Re: Roleplaying in the Game

[Iscah]

I like to dress the part of my job, use emotes to display my desires and emotions in parties, and I generally speak from my character's point of view in content so I guess I role-play but that is about the extent of it.

I don't "speak in character" but otherwise, I do that too.

I also like to emote at NPCs or locations when it seems appropriate. Bowing to important people, 'paying respects' to the dead.... it just feels right for the story and my character.

(A lot of extra dialogue goes on in my head as well, anything from talking to shopkeepers to important emotional moments.)

[Tridus]

Also glad to see Tridus and Moro responses. Don't be too surprised if you see a lalafell in your neck of the woods.

If you find yourself in our neck of the woods, hit us up on discord. We've got a little group of forum folks who run stuff together sometimes via cross world groups and would love to add you.

[Kacho_Nacho]

If you find yourself in our neck of the woods, hit us up on discord. We've got a little group of forum folks who run stuff together sometimes via cross world groups and would love to add you.

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YES!



I mean, yes. I'd love to join you on Discord and run with a group of forum goers. Um, is my level okay?

[Tridus]

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YES!



I mean, yes. I'd love to join you on Discord and run with a group of forum goers. Um, is my level okay?

When we do stuff that you can do at your level (like roulettes), we'd love to have you. Send me a friend request and I'll get you onto the server where we organize stuff. Last night we did a full team of 8 on Sigmascape and got everyone's loot for the week, so now we can do other stuff.

Discord: Tridus#2642

[Khalithar]

After the free transfers the amount of rpers sky rocketed, a lot of them left but there are still tons left over. It’s looking like there will be several houses reclaimed once enough time elapses.

[Lord_Zlatan]

I have macros set for each class for when I am in dungeons. As a PLD, for example, I start a dungeon by saying the Night's Watch oath. If people respond, then I continue with the RP. Most people seam to be into it, but from time to time either no one responds or they say no RP please and Ill just stop. I have different text macros for different abilities, as well as when the dungeon ends. I find PLD to be the easiest (and albeit most basic) class to RP as. but thats just my .02.

I tend to only be able to do this in dungeons as there is really no RP community on Famfrit. I do the basics tho... emoting appropriately to NPC/PCs, kneeling to the dead, etc etc. If I catch someone examining/looking at me, I usually wink or bow, or give a quick Hail! to a friend if I see them about

[Minako_Nightsong]

I don't "speak in character" but otherwise, I do that too.

I also like to emote at NPCs or locations when it seems appropriate. Bowing to important people, 'paying respects' to the dead.... it just feels right for the story and my character.

(A lot of extra dialogue goes on in my head as well, anything from talking to shopkeepers to important emotional moments.)

Recently I added a mender to my house who will do an eastern bow every time I pass her. I feel obligated to bow in return every time and it's pretty funny because she bows a lot!

[RoroCookies]

When we do stuff that you can do at your level (like roulettes), we'd love to have you. Send me a friend request and I'll get you onto the server where we organize stuff. Last night we did a full team of 8 on Sigmascape and got everyone's loot for the week, so now we can do other stuff.

Discord: Tridus#2642

I normally like to lurk on here but seeing that you are from Cactuar and rp I was wondering if I can get in on this too. I've joined one rp linkshell there but they are in the process of rebuilding everything so I haven't gotten to involved with them yet. I'm working on my character's bio and stuff so I would love to put it to use sometime!

[Rhysati]

I wanted to try my hand at RP and first I tried with an alt in Mateus, then I did an alt in Balmung and let me tell you, the difference is huge, not just because Balmung is considerably bigger, but the quality of RP I witnessed was totally different. I'm not talking bad about people in Mateus, I wasn't there for too long, but Balmung convinced me to move also my main character there. Of course there's weirdos like everywhere, but hey, just stay away from the Quicksand and you are okay! (or from Ul'dah in general lol)

I think this likely comes down to a number of factors beyond population. Population is certainly relevant as the larger the pool, the more likely you are to find quality people within it. But beyond this, I noticed a few things when Balmung locked and people started to transfer off to Mateus: One is that most of the well-established, high-quality RPers stayed. Most likely because they had built up friendships within the community, had a house/FC that they liked, and felt like leaving the community would be crazy.

The second thing I noticed in heavy amounts was that a lot of the people that transferred off to Mateus seemed to have issues on Balmung. Either problems with some of the people on it, bad blood, or whatever else. I'm not even remotely saying that Mateus only has problem-folks on it(I've rolled a toon there even), but it's a factor. When Balmung locked every person that decided to leave for Mateus in my FC were people that were causing drama and weren't happy and/or were looking for a fresh start.

So I think you have a lot of different factors for a lot of different people that might make it different from Balmung. Most importantly in my opinion is that Balmung has always been the 'main RP server' and that tends to be where your more hardcore roleplayers gather. Same can be said for just about every MMO to date when it has come to the RP community.

[Tridus]

I normally like to lurk on here but seeing that you are from Cactuar and rp I was wondering if I can get in on this too. I've joined one rp linkshell there but they are in the process of rebuilding everything so I haven't gotten to involved with them yet. I'm working on my character's bio and stuff so I would love to put it to use sometime!

The discord thing is for forum folks who like to run dungeons and such together, but you're totally welcome to add me to try and RP sometime. (It ended up in this thread just as a quirk of how the conversation went.)