Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[BunniEclair]

In the case of ERP/RP venues I honestly prefer the PF method over having to see people spam more of their huge text block ads for some brothel that all have really cliche names and say the exact same thing (courtesans! Dancing! Live music by Potato Mouse and you obviously KNOW who that is!) over and over.

I don’t RP, but I’ve found a few fun things to do in there when I was bored - namely house mazes, haunted houses around halloween, stuff like that. And the Dev team seems to want to encourage RP to some degree, so if not PF, they should give RPers a functional way to communicate in game. Fellowships could be good for that if they expanded on the features. As it is now, it’s miserable to navigate and too small scale.

It’s the selling clears (and feet pics???) that I’m shocked aren’t taken down.

[hydralus]

In the case of ERP/RP venues I honestly prefer the PF method over having to see people spam more of their huge text block ads

In my experience they spammed shout chat regardless. And at some point the dutyfinder adverts were getting ridiculous. You shouldn't need 2 advertisements for the same place/event up at the same time, let alone the 4 or 5 I'd see some days. Then you get 4 or 5 places doing the same thing competing with each other and you've got a big mess.

But the GM wasn't arguing against the spammy nature of it so that's kind've an aside.

[Aslae]

In my experience they spammed shout chat regardless. And at some point the dutyfinder adverts were getting ridiculous. You shouldn't need 2 advertisements for the same place/event up at the same time, let alone the 4 or 5 I'd see some days. Then you get 4 or 5 places doing the same thing competing with each other and you've got a big mess.

But the GM wasn't arguing against the spammy nature of it so that's kind've an aside.

But you're forgetting something. I don't advertise in cities because I advertise in pf. And I'm sure many others are the same. If we all suddenly have to shouting in limsa to advertise our venues, that's going to be a lot of shouts. not even necessarily spam, just a lot of different venues shouting. It's not a feasible option. That's obnoxious and I don't want to have to do that.

[hydralus]

But you're forgetting something. I don't advertise in cities because I advertise in pf. And I'm sure many others are the same. If we all suddenly have to shouting in limsa to advertise our venues, that's going to be a lot of shouts. not even necessarily spam, just a lot of different venues shouting. It's not a feasible option. That's obnoxious and I don't want to have to do that.

... I didn't forget it? I said right there, "In my experience they used shout chat regardless". Maybe you didn't, but LOTS did.

And I didn't even say anything about removing it. Just that you don't need more than 1 advertisement up in the PF at any time other than to be desperate for attention.

[Aslae]

... I didn't forget it? I said right there, "In my experience they used shout chat regardless". Maybe you didn't, but LOTS did.

And I didn't even say anything about removing it. Just that you don't need more than 1 advertisement up in the PF at any time other than to be desperate for attention.

I must have misunderstood what you said then. I was just saying, there will be even MORE now. But I agree, that you shouldn't need to advertise the same place more than once.

[Shuhannazy]

Yeah, we had that issue on aether with some places putting up like 4-5 pf's so we asked them as a community to stop. Having some level of self-regulation in the communities is helpful. But being from balmung i would see how that would be annoying for yall.

[Risvertasashi]

Yeah, we had that issue on aether with some places putting up like 4-5 pf's so we asked them as a community to stop. Having some level of self-regulation in the communities is helpful. But being from balmung i would see how that would be annoying for yall.

Run sellers do this sometimes too... Yet they seem to be crackin' on happily with nary a word from the GMs.

And, of course, they use the 50/60/70 roulette option so they're always right in your face when you open the PF.

[Shuhannazy]

Run sellers do this sometimes too... Yet they seem to be crackin' on happily with nary a word from the GMs.

And, of course, they use the 50/60/70 roulette option so they're always right in your face when you open the PF.

yeah, imagine being a gm and not seeing any of that but seeing the rp stuff AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE wow lol

[Britha]

In my experience they spammed shout chat regardless. And at some point the dutyfinder adverts were getting ridiculous. You shouldn't need 2 advertisements for the same place/event up at the same time, let alone the 4 or 5 I'd see some days. Then you get 4 or 5 places doing the same thing competing with each other and you've got a big mess.

But the GM wasn't arguing against the spammy nature of it so that's kind've an aside.

You had to actively look in the "Other" tab to even see them so I'm not sure how they could be considered spammy honestly. Unlike clear sellers and weird feet pic advertisements which you see, no matter what, every single day just for opening the PF. They are all right there in a big list all the time in your face.

[hydralus]

You had to actively look in the "Other" tab to even see them so I'm not sure how they could be considered spammy honestly. Unlike clear sellers and weird feet pic advertisements which you see, no matter what, every single day just for opening the PF. They are all right there in a big list all the time in your face.

It makes it more difficult to parse through events/advertisements when there are several venues advertising the same thing at the same time. It's simply easier on the eyes and mind to see 4 event postings for 4 events rather than 12 postings for the same events where 2 places are advertising 4 times, 1 is advertising 3 times, and the last is buried somewhere in there advertising only once.