Someone hates us!

[K'nahli]

Some people in my shell commented on being approached by creepers asking for ERP. I read about such a case on this forums a while back but I imagined it to be totally isolated if not exaggerated or even fabricated. So I guess there's no denying it. Even if I have yet to encounter it myself(bar the FC called ERP), there is that sect that only gives reason for non-RP'ers to be weirded out by us, as J'hared stated.

[FreelanceWizard]

Some people in my shell commented on being approached by creepers asking for ERP. I read about such a case on this forums a while back but I imagined it to be totally isolated if not exaggerated or even fabricated. So I guess there's no denying it.

 

This totally happens, and is just plain weird. I was on my tank-y alt yesterday and got a random tell from someone saying hello, and being my usual nice self, I replied back, only to have the person start trying to hint about wanting to do some ERP. I think this is the first time that's ever happened to me in a game like, well, ever. It's weird.

 

To the overall topic, there's lots of reasons why people might be confused or dislike RPers, just as people might be confused or dislike, say, hardcore PvPers. The important thing is to be respectful to the other party and let them have their fun. I wouldn't go into PvP teams to throw matches or join raids just to wipe them; likewise, I think it's only fair to get the same level of respect for what I like to do (i.e., RP) in return. Griefing or trolling anyone for any reason is inappropriate.

[Magellan]

 

This totally happens, and is just plain weird. I was on my tank-y alt yesterday and got a random tell from someone saying hello, and being my usual nice self, I replied back, only to have the person start trying to hint about wanting to do some ERP.

 

Sorry man, I just couldn't help myself. I was in the mood for some Tank Amore...

 

j/k, j/k

 

I once had someone hit on one of my characters, and then propose to her within 20 mins of meeting her. He then magically made her a ring that had the inscription 'though you hide your wings, you are an Angel' on it.

 

I was like... whut ._.

[Ciara Snow]

I give you kudos for roleplaying in a fate, I love action roleplay! whenever I see people like this i tend to say somethings along the lines of (poor you.. coming to the server that everyone roleplays on. Must suck for you<3)

It's the bronies things all over

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on a side note the talk about being asked about erp, surprisingly I have been hit on more on my lalafell, (including  by people who didn't roleplay wanting to erp with me)  then I have been on my Miqote, my elezen and my highlander combined @.@

[Dravus]

I've taken a break from role-playing my Miqo'te simply due to the unfortunate trend of a lot of Miqo'te role-play revolving around creepy ERP requests or perhaps even worse tweenage style romance drama. The amount of times I see the exact same role-players going on and on about how 'cute' it'd be if their Miqo'te shagged each other is beyond ridiculous. It seems to make up a good portion of the discussion going on in certain Linkshells.

 

Granted, this isn't anything new - the exact same issue afflicted Night Elf and Blood Elf role-play back in WoW, so there's definitely portions of the role-playing community that deserve to be mocked for their behaviour. It's just a shame the rest of us are often tarnished with a similar brush by association.

[Miss Marigold]

Edit: Please ignore this post! I think I misinterpreted what I was replying to!

[Dravus]

Edit: No problem!

[K'nahli]

^ *curious* ;w;

 

I don't know whether to be grateful that I haven't been targeted by such people yet or upset that my Miqo hasn't been deemed pretty enough to consider it hahaha.

 

In seriousness though, how are FATEs rp'd. Did you just happened to be RP'ing nearby and then behaved as though you heard a commotion and ran to the aid of the wailers?

[Miss Marigold]

^ *curious* ;w;

 

It's a secret!

 

In seriousness though, how are FATEs rp'd. Did you just happened to be RP'ing nearby and then behaved as though you heard a commotion and ran to the aid of the wailers?

 

Usually we'll start off doing work for the Wailers or similar with location information coming in via linkpearl so we know where to gallop off to. After a bit though, you just RP about whatever while you run around and kill things. It's just not any fun to pretend goblins are attacking the same thing again after you've already dispatched them several times!

 

The fact that events in this game are sort of icky, don't really chain much, and generally disappear without consequence if a timer runs out makes it hard to address them too directly. Guild Wars 2 does it a lot better!

[Coral Ferrinas]

Our leader, Gilbert La'pine of the Gridania Surveyors, is so good in RP >.<

So good that this FATE RP was awesome.

 

We took the FATE just above the Quarrymill, the one fortress that the Redbellies intend to take. Our Free Company is placed under the branch of the Yellow Serpent of the Twin Adder, hence the name. So, we RP in the manner of missions, scouting, or surveying.

