Dear Super-RP'ers.

[Canadane]

"I feel like I'm forgetting something important.... gosh I hope I turned off the stove"

I once ran across the house to turn off my forgotten stove while tanking T9.

Was still alive when I got back! It was just the first phase, but I don't think my healers were a fan though.

[Dererk]

This really happens? Wow IV no words.

[ruskie]

I once ran across the house to turn off my forgotten stove while tanking T9.

Was still alive when I got back! It was just the first phase, but I don't think my healers were a fan though.

Heh first time I entered T9 helping some people as a pug. Had no clue what the fight was about, just got some scrambled info. As a bard took a rock straight to the face... and lived through it - and this was pre-echo days. People sure did get excited about it screaming in TS and I couldn't really understand them cause they were overdoing it hehe.

[Verius_Nox]

I've never seen this kind of behavior, and I'm on a big unofficial RP server so I get grouped with them a lot more than not. I think either you met trolls, or you're trolling yourself.

[Canadane]

Heh first time I entered T9 helping some people as a pug. Had no clue what the fight was about, just got some scrambled info. As a bard took a rock straight to the face... and lived through it - and this was pre-echo days. People sure did get excited about it screaming in TS and I couldn't really understand them cause they were overdoing it hehe.

I'd be impressed too! Heck our off-tank could barely survive a meteor right on the head lol.

[Naunet]

I actually got invited to a RP'ing FC once. But I didn't join b/c I was scared I wouldn't be able to have real conversations with them. I'd only like to witness the RP'ing from afar I guess.

I really don't understand why people have this misconception about roleplayers.

We are people. We play the game. Most of us do a lot more than just roleplay. Our guild chats are hardly any different than any other, save for the added conversation topics of discussing each other's plots and characters and such. Stop basing your perceptions of us on trolls like the OP encountered, who aren't even actually roleplayers.

[Jacosta]

I really don't understand why people have this misconception about roleplayers.

We are people. We play the game. Most of us do a lot more than just roleplay. Our guild chats are hardly any different than any other, save for the added conversation topics of discussing each other's plots and characters and such. Stop basing your perceptions of us on trolls like the OP encountered, who aren't even actually roleplayers.

Well someone's cornflakes got pee'd in apparently....
All I meant was I wouldn't know if I'd be able to tell if they were RP'ing or being serious while talking to them. I'm not basing my perceptions on the OP's, I'm basing it on the fact that I've never encountered one before and wouldn't know what to expect (just like I said in my previous post, I have never seen anyone RP before).

[Naunet]

Sorry. It's just a very common and tired thing to hear from a lot of people who don't care for roleplayers. They pretend we're all ERPers, or we do things like what the OP encountered, or they think all we do is roleplay and are therefor awful at the game... >_< I had a bit of a knee-jerk defensive reaction, especially as a lot of people in this thread seem to be accepting at face-value that the OP's encounters were actual roleplayers.

[Catwho]

Sorry. It's just a very common and tired thing to hear from a lot of people who don't care for roleplayers. They pretend we're all ERPers, or we do things like what the OP encountered, or they think all we do is roleplay and are therefor awful at the game... >_< I had a bit of a knee-jerk defensive reaction, especially as a lot of people in this thread seem to be accepting at face-value that the OP's encounters were actual roleplayers.

Since most of us have encountered at least one in the dungeons, I would not be surprised if folks like the OP have encountered more than one, especially on Aether data center.

The worst is RP macros in every single battle action.

Very few actions in this game need a macro - Raise, Provoke, occasionally Virus or Eye for an Eye to avoid wasting them since they don't stack, Ballad or Foes to avoid wasting bard MP in multi-bard situations... that's about it. But I have seen screenshots of people, whether RPers or just inconsiderate jerks, with every action having its own line of text.

[Naunet]

My point was that those players who do the things the OP described are usually just trolls. They aren't roleplayers. We don't do that. They're trolls who think roleplayers are dumb and who want to use "rp" as an excuse to troll someone's dungeon run.

The text macros aren't really something associated with roleplayers either. The people I've encountered who do that I actually know for a fact to not engage in roleplay. They just do it either because they genuinely think it's cool, or again they're doing it to get a rise out of others they play with.