Rp server help

[SummerSkye]

But can't you just be yourself and have nice conversations? I mean, it's still you when you communicate with others. @.@

I have to agree with this. RP is a foreign concept to me. When you pretend to be something you are not in a video game, it is still YOU behind the keyboard pretending to be something you are not. No disrespect...to each their own, I suppose. I log in and say hello to my free company...but it is ME saying hello to the players behind the characters.

[mirta000]

RP is a foreign concept to me. When you pretend to be something you are not in a video game, it is still YOU behind the keyboard pretending to be something you are not.

It has a certain joy tied to trying to speak differently even. Not to mention the nice in game events, like "let's populate an inn one day and act out a party!", if it's not your thing it gets hard to understand, but it does carry certain joy to merge with the world that you're in.

Heck some people even live their lives as half-RP without RP-ing. Like one of my friends on our forums that decided based on appearance that his character will like/ dislike certain things and in all MMOs that he's in, he follows that trail of thought. It's not him not enjoying certain professions or classes, but rather deeming some professions and classes unfitting for the character that he created.

[SummerSkye]

if it's not your thing it gets hard to understand, but it does carry certain joy to merge with the world that you're in.

I agree 100% with you when you say it is hard for non-roleplayers to understand. I respect you and every aspect of what you do with your time in game. That being said, I find it impossible to even try to "merge" with the world that I am in when I am playing a video game. I have heard people speak of immersion and such, but it is hard for me, personally to immerse myself into a "world" where a phone call, a knock at the door, or a simple glance away from my screen reminds me that the game is simply a game on a screen. A set of pixels that are fleeting, at best. I would rather get to know and talk to the PLAYERS that I am playing with and enjoying than some made up character in a made up world.

Again...just a non-roleplayer perspective.