New World and World Population Balancing Incentives Introduced

[Gumbercules]

I'm sure it's futile to hope... but this would be the best time for SE to designate Balmung with some sort of RP flag.

On live letter they seemed to be leaning heavily towards not "officially" designating any server as RP anytime soon. Seems they do not want "conflicts" between RP er and non RP ers, ie RP ers trying to tell non-RPers to get off their server if hey wont RP etc. So doesn't seem likely to happen.

[Azuta]

On live letter they seemed to be leaning heavily towards not "officially" designating any server as RP anytime soon. Seems they do not want "conflicts" between RP er and non RP ers, ie RP ers trying to tell non-RPers to get off their server if hey wont RP etc. So doesn't seem likely to happen.

I don't understand the whole conflict deal. I mean there is already conflict between non rpers and rpers on balmung as is. I mean try being a rper for a day.....and wait for all the people parading around in ghost costumes, emote thrusting at you, using ring a thorns on you while your rping, telling you to get out of here with that rp, being stalked by a person while invisible, being holy spammed on. I could go on....really.


I mean rpers are generally not going to push anyone to rp and our generally not going to tell people to get off a server if their respectful. Its gotten bad enough that most people rp in there estates or in a linkshell at his point cause the abuse is so rampant.

[Gwendi]

I don't understand the whole conflict deal. I mean there is already conflict between non rpers and rpers on balmung as is. I mean try being a rper for a day.....and wait for all the people parading around in ghost costumes, emote thrusting at you, using ring a thorns on you while your rping, telling you to get out of here with that rp, being stalked by a person while invisible, being holy spammed on. I could go on....really.

And it would go on even if the server was flagged "RP." That sort of thing only seems to make the sort of people that harass RPers even more likely to do it.

[Azuta]

And it would go on even if the server was flagged "RP." That sort of thing only seems to make the sort of people that harass RPers even more likely to do it.

I mean its not something you can escape there will always be an rp troll that's just the nature of things. However I disagree with you on the other point. In balmung the fact that is not label enables those trolls to be validated by others in the community for there actions. This fact then cause them to do it even more for validation from their peers on the server. However if there was an rp tagged server they may be less enthusiastic about going on and causing trouble when a whole bunch of more rpers exist and have the majority. It also requires more work making a new character on a new server and unlocking teleportation so they can get to the hubs to do the trolling in the first place.

So unless there really dedicated, I don't see to many of them actually bothering with it unless they have a personal vendetta. Its better they do this now... then have to do something community destroying to balmung to cope with the server stability and stress, like being locked for the entire year.

[Gwendi]

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I'm probably just cynical from my experience with Blizzard's "dedication*" to protecting RPers from harassment on their RP designated servers. The differences between Warcraft and FFXIV are pretty big when it comes to ease of travel at low levels.

*By dedication, I mean "not having a care about a large portion of their dedicated players."

[Driavna]

I'm probably just cynical from my experience with Blizzard's "dedication*" to protecting RPers from harassment on their RP designated servers. The differences between Warcraft and FFXIV are pretty big when it comes to ease of travel at low levels.

*By dedication, I mean "not having a care about a large portion of their dedicated players."

I disagree, if not like Blizzard ignore it but players saturate their system with really childist disputes. That's why SE remove chat from certain PvP modes, it's just not worth the time to constant babysit "adults" that can't handle any kind of conflict or use already in game features to deal with trolls.

[Kyuuen]

I don't understand the whole conflict deal. I mean there is already conflict between non rpers and rpers on balmung as is. I mean try being a rper for a day.....and wait for all the people parading around in ghost costumes, emote thrusting at you, using ring a thorns on you while your rping, telling you to get out of here with that rp, being stalked by a person while invisible, being holy spammed on. I could go on....really.


I mean rpers are generally not going to push anyone to rp and our generally not going to tell people to get off a server if their respectful. Its gotten bad enough that most people rp in there estates or in a linkshell at his point cause the abuse is so rampant.

If this is taking place report them. It's considered a form of harassment and griefing.

and yet thats the only area i ever see rpers actually doing Rp

Then you don't go out into the actual world enough. There's been several, several times while out flying around leveling, fate grinding, or some form of farming mats that I've seen people RPing outside a capital. Is it a constant? No, but it does happen.