Why do you lock up your houses?

[Awha]

I lock mine because I do not want people inside.

From experience if someone has a negative outlook on RP based off ignorance once you try to clear up any misconception that ignorance just evolves into willful ignorance.

[Mikki]

From experience if someone has a negative outlook on RP based off ignorance once you try to clear up any misconception that ignorance just evolves into willful ignorance.

Sad but quite true. Still, it irks me that so many people seem to assume that cybering is the same as roleplaying and that all roleplays are as such. *shrugs* Oh well, what can you do I guess?

[YumekoKei]

My house is locked because it looks like shet inside.

[fantasticm]

From experience if someone has a negative outlook on RP based off ignorance once you try to clear up any misconception that ignorance just evolves into willful ignorance.

Well I guess it wouldn't be a real forum without some brainlets running about.

Anyway I lock my houses only when they're unfinished. Otherwise they're always open. I also don't care if strangers decide they want to use them for RP (unless I need to use it for RP at the same time, of course).

[Madbunny]

So happy to see people who i didnt mention felt i called them out. Speaks volume.

[Meraii]

I do not lock my homes and because of this when I was decorating my apartment with a friend over who was chatting away as I moved stuff around, a random stranger ported in and was really embarassed to have been caught snooping.
I did not mind though.

I think the only reason I would lock my home is if it were empty and expecting to stay that way for a period of time.

[LadyKairi]

The only time I locked my house/ apartment/ private room is when I wasn’t done decorating, or I was trying to avoid certain people. My apartment will always stay unlocked, though. I made it a cafe, and I WANT people to go there hehe.

[Elamys]

Reasons to hate RP?

Well, like Sashazor said, most serious RPers turn off emote messages in chat...so if you're seeing someone spamming like that, they're probably not actually roleplaying. Spamming an emote 50 times in a row isn't exactly roleplay.

Spam in /s isn't much of a problem unless you're in a highly populated RP area like the Quicksand. Unless someone talking in /s in general offends you, since you said you immediately blist anyone that talks in there, so that's less a problem you have with roleplayers and more with a dislike of people not having conversations in chats you approve of? If this is a problem to you, you can filter out /s entirely, or make a separate chat window for it.

Both RPers and non-RPers read things in dungeons, but I never see anyone stop to read that stuff anyways. But it's not like it's against the rules to read those. A polite "hey, you can read those later if you like" would probably help the problem.

I have never ONCE seen an RPer try to RP their way through a random dungeon by talking in /s or doing custom emotes or walking. Not in ANY MMO, and I've been playing MMOs for 13 years now. People keep bringing this up as if it happens all the time and I have never, ever, not once in my lifetime, seen it happen. So if it happened to you...sorry, but it's definitely not the norm.

It sounds like your problems are less with roleplayers and more with discourteous players in general.

I think it's relatively rare, I never had it happen to me and I'm in the RP server.

I have a friend also on Balmung who has caught ERPers in her house. What I notice about her house is that it has a secluded spa-like area in the basement. I bet something like that is pretty much a magnet for it. I've never even seen a random person in my yard.

[Claviusnex]

I lock mine when I run into other players inside doing things like sleeping in the bed or going AFK on the couch. When that happens I lock it for a while to force a change in their habits.

[Elamys]

I lock mine when I run into other players inside doing things like sleeping in the bed or going AFK on the couch. When that happens I lock it for a while to force a change in their habits.

I locked my FC room for a bit because I had an FC mate AFK on the counter in the room while I was decorating for 12 hours. We need an option to kick people out lol.