Proposal for Identifying Ourselves

[RiniKett]

Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

 

I've always kept an eye out for the "walk ups welcome" since the days I rped on WoW. I've had people actually turn away walk up RP because they weren't interested. A bigger pet peeve of mine are the people who do have it listed but then turn down the walk ups. Frustrating.

[Leggerless]

Visual cue without shifting through multiple menus to verify someone's IC? Yes, please. More efficient than examining search info.

 

Edit: Also shares the same color as the "online" symbol; an added bonus.

[Sin]

Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

I check/examine/inspect people compulsively. People who watch me stream comment on it. If I'm standing around, I'm inspecting people. Zooming in on their characters, checking their gear, reading their search box. I mean it's just a habit, and though it is pretty boring to read RP'er fifty million times every so often you get a new gem, a nicely worded bit about the character or just something funny altogether.

 

The other day I examined some Ishgardian Rp'er whose comment read "Pious in the streets, heretical in the sheets." I thought it was hilarious.

 

I stopped mentioning walk ups welcomed long ago and now I have a bit about the character or even a quote from the character to give you a tease of what you're getting into. It's just a better hook as you said.

 

Anyway, don't get me wrong guys. I fully support the idea and if I start seeing it gain traction I'll help it as much as I can, but in my experience... I'm just not sure it will.

 

Anyway, two thumbs up, good luck getting off the ground.

[Tortles]

This sounds like a good idea if the symbol isn't being used, though I'm always bothered when a game mechanic is appropriated to mean something else, and not everyone is in on it.

 

I would suggest adding a note in your search info that says "Materia meld Icon means I'm in character", or something along those lines, so that people can confirm.

[Olofantur]

An interesting idea!

 

I'll hop aboard if only for the sake of potentially using this later on to bother SE into making an IC icon or something of the sort. (and wanting to get back into public RP more.)

 

While i'm unable to participate on the forums due to an ancient banning, i'd be more than happy to spread the information around if an official thread was created on the forums. I think this would provide quite the boon to people who are not on Balmung, but are still interested in the idea of roleplaying. (Of course the stigma attached to it will still exist but c'est la vie.)

[Faye]

This would be nice, but I've seen people suggest this before, and it never got any traction. Hopefully, it might catch on this time.

[Trigonxv]

This sounds like a good idea if the symbol isn't being used, though I'm always bothered when a game mechanic is appropriated to mean something else, and not everyone is in on it.

 

I would suggest adding a note in your search info that says "Materia meld Icon means I'm in character", or something along those lines, so that people can confirm.

 

To be honest least for me the only symbols I see in use are busy and afk, the others ones aren't even used since pf takes care of party and meld requests.

[Lilia Lia]

This would be nice, but I've seen people suggest this before, and it never got any traction. Hopefully, it might catch on this time.

 

Make it mandatory for all HoD members.  Come on, Faye, abuse your power to change the culture.  You know you want to.  :thumbsup:

[Valtiere]

I would suggest adding a note in your search info that says "Materia meld Icon means I'm in character", or something along those lines, so that people can confirm.

 

I would do this but the space we have in the search info is so abysmally small there's no room left after putting in the [RP] tag and a small character note as hook to those who might use it.

 

I wish we could have a tiny bit more space in there.

[Chris Ganale]

I've always had a very brief blurb about my characters in their search info, followed by the RP thing. So either I've been putting dumb blurbs or my characters are interesting to absolutely no one.

 

That said, if this is going to be a thing, I'll pass it along to my group. I've mentioned it to one set already.

[Gone.]

Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

 

Been an advocate of this for a long time. I can't exactly read a character's mind, you know?

[LiadansWhisper]

This is a neat idea!

[Aedan Marceaux]

Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

 

Been an advocate of this for a long time. I can't exactly read a character's mind, you know?

Technically your character isn't a mind reader either. The RP Walkups Welcome is just saying that ... well.. walkups are welcome. As in real life, you don't simply know who a stranger is the moment you walk up to them. You have to observe them to figure out what is going on.

 

The same holds true in RP. Watch what a character is doing, and approach after you have your hook. Find out the rest (read:the stuff you would have to be a mind reader to learn) through actual RP.

[Gone.]

Well, no, but in a room with 2-3 dozen random IC roleplayers, I need more than 'walk-ups welcome' to pique my interest. I don't have the time or desire to waste time on characters who will have zero chemistry with mine; sure I'm not the only one, either.

[Z'ythe Solwind]

We need to ask, as a group consistently about our own symbol.  On the live letter question forums, on the suggestion forums, on the Q&A's.  This request needs traction.

[Spethah]

I'm a forgetful person, I almost always forget to check search info because really I've got no need to do it outside of "oh man is this person an RPer?". I don't have a description for my character because I do say "Please /t" and in that time you can just ask what kind of character Septh is while you ask for possible RP. Not hard.

