Abuse of the TOS. Loophole regarding griefing/trolling. Needs a solution.

[Gwenorai]

From what I've seen in other MMOs such as SWTOR and ESO, the short text and the like should be done in say, etc, this gets people interested. But the large text prompts should not be used through say because with the size of the text box and all that, it pushes the entire chat upwards. This is why people hate it when folks constantly post FC advertisements. It's not a lack of common courtesy, on my behalf - it's something where large text prompts for RP should not be used through say. From what I gathered from the usage of the RP tag is that you can see certain people who are interested in RP and can message them directly. That's honestly what I thought it was for.

It's not next-level thinking. Thankfully I am not on an RP server, however in SWTOR and ESO the first thing I do is make specific chats that filter this out because people will write large paragraphs and throw it into say. I personally find that inconsiderate. Just like you think me not liking it is lacking common courtesy and or empathy. Unless I'm reading what you're saying incorrectly if so, I apologise as text sadly doesn't have tone.

Of course, you're going to get people who don't do this and thus start acting like gits when they see RP pushing their chat upwards, or they're just there to ruin your day. Either way, I don't see why it matters why me wondering why folks don't use party/LS to do this - I honestly think it's much better than using say because then it's not broadcasted publically and people can be added into the party/LS to enjoy RPing without having people looking in. Shrug.

Finally, as it has occurred to me that you are using sarcasm, tsk. You can't use the defence of a social game when the chat is completely dominated by people using large text prompts - I'm talking about multiple lines of text one after with the use of say that pushes all of the other social aspects of the game upwards, such as FC, Party, Tell, etc. Thankfully say is proximity-based, least they're not doing it in Yell/Shout.

[Gula]

From what I've seen in other MMOs such as SWTOR and ESO-

Sorry, gonna have to stop you there with a very simple, this is FFXIV. Not other mmos, nor SWTOR or ESO. There is obviously logic shared between by being of the same genre, but if I walk into a hub and see 80% of players with an RP tag on, I think it's fair to assume I shouldn't hang around if I don't want to see RP in my chat log. It's also fair to go in and not be aware of Balmung or Mateus. Mateus didn't start as an RP centric world after all. But there's Limsa and Gridania with all the nice city-state functions and bonuses. No one should get upset because someone is doing something they don't like in a specific location where there's options.

It's a 2 way street here and the traffic is in favor of RP.

[Gwenorai]

Sorry, gonna have to stop you there with a very simple, this is FFXIV. Not other mmos, nor SWTOR or ESO. There is obviously logic shared between by being of the same genre, but if I walk into a hub and see 80% of players with an RP tag on, I think it's fair to assume I shouldn't hang around if I don't want to see RP in my chat log. It's also fair to go in and not be aware of Balmung or Mateus. Mateus didn't start as an RP centric world after all. But there's Limsa and Gridania with all the nice city-state functions and bonuses. No one should get upset because someone is doing something they don't like in a specific location where there's options.

It's a 2 way street here and the traffic is in favor of RP.

I did say this; 'people think the same, but hey, at least people should expect this on Balmung' - it's expected on these servers. People who join them know they're getting into and I'm pretty sure they have their chat settings edited to be quite comfy with it. I still don't see how it's inconsiderate of me for not liking people using say to write large pieces of RP, and not the more common one/two-liner. I also said that I adjusted my chat accordingly so I don't have to see this and that I don't go after people. I was simply stating that I find it irritating, and others possibly do as well and thus they use this to target people.

Note, you can also see that I didn't tell people to stop doing it. I just asked why weren't they using party/LS for it- that was it. You gave me an answer, that's good enough for me. Smh

And of course, this is going off-topic from the whole issue OP put forward because I don't like the use of say being used to host consistent paragraphs. So I'm going to leave it here, feel free to respond - etc. I however probably won't respond back.