 

I think there are a lot of FATEs that you can use for RP. One such FATE is the one on the Highbridge. Was it Qiqirn or other beast race that involved a continuous chain of FATEs. I'm sure any Flames RP group, or Adventurers' or Mercenaries' Companies RP could use it as a setting. The problem of it was to wait for the FATE to appear.

 

Lucky for us, the Redbellies' FATE happens right on the moment as we reached the area. If not, I'm sure Gilbert has a backup story to keep the pace. When the FATE appears, He said in the line of "The intel was bad" and "we have taken for fools!" and after the FATE, "We need to work on our intelligence network."

 

Cool eh? :cactuar:

[ArmachiA]

I've had a lot of RP griefers in this game, but most of the time I ignore them. Just completely. Don't even acknowledge that they are around. They just aren't a part of my characters reality (as I'm IC at the time) so I don't even think of them as being there.

 

That being said, I went to an RP at Bronze Lake and someone came over asking if they could join the ERP, this happened for about a half hour before they moved on and the other day my guild went to RP at the Grindstone meeting and this guy comes in and just goes "NERDS!" which made me laugh A LOT because it reminded me of this:

 

 

And I lost it laughing and wasn't good for about 10 minutes.

 

I haven't had any ERP requests in this game (I doubt I'll get them much, playing a Highlander Female) but I used to get a lot when I was on my Draenei alt in WoW. THAT is just uncomfortable and I feel bad for anyone who gets one unprovoked .

[Saefinn]

You will get your fair share of trolls, we get them in our RPs, the most effective solution I've found? Ignore the crap out of them, there's nothing funnier than watching a troll try too hard and fail miserably, some of them get really frustrated by it.

[ryanxwonbin]

To be very fair, for the average normal person who just wants to play the game, RPing looks really strange and uncomfortable to them. And while we have chosen to be in the Balmung server, I don't believe SE ever said it was an official place for us. It's like if you were at a park to have a picnic, and right there in the field is a death metal band playing loud music.

 

I think it's only fair that we don't act like the game belongs to us, and act as the bullied victims. If possible with a few people, I think we should keep it to party chat. Otherwise just ignore when other players gripe.

[Vito]

My absolute favorite is being called a "nerd" on an MMO. Are you kidding me? We're all ****ing nerds. 

 

I literately saw a guy shout "NERDS!!" the other day, I forgot where. It was definitely over the weekend though. Really man? It's Friday-Saturday and you're inside playing games just like I am.

 

In reality though, this game has had the least RP griefers I've seen in a long time. At least the general population doesn't have issues with us and the ones who complain are the minority.

[FreelanceWizard]

I think it's only fair that we don't act like the game belongs to us, and act as the bullied victims. If possible with a few people, I think we should keep it to party chat. Otherwise just ignore when other players gripe.

 

When you fall back to party chat, you limit the number of people and you close off from other RPers -- as you're implicitly making your scene private. Additionally, given the blacklist function, there's no reason why they can't avoid that which they don't like. Hiding away from people who are abusive when they don't like you isn't respecting the other player; it's letting the abuser win.

[Dravus]

I think it's only fair that we don't act like the game belongs to us, and act as the bullied victims. If possible with a few people, I think we should keep it to party chat. Otherwise just ignore when other players gripe.

 

When you fall back to party chat, you limit the number of people and you close off from other RPers -- as you're implicitly making your scene private. Additionally, given the blacklist function, there's no reason why they can't avoid that which they don't like. Hiding away from people who are abusive when they don't like you isn't respecting the other player; it's letting the abuser win.

 

Yeah, I find the use of party chat to be pretty awkward in most situations. I've seen a lot of players out in the game world who may very well be role-playing as they move around, though...they also seemed to be making use of party chat which made me not really want to bother getting involved. In one case they threw me an invite and asked me if I wanted to join in, though after explaining that I'd prefer to make use of public chat channels they seemed to lose interest and wandered off.

[ArmachiA]

Yeah I don't like RPing in party that much because it makes you seem closed off. How are other people supposed to join in? We were RPing as a guild the other day and a random guy starting RPing with us and it turned into a whole storyline that was really great and just would not have happened if we were in /party.

[Asyria]

If you play a female in Ul'dah, beware Dark Seraph.

This is all I can add.

[FreelanceWizard]

*blink blink* I echo Asyria's statement. That creepy random tell out of blue I mentioned I got earlier? That was the source.

[Lost River]

Well, as how it goes. Close minded individuals will fear what they do not understand. Sadly it also applies to online gaming as well.

