topic and the events page has been very nice.
It has the problems and good points you can expect of an RP server. The Community, especially the people driving some of the public events, have a lot of passion to see Mateus succeed so I feel we're still in a period where the server and population are maturing.
I suppose the biggest difference from what I experienced on Balmung is there is a more ingrained focus on story arcs and events, and on their interaction together. For some people an exciting, some people will prefer a more social and with the flow style though, so I feel there are merits and deterrents.
One of the things that's made me personally feel like it's easy to get connections off the ground is definitely the Discord server, right now having just shy of 500 people on, and at times with many, many, more than that towards peak hours. The moderators basically just try to make sure channels like the Looking for connection channel are on topic and the events page has been very nice.
It has the problems and good points you can expect of an RP server. The Community, especially the people driving some of the public events, have a lot of passion to see Mateus succeed so I feel we're still in a period where the server and population are maturing.
I suppose the biggest difference from what I experienced on Balmung is there is a more ingrained focus on story arcs and events, and on their interaction together. For some people an exciting, some people will prefer a more social and with the flow style though, so I feel there are merits and deterrents.
