Square: You need to open servers before this community is slowly choked

[DeaconMoore]

Actually there is. For RP it is better the more RPers are around, so moving to a server with lots of RPers on makes perfect sense. Lots more chances of finding a group you like.
If you move to a server where there is just a tiny RP community and then you find out they don't match you - then what? You move elsewhere. On a big RP server like Balmung you can easily find other people to roleplay with, but on a tiny server there might be no choice but to move to another server.

Have you never scouted a server out before? You don't have to 100% commit right away blind.

The servers have technical limitations to the amount of people they can accommodate. Picking just a couple servers to dog pile on and well, we see the results. Spread. Out. More. Who knows, you may even meet your new best friend.

[Rokke]

Have you never scouted a server out before? You don't have to 100% commit right away blind.

The servers have technical limitations to the amount of people they can accommodate. Picking just a couple servers to dog pile on and well, we see the results. Spread. Out. More. Who knows, you may even meet your new best friend.

If you scout out rp across servers you'll wind up Mateus lol

You're repeating the same point without once commenting on how other mmos have unofficial rp servers or how people will be forced to deal with extremely limited contacts. You're on the new rp servers, its easy to say "SPREAD OUT" when you're already at the best spot xD

[DeaconMoore]

If you scout out rp across servers you'll wind up Mateus lol

You're repeating the same point without once commenting on how other mmos have unofficial rp servers or how people will be forced to deal with extremely limited contacts. You're on the new rp servers, its easy to say "SPREAD OUT" when you're already at the best spot xD

I joined mateus during HW well before it was "the rp spot to be" with the release of SB. Mateus despite being one of the smallest servers at the time still had an rp community. Yes, it's been bolstered but if you people keep up with the bs that its the rp spot to be it will no doubt join Balmung as locked eventually. As I said before, when I joined the game I scouted the servers and many of them do have rp communities on them. If you go there and bolster them they will grow too.

[Rokke]

I joined mateus during HW well before it was "the rp spot to be" with the release of SB. Mateus despite being one of the smallest servers at the time still had an rp community. Yes, it's been bolstered but if you people keep up with the bs that its the rp spot to be it will no doubt join Balmung as locked eventually. As I said before, when I joined the game I scouted the servers and many of them do have rp communities on them. If you go there and bolster them they will grow too.

I won't deny that rp exists on other servers - the pools of people are just more limited when they are spread out. I moved off Faerie over 2 years ago because I was frustrated that I couldn't find the contacts I was looking for.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I won't deny that rp exists on other servers - the pools of people are just more limited when they are spread out. I moved off Faerie over 2 years ago because I was frustrated that I couldn't find the contacts I was looking for.

Those pools would probably be bigger if everyone didn't tell everyone else "only go to Balmung, you can bypass the character creation lockouts by paying for a transfer."

[Rokke]

Those pools would probably be bigger if everyone didn't tell everyone else "only go to Balmung, you can bypass the character creation lockouts by paying for a transfer."

If server A has 100 rpers, server B has 1000 rpers and server C has 10 rpers, server B is the ideal destination if rping is important to your gaming experience. Can you rp on server A and C? Yes. But say you move to server C and discover that 6 of those 10 rpers strictly rp pirate storylines and you don’t, you are now left with a pool of 4/10 people to rp with. That is why the dogpiling happens in every mmo that has rpers.

F-forward and back and then go forward and back and then go forward and back...Wyrmrest, Moonguard, Emerald Dream, Jiwan, Orwen (Calpheon 2)- Rpers clump together. I expect Bless to form an unofficial hangout whenever it finally releases.

I wish small servers the best of luck growing their rp communities, but there will always be a hub people flock to. If/when Mateus ever locks, a new server will be picked. To expect otherwise is silly.

[DeaconMoore]

I won't deny that rp exists on other servers - the pools of people are just more limited when they are spread out. I moved off Faerie over 2 years ago because I was frustrated that I couldn't find the contacts I was looking for.