 

Being someone that struggles to get anyone to notice me in RP, regardless of what I do, having a little flag that says "Yo I'm a lonely fucker that's IC send help" would be nice though not in those words, that was just my situation talking.

[Michikyou]

Well.. I can see this going terribly in some regards. it is an interesting idea, but I think non roleplayers will be very confused.

[Blue]

We need to ask, as a group consistently about our own symbol.  On the live letter question forums, on the suggestion forums, on the Q&A's.  This request needs traction.

 

Regarding the official forums, I want to leave here the link to the thread I made a while ago. Don't be afraid to bump it, it has got only positive consesus so far.

 

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/196200-An-IC-RP-status-would-be-nice-to-have%21

 

 

Also, for those of you who don't want to use the Official Forums because they're evil!, I recommend using this feature:

 

[Virella]

Conversely, I almost never look at search info. I always forget but there's only so many ways "Walk ups, welcome" can be worded anyway. It would be kind of nice if people put a brief tidbit about their character instead of "walk ups welcome." I'm probably not going to start random RP without finding a character hook of some sort first.

Is it just me but I find it quite troublesome to conjure up with a char description in search info, especially if you sort of use your ingame model as what to represent your character.

 

I really did not get further then "Ishgardian Elezen" x_X

[abnormalnomad]

It really would take a large scale effort to make this a 'thing'. For science, I put the tag on earlier this evening and did some 'fishing' RP in the Quicksand, roleplaying individually with the goal to attract and start roleplay, rather that be the one to initiate it, and suffice to say, it did basically nothing, and I had no more (and no less?) RP than I would have received otherwise. That's why I tend to approach whenever I'm in a mood to actually RP, rather than just 'wait' for it to fall in my lap. Aside from a few flavor emotes to let people know I'm IC, that is.

 

But, that being said, I definitely agree with the people above, though. If we really want a 'tag' to identify ourselves as roleplayers, we should ask the development team/the producer. I've been told they actually listen to their playerbase/community, which seems (sadly) surprising to me. Would be best to make this a proper 'thing', rather than some jury-rigged half measure.

[Lilia Lia]

Also, for those of you who don't want to use the Official Forums because they're evil!, I recommend using this feature:

 

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My problem with that feature is that it says "Support-related feedback or suggestions."  Which is vague, and could mean either "Support-related feedback" OR "Suggestions," or "Support-related feedback or Support-related suggestions," which sounds more likely.

 

I don't think these suggestions end up being read by anyone other than the support team, since all the other buttons go to either the Game Masters or the bug squishers.

[banndsand]

Also, for those of you who don't want to use the Official Forums because they're evil!, I recommend using this feature:

 

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/images/55b2229a22c3921f00968281.jpg[/img]

 

My problem with that feature is that it says "Support-related feedback or suggestions."  Which is vague, and could mean either "Support-related feedback" OR "Suggestions," or "Support-related feedback or Support-related suggestions," which sounds more likely.

 

I don't think these suggestions end up being read by anyone other than the support team, since all the other buttons go to either the Game Masters or the bug squishers.

 

"Feedback and suggestions regarding FFXIV can be posted on the official FFXIV General Discussion forums."

It says that on the bottom, there. I'm gonna guess that means they only really want support-related feedback/suggestions being sent through this feature.

[Blue]

Also, for those of you who don't want to use the Official Forums because they're evil!, I recommend using this feature:

 

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/images/55b2229a22c3921f00968281.jpg[/img]

 

My problem with that feature is that it says "Support-related feedback or suggestions."  Which is vague, and could mean either "Support-related feedback" OR "Suggestions," or "Support-related feedback or Support-related suggestions," which sounds more likely.

 

I don't think these suggestions end up being read by anyone other than the support team, since all the other buttons go to either the Game Masters or the bug squishers.

 

"Feedback and suggestions regarding FFXIV can be posted on the official FFXIV General Discussion forums."

It says that on the bottom, there. I'm gonna guess that means they only really want support-related feedback/suggestions being sent through this feature.

 

Support is a pretty loose term however. In the most elementary sense of the term, anything that makes the gaming experience easier and more enjoyable can be defined as "support", and more specific Search functions such as an IC/RP icon do fall in that category, whereas, say, asking "omg add a tankini in-game please!" would be not.

[Altitis Acquired]

So, I've been trying out this /lfm to show I am IC and even suggested it in /shout, presenting the idea to others. So far, most people seem against it.

[ShoggMommy]

So, I've been trying out this /lfm to show I am IC and even suggested it in /shout, presenting the idea to others. So far, most people seem against it.

 

Honestly, I'm rather against it's use as well.

While the concept is neat, I can see it being confused very easily for people who aren't RPers. And even then, this only will really tell me who is in the RPC as the bigger community isn't here but rather in-game.