What is ERP?

[Hazama999]

[DreadCrow]

What is ERP?

A waste of play time (IMO)

I don't what to be that person, especially since I don't ERP, but I don't think anyone with the user name lolicon can judge anyone for anything...

[DreadCrow]

She's actually on my data center... And I can be corrected if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure her venue has a lot of rules they follow. Like, they don't actually advertise on the Party Finder, don't allow lalafells, etc. I've never been to her venue since I don't ERP... But from everything I've been told about her and her FC, they are actually sort of decent people.

[Raiya]

ERP is when you take that left turn while exploring some Allagan ruin and enter "Sector 34". Suffice to say its best to back away..... slowly, and never speak of it again!

[Saefinn]

I'd say Teppie made a pretty good response. There are of course people who blur the lines of ERP and Cybersex but the concepts are different. ERP is the RP equivalent of writing erotica or erotic scenes.

For me my view when it comes to ERP and RP in general is that it should make sense for the characters and the world they are in, because I treat RP as seriously as I do writing, because to me it is writing and is a creative outlet as somebody who loves writing.

So it becomes about the character and not the writer. So to me it's more like writing a raunchy scene like in Game of Thrones. And if comes to two characters doing the deed I think you have a choice of writing it out or fading to black. But to me that's where it's place exists within the RP world.

But there are people who like erotica as a genre and may go out specifically to do that, which is fine because it's a legitimate writing genre.

But some people use it as a reason just to Cyber it up and I don't object to people doing it as long as they are consenting adults, but I don't consider it the same thing. This isn't people writing characters in a story, this is people using their character as an avatar to engage in sexual activities, but may sometimes use an RP flair (hence my comment about blurring lines). Those people are probably gonna find themselves incompatible with how I RP. But to each their own, I'm very live and let live so long as they're keeping it legal.

[Payadopa]

Just ignore the guy. They're not used to having different opinions like on reddit so everyone they don't agree with are giant trolls. Unlike reddit, people who have different opinions on these forums can't get downvoted to oblivion and hidden. This place isn't mean to be an echo chamber.

I can't believe I say this but...
...I actually agree with you. haha

[Zfz]

LOL I was wondering what Enterprise Resource Planning has got to do with FFXIV.

[Jin-]

Just ignore the guy. They're not used to having different opinions like on reddit so everyone they don't agree with are giant trolls. Unlike reddit, people who have different opinions on these forums can't get downvoted to oblivion and hidden. This place isn't mean to be an echo chamber.

Oh I tolerate you. And all the alts. Makes these dry forums fun. But try to make it less obvious to give us some challenge?

[SecretIsland]

Oh I tolerate you. And all the alts. Makes these dry forums fun. But try to make it less obvious to give us some challenge?

I have a sincere question: why do you think I'm MPK? What have I done to make you believe that I'm related to him/her? I'm genuinely very confused because this is my first interactions with the forums and I'm now being mistaken for a notorious troll for some reason. It really drains the enjoyment out of discussion for me. I feel like I'm being double trolled. MPK replies to every single one of my threads with a troll comment, and people then accuse me of being a troll as well. At this point I'm beginning to believe that you are a troll as well.

[WoW]

NO!

I have a sincere question: why do you think I'm MPK?

Someone accused me of being MPK as well. But hey, whatever floats their boat. It ain't gonna change the fact that they're trying to twist our glorious ERP into something gross.