I do get that. It does suck to not see what you're looking for and to have to continue the search. The size of the pool doesn't matter though if you find what you're looking for. You can be surrounded by a thousand RPers but does that really matter if your group is only 5 strong and you're having fun? It's just the 5 of you when you really look at it. The rest are just nondescript extras in the background.

F-forward and back and then go forward and back and then go forward and back...Wyrmrest, Moonguard, Emerald Dream, Jiwan, Orwen (Calpheon 2)- Rpers clump together. I expect Bless to form an unofficial hangout whenever it finally releases.

I wish small servers the best of luck growing their rp communities, but there will always be a hub people flock to. If/when Mateus ever locks, a new server will be picked. To expect otherwise is silly.

Repeating the same action over and over expecting different results I hear is often called insanity. If you insist on continuing this course you really have no right to complain about server locks and stagnating communities.

[Nezerius]

Picking just a couple servers to dog pile on and well, we see the results. Spread. Out. More. Who knows, you may even meet your new best friend.

That's not really how it works for the majority of the roleplayers. There's a clear reason why roleplayers flock to a few specific servers, which is to make it easier to find like-minded players who they want to roleplay with.
There's always going to be a few, here and there. Ones that prefer a small, tight knit RP community, or ones that want to start a new one on a less populated server. However, these are the minority.

Besides, this behaviour isn't just limited to roleplayers. Just look at Gilgamesh, and the amount of people that used to transfer there. They went there because it has/had a large hardcore raiding community, making it easier to find a static.

Telling roleplayers on unofficial RP servers to spread out more, is akin to telling hardcore raiders in a large established raiding community to just go to a smaller server to start a new raiding community on it. Why would they go through all that effort, with the uncertainty of it actually being successful?

On the subject of "exposing" non-roleplayers to roleplay; while I can only speak for myself, I really have no interest in trying to convince a non-roleplayer like that. I'd rather spend my time roleplaying with other roleplayers.

[DeaconMoore]

On the subject of "exposing" non-roleplayers to roleplay; while I can only speak for myself, I really have no interest in trying to convince a non-roleplayer like that. I'd rather spend my time roleplaying with other roleplayers.

So a newbie to rp isn't an RPer? Huh, I wonder how RP even got its start. Did you spring from the ground fully formed and programmed with the knowledge already? I know I didn't...

And exposing a non-rper to rp doesn't mean you have to make any special effort. People simply walking by your group doing it's thing are getting exposed passively. If they're interested, they'll observe and maybe interact. If you're just going to be a snob to them because they failed to properly do something, well, you're certainly not helping grow the community either.

[Nezerius]

So a newbie to rp isn't an RPer? Huh, I wonder how RP even got its start.

A newbie to RP is already an RPer, not a non-RPer, because they've already set the first step by showing interest in RP themselves.

And exposing a non-rper to rp doesn't mean you have to make any special effort. People simply walking by your group doing it's thing are getting exposed passively. If they're interested, they'll observe and maybe interact.

Which is very unlikely to happen on servers with a small RP community.

In a previous post, you mentioned non-RPers who have heard about RP, and might be interested, but don't know where to go looking. What's stopping these non-RP players from simply asking around on their server (through ingame, or out of game means)? Why does it require them to be "exposed" to it by randomly happening to run into a group of people RPing?

If you're just going to be a snob to them because they failed to properly do something, well, you're certainly not helping grow the community either.

Same can be said about any groups of players, from PvE to PvP and RP.

Im actually content on Balmung, lock or no. Feel free to check my post history- imo, the locks are an unfortunate but necessary evil.

It should've been locked from transfers way, way sooner, while keeping the (limited windows) of character creation available.

Isn't there a section of the forums specifically for each world? Oh yeah there is!!!

Like the community team actually reads the realm forums.

They aren't going to open up Balmung until the population stabilizes. You want Balmung open? Move.

Better hope that Leviathan's population remains stabilized, then. It's already on the path to surpass Gilgamesh, a server that's still locked.