Constant Vulgarity in Public Chat. WHY is this allowed?

[Zebraoracle]

Nightclubs =/= RP or ERP. It's clubbing, or at the very least letting your braincells rot watching some random pretend to be a DJ while getting exploited by the staff at the same time.

There's a lot that would have to be changed for me to believe that it's any form of roleplay lol. As of right now all I see is a business where "an RP experience" is used to squeeze money out of patrons.

It's *technically* RP when the staff assume the role of a staff member and play as that character... but in the venues I've visited, that's a very small percent of the interactions going on.

Maybe I'm just spoiled coming from D&D, I dunno.

[Fhaerron]

Live and let live.

I don't really see any issue myself with those adds. What I do find annoying is when somebody decides to spam it every 5 seconds.

It would be nice if SE would finally update the dated 90's chat system in this game and allow us to create extra tabs but also add something like a LFM (Looking For More) for RP activities, and also dedicated recruitment channels for statics, FC's, RP stuff, etc.
And have it accessible from wherever you are in the game world.

[Wyssahtyn]

greatly increasing the blacklist size limit would be good as well.

actually, just fixing the blacklist in general would be nice. pretty sure you still can't add people to it unless you do it from the chat log. so nice of world visit to break that function.

[LianaThorne]

It's *technically* RP when the staff assume the role of a staff member and play as that character... but in the venues I've visited, that's a very small percent of the interactions going on.

Maybe I'm just spoiled coming from D&D, I dunno.

They're getting paid, it's a job. AFAIK, roleplay isn't supposed to come with financial gain.

Do you get paid to play D&D? Or do you do it for the fun?

[LianaThorne]

Most of the people you listed are people who work solo, photographer takes pics alone, omnicarfter/gatherer does their thing alone, same for people selling it - its one person selling it. Clubs usually consist of multiple people, just like FCs, so its normal those advertise more, since ultimately every person is entitled to advertise their thing.

I do the same with housing designs, I advertise, and I have my assistant do the same after 30 minutes when I start, for more exposure.

Thank you for contributing to the spam problem.
Side note, there are teams of people who do bulk orders for new raid gear and the same goes for gatherers, especially near patch days. You don't see them double-posting ads. So, I'm sorry just because you have someone working for you doesn't give you the right to spam ads. It's your business, you advertise. Let them do what they're there for, which is to help you decorate.

[Renalt]

They're getting paid, it's a job. AFAIK, roleplay isn't supposed to come with financial gain.

Do you get paid to play D&D? Or do you do it for the fun?

Yeah actually some people do get paid to play DnD. People will actually pay for really good and established DMs.

[LianaThorne]

Yeah actually some people do get paid to play DnD. People will actually pay for really good and established DMs.

Then it's a job. Lol.

[Midareyukki]

It's *technically* RP when the staff assume the role of a staff member and play as that character... but in the venues I've visited, that's a very small percent of the interactions going on.

Maybe I'm just spoiled coming from D&D, I dunno.

You're not. That's how I expected roleplaying to go, and how I figured it was based on seeing peoples' profiles on the RP wiki back in 2017.
The issue is that venues nowadays just don't bother doing that, and it feels like if you want any of it, you need to go on Balmung. It's already hard to do that as it is because it's constantly congested. It's even worse if you're from another Datacenter, bc then you need an alt to visit x,x

They're getting paid, it's a job. AFAIK, roleplay isn't supposed to come with financial gain.

Do you get paid to play D&D? Or do you do it for the fun?

Yes. Sometimes. I got paid at the venue I worked at and it was the traditional roleplaying thing. We did have background music on but it was soft jazz to set the mood. People still had to interact with us to get anything out of it. Not everyone wanted to, and that was fine, we left them to sit and take in the scenery. But the whole point of it was to interact and specifically engage with the staff and the lore they prepared for you.
At the end of the day, they still paid for drinks and food, and we'd get a cut.

Now, if you want to strictly speaking only restrict it to DnD itself? I'd say it depends? If my character wanted to work at a bar, they'd be paid. Obviously not the player, but FF14 and DnD aren't the same. Only the interactions during roleplaying are similar. Meaning yes, you can get paid on both, the application is just different.

Yeah actually some people do get paid to play DnD. People will actually pay for really good and established DMs.

Wait, really?? People get paid IRL to DM and be a player in a campaign?

[Renalt]

Wait, really?? People get paid IRL to DM and be a player in a campaign?

Like 99.5% of the time they are paid to DM. Some are well established in Discord based DnD groups where they play strictly online. Those DMs are paid because they are known for making really good established worlds and word gets around.

I wanna say Roll20 is also another site that people go to find groups for online sessions.

[Zebraoracle]

Wait, really?? People get paid IRL to DM and be a player in a campaign?

Yeah man, and boy I'd love to be able to experience a DM like that, but I'm not paying to play D&D unfortunately.

I just really love RP and it makes me sad how diluted it is in 14.