SE, please designate a Role Play friendly server!

[elreed]

I voted for OP's post. Not because I support RPers, but because I support congregating as many of them away from me as possible.

LOL same for me

[RolandDebreton]

While not an RPer, I don't begrudge anyone chatting and using the emotes and chats. I'm baffled that people would actually make statements like the one below.

alot of them dont use any courtesy when doing it is one reason that comes to mind
standing in the most populated area in town so everyone can see them doing it even if it annoys the hell out of everyone seeing them talk and emote for pages on pages on pages

The nerve of them, using the normal chat features and emotes, what do they think this is, some kind of massive multiplayer role playing game? As some have pointed out people can fill the chats, and the shouts with obscenity riddled soliloquies, /pose and do repeated miquo'te stretches (which makes quite an emote sound) in an attempt to be offensive or to mimic PDA, talk about politics, sports, sex, whatever for hours. God forbid someone have fun and tell a fantasy story as a group.

I know you RPers seem to want to have your own server, but I for one think it would be a tragedy if all the imagination and fun of an exciting group of people were lost to one place and not allowed to be shared with multiple people.

I would not be upset if Besaid and Rabanastre were merged, good luck to you all regardless.

[DrekeLamorte]

(All this + what ^^^^ this guy said.)

Unofficial RP servers are in the best interest of the community.

The RP community is stagnant. The same few groups, are doing the same couple of things the do every night. (try to take ov- anyways..) You have tavern RP, kidnappings, training and preparing for the Garlean invasion, harems/dating RP, and Amnesia. It's old. This is why I think it would be best for the servers to make up a mix of everyone, regardless of their stance on RP.

Let's face it. On RP, love it, hate it, but admit that you love to hate it and hate to love it. RPers get bored with the same IC shells being reclusive and not interacting with other RPers on a large scope. If not for the mixed population of both sides, then it would be a very lonely server.

Being ostracized by raging peni who have only ever learned how to discriminate and condemn people who are different to them for whatever depressing family history they have is fun. Admit it. You may not like it, but the conversations and drama that springs up between the 2 communities is effective at getting attention, and never shy of flare. Plus, people like thevedis, who trolllololol, well they get /blisted, and then the only damage they can do, is to their reputation. (Well you could also /emote motion over and over and over and over, until they leave. But just remember that you can get banned for that, and people have.)

Another thing to note. Lots of RPers are not terrible gamers. They are in it for the dynamic collaboration of writing literature. I don't do it to get my epeen off. I am not my character. He is himself, and things he says and does are ever so slightly influenced by my personal experiences, but not entirely. I can disagree with Ceres.

RPing isn't the only thing we do, we take breaks. Pretty similar to how people run Iffy/Moggle 18 times one night, and then take a break from it.

RPers are gamers first. We need to be able to just drop out of character and hang out with friends, or whomever, and get stuff done.

Dreke >> ((and not like this)) but like this.

If we were segregated, it would be exactly like it is on Besaid now. Haters openly berating any RP that goes on(sometimes completely justified because some kids are retarded, just saiyan.) and RPers keeping to themselves and not branching out.

[Agoven]

Clearly you all need to play a game like .Hack or watch the anime to see what RPing is all about.

It's not mere chatting or emotes. It's taking on a character role and being part of the world. People who just randomly shout chat and emote like crazy clearly are not true RPers.

In a game world absent of NPCs the RPers fill the void and expand the lore and game world.

[Hayden]

Honestly I hope the trolling never ends. Why? This thread would have never picked up and gone as far as it had with out those who troll. It has caused this thread to pick up steam and thrive, which gives us our best hope of gaining Dev or Mod attention(which I sort of think is a lost cause by this point as Yoshi has released his revised plan for server merge and I doubt we'll see anything else on it).

As for the REASON? I dun know...Haters gonna hate?

I'm willing to just blame it on this community as a whole. I hate to say it but this community is not the nicest nor the most co operative. I mean not the FFXIV community but the FFXIV Lodestone community. You post here that an apple is a fruit and you'll have fifty people screaming bloody murder on you for it. Just the way it is. The opinions expressed by the few members of a few Besaid Link Shells here does NOT reflect the opinions of Besaid as a whole. The RP community and the rest of Besaid get along just fine with little to NO problem at all. Thevedis and Brigander are of a slim minority.

[Rhomagus]

...The same few groups, are doing the same couple of things the do every night....

...Pinky. Try to take over the WORLD!

I'm sorry. Every time I see the phrase "the same thing [we] do every night.", my mind finishes the sentence.

I liked your post by the way. Not trying to troll it or anything.

[Quesse]

caused this thread to pick up steam and thrive

I don't think this is the best example of a thriving thread.

[OskarHelvig]

RPers are gamers first. We need to be able to just drop out of character and hang out with friends, or whomever, and get stuff done.

That just sounds like Light RP to me, which would be perfectly fine on an RP server. In fact that whole post confuses the hell out of me because it's so contradictory and all over the place. This isn't the tread to argue about the goings on in the Besaid RP community currently, but if you brought that up to support your point that unofficial RP server is the way to go, then it seems you're complaining about the way RP is, on the type of server you yourself deem as ideal. The rest of the post seems to be misguided, based on the premise that in an RP server you have to be IC all the time, or that there would be ONLY RPers playing, which was explained a dozen times by now that it would never be the case.

[Wulf]

I picked Besaid because I liked FF10. It was the first FF I've played.

Little did I know that Besaid was intended to be the RP server for all these people.

I don't hate it. It's just really awkward to see people doing it. Can't they just do it inside a LS? I don't need to know that you're some mass murderer from a foreign land, nor do I need to know that you lust for a Miqo'te.



...Do I need to say more?

[Lauro]

Please put a number on the server for RP so our linkshell can avoid that server