1) I would say start when ever you would like, being lv 50 is by no means a requirement to role play, though I would hit 15-20 when you can get access to other cities.
2) Your welcome to develop your back story as much as you would like, I would say it depends on the age of your character or how important your back story is to their current lives. I would say at least some idea of major events that influenced your character help flesh it out and make it easier to play. My character Torvhan has a couple events that effected his life that I wrote out. While my character K'mana is part of a tribe on the forums so I am spending significantly more time on her past.
3) I found it easiest to seek out people on the forums, or to attend open events on your server. I joined a linkshell after an open event in Beta 3 on Torvhan run by Blue Skies that was posted here on the forums, and K'mana came to be as part of the Hipparion Tribe organization thread.
4) Everyone seems to have their own preference, though I believe ingame emotes must be in a separate line by them selves or you can make buttons to click from the emote window.
Couple things I've seen for emotes their is a custom emote system so if you type
/em sits on chair. the game will output that in emote text as Torvhan Durant sits on chair.
Personally I'll use ingame emotes or the *emote* method. I usually see the (( )) for OOC chat like asking a question or talking about something metagame.
5) It all depends on your group I tend to shift to what other people in the group are doing, I feel it makes the chat easier to read. But for active emotes I usually perform them when I want the action to happen on my toon. Though I would note that emotes and such are useful for local RP and if you would like to keep your RP in party chat or such I would stick to the the text based version.
6) That would work, but often times you can just walk by and hop in especially at events, I've seen quite a few meet and greet or other open events meant to help people get to know one another. The forums from what I seen is open to people randomly joining in at taverns and such, thats half the fun.
Hope you have fun and find a good group! I would make sure to attend any events you can their great places to meet people, and get an idea about the link shells that run them.
2) Your welcome to develop your back story as much as you would like, I would say it depends on the age of your character or how important your back story is to their current lives. I would say at least some idea of major events that influenced your character help flesh it out and make it easier to play. My character Torvhan has a couple events that effected his life that I wrote out. While my character K'mana is part of a tribe on the forums so I am spending significantly more time on her past.
3) I found it easiest to seek out people on the forums, or to attend open events on your server. I joined a linkshell after an open event in Beta 3 on Torvhan run by Blue Skies that was posted here on the forums, and K'mana came to be as part of the Hipparion Tribe organization thread.
4) Everyone seems to have their own preference, though I believe ingame emotes must be in a separate line by them selves or you can make buttons to click from the emote window.
Couple things I've seen for emotes their is a custom emote system so if you type
/em sits on chair. the game will output that in emote text as Torvhan Durant sits on chair.
Personally I'll use ingame emotes or the *emote* method. I usually see the (( )) for OOC chat like asking a question or talking about something metagame.
5) It all depends on your group I tend to shift to what other people in the group are doing, I feel it makes the chat easier to read. But for active emotes I usually perform them when I want the action to happen on my toon. Though I would note that emotes and such are useful for local RP and if you would like to keep your RP in party chat or such I would stick to the the text based version.
6) That would work, but often times you can just walk by and hop in especially at events, I've seen quite a few meet and greet or other open events meant to help people get to know one another. The forums from what I seen is open to people randomly joining in at taverns and such, thats half the fun.
Hope you have fun and find a good group! I would make sure to attend any events you can their great places to meet people, and get an idea about the link shells that run them.
Player Directory
Torvhan
Torvhan's Journal / Torvhan's Wiki
K'mana
Hipparion Tribe Timeline / Family Register
Torvhan
Torvhan's Journal / Torvhan's Wiki
K'mana
Hipparion Tribe Timeline / Family Register
