Quote Originally Posted by gahoo View Post
Oskar Helvig: while I know you are certainly familiar with gamerescape and our wiki, just in case you hadn't seen, we've managed to compile a great deal of the dialogue from the sidequests. See the Plot Details category. Not to say that your specific questions will be answered, but for all the RPGers out there, there is quite a bit of lore in these sidequests.
Thanks for the link and info, the wiki is a great tool. That said, SE should still be able to offer lore freely without the players going in there and forming a network/wiki, and literally copy/pasting whatever tidbits there are in quests. I am glad that people have done that, as I could read through at my leisure.

Quote Originally Posted by Atoli
We already know much about the answers to question 1-3 just from talking to many NPCs in Eorzea, which should be obligatory to any roleplayer who wants to know more about the world his or her character is going to live in.
I don't want the lore to be handed to me on a silver platter, thank you.
Aside from the condescending tone, I disagree with you pretty much throughout your post. Just to clarify once more, as mentioned in the OP these questions do not belong only to myself, but rather certain individuals in the RP community. I think that such basic questions /should/ be handed to us on a silver platter. It's unreasonable to expect someone to play though most of the game's content and only THEN form a comprehensive character concept. A RPer should be able to read about the lore details before even rolling a character, in order to make a decision on what kind of race/clan/religion/city state/etc they should be from. The other major concern of the RP community is that the answers are not always clear. For example, a quest might mention something in passing, but we are left to wonder if that bit of info applies to everything or just that specific situation. This is why clear answers from SE are needed.

Quote Originally Posted by Atoli
About 7...I totally disagree with you.
Especially as a role player you should be bound to your character and play through every situation.
We also can have just as many characters as we want and pay for only one, because we pay only for the one "active".
So if you really get bored of one character you made (which is poor design, btw) you can just switch to another one after a month.
Just my personal opinion though.
Again, do not disagree with /me/ since I didn't ask the question, disagree with the question. The reason why someone may wish to have multiple characters is not to play them as mains, but rather as stand ins for story purposes. Other people just do not wish to RP a single character, and I don't think it's fair for you to tell them how they aught to play in order to enjoy their game time. In most cases though, multiple characters are needed to play out a story in a way that's more believable. You can RP with an empty space as I describe a side character to you, or you can actually see the model and interact with it, which do you think is better?

Let's grow wiser, curb our ignorance, and also...

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