[CassandraJean]

I hope too many people do not start rping in party chat. I can see doing that if you -want- your RP to be a private one, maybe it's a more personal storyline that you don't want people to get involved in.

 

But to be honest, even if I am not in the mood to join in with someone else's RP, I always feel so happy when I see others doing it publically. Like I hurried into a pub and there were about three or four people RPing. I didnt join in, but I walked by extra slow and it just made me giddy to see them.

 

I love seeing people enjoy the game.

[Asyria]

Main reason I RP in Party chat is this: in real life, when I'm in public areas, chatting with a friend or even multiple friends, I have never ever had a random stranger just jump into the conversation. I have done so myself only once in my entire life.

 

The difference is hobby stores, but you just have to expect random conversations between hobbyists in their natural environment.

 

I understand wanting to be inclusive and inviting to other RPers but it's just unrealistic that people would jump into strangers' conversations, and RPers seem to do that all the time. It's an admittedly very mild case of metagaming (realistically, the people talking in the street wouldn't stand out at all) but it still bugs me.

 

In the case of social events, of course we want to be inclusive and do everything publicly but most of the time, it just doesn't make sense for me to do so. Unless my character is being particularly loud or something.

[Magellan]

Asyria, I have thought about your point often: how its unrealistic for people to jump into conversations without reason to. But the thing is, there can be reasons to. New folks are so eager to rp that they just run up and yell 'hey guise! What's going on!?'

 

It's the wrong approach, but the enthusiasm is totally a good thing. It's a perfect opportunity OOCly to try and help them learn better 'how to work yourself into a scene' approach.

 

Coming out of the archers guild in Gridania yesterday, my miqo Claire discovered a Bard training a brand new Lalafell archer how to use her bow.

 

"Wish I had a cool hat like that," Claire grumbled, eyeing the bard.

 

 

That was an opening. If the Bard ignored me, Claire would just move on. However, he chose to acknowledge her! What followed was a fun 10 minute on the spot RP. It was a nice break from the pve grind I was doing. Had they been in party chat Iwould have sadly missed that opportunity.

 

Nor is party chat realistic. Two people are standing right in front of Claire talking, and yet she can't hear a word they are saying? That is just as unrealistic as people 'crashing' conversations. Some scenes deserve privacy, I'll give you that. But then don't do them in public places

 

Open world RP can be extremely rewarding and gratifying. Having to put up with a troll here or there shouldn't turn people off from it. Having over-enthusiastic rpers crash your scene should be seen as an opportunity to better instruct them on how to create more realistic interactions. Party chat deprives them of that opportunity.

 

An RP community is only strong if it looks out for each other, and if it continues to grow. Ignoring the new folks, or avoiding them, is the worst thing a community can do, and why so many people harbor u fair grudges against rpers in the first place.

[DAISHI]

Get with the times kids. If nobody hates you you're not doing life right.

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Main reason I RP in Party chat is this: in real life, when I'm in public areas, chatting with a friend or even multiple friends, I have never ever had a random stranger just jump into the conversation. I have done so myself only once in my entire life.

 

The difference is hobby stores, but you just have to expect random conversations between hobbyists in their natural environment.

 

I understand wanting to be inclusive and inviting to other RPers but it's just unrealistic that people would jump into strangers' conversations, and RPers seem to do that all the time. It's an admittedly very mild case of metagaming (realistically, the people talking in the street wouldn't stand out at all) but it still bugs me.

 

In the case of social events, of course we want to be inclusive and do everything publicly but most of the time, it just doesn't make sense for me to do so. Unless my character is being particularly loud or something.

 

It's unrealistic for an introvert.

 

Don't push that on extroverts. People like me have no issue jumping into other conversations or striking up talks with people they don't know.

[Naunet]

Main reason I RP in Party chat is this: in real life, when I'm in public areas, chatting with a friend or even multiple friends, I have never ever had a random stranger just jump into the conversation. I have done so myself only once in my entire life.

 

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I understand wanting to be inclusive and inviting to other RPers but it's just unrealistic that people would jump into strangers' conversations, and RPers seem to do that all the time. It's an admittedly very mild case of metagaming (realistically, the people talking in the street wouldn't stand out at all) but it still bugs me.

 

Then, please, tell me how you expect people to start up RP with you? Because all you're doing is isolating yourself from the community and potential RP. No one can tell whether or not you're just standing around afk or chatting OOCly, or if you're RPing. And I certainly wouldn't want to engage in RP with someone who only wants to do it in /p. I want RP public and open, and your own reluctance to start up conversations with people in public spaces does not mean it's some kind of strange thing.