Why cant we get a dedicated RP server?

[alimdia]

I still dont get the logic why some of you people think adding a RP label will fix anything. If they added that label to Balmung non-rp players aren't gonna leave, the server will remain as it is, the only thing gained is increased harassment to RPers in non RP servers and increased harassment to non RPers in Balmung. Another thing is they don't want to create special rules for RP servers.

All I see is big cons, no pros.

[basketofseals]

I still dont get the logic why some of you people think adding a RP label will fix anything. If they added that label to Balmung non-rp players aren't gonna leave, the server will remain as it is, the only thing gained is increased harassment to RPers in non RP servers and increased harassment to non RPers in Balmung. Another thing is they don't want to create special rules for RP servers.

All I see is big cons, no pros.

The point is to efficiently funnel newer players into selected servers. Balmung NEVER would have become the bloated mass it is currently if they had bothered to label two or three servers as designated RP ones. Since there's no official tagging, everyone just got told that Balmung was the RP server. If you wanted to RP, you should go to that server and not look at any others. If Mateus and maybe another server were officially designated RP servers, then newer players(or ones that are just fed up with Balmung things) could start a healthy RP community there.

WoW has plenty of RP servers, and yes there is a Balmung among them, but there's healthy RP communities spread among all of the other RP servers too.

Saying it will increase harassment is just fear-mongering. Jerks will be jerks. There's nothing inherent about RP that will trigger some kind of latent toxic personality in an average person. Report/ignore them and move on.

[Vivi_Bushido]

I personally never realized how big the RPC is across the bored. Balmung is still locked and Mateus is already getting locked to character creation. Soon both unofficial RP servers will be locked. At this rate, we might need a third unofficial server. An official server would be way to over populated.

[reiichi]

I personally never realized how big the RPC is across the bored. Balmung is still locked and Mateus is already getting locked to character creation. Soon both unofficial RP servers will be locked. At this rate, we might need a third unofficial server. An official server would be way to over populated.

Most RPers don't even make use of the RPC all to much anymore, which kinda makes me sad as a staff member there. It's honestly nothing like it was in 2014-2015 where there was tons of activity (and tons of drama, like any place RPers tend to amass). Most have kinda clustered around tumblr's see-no-evil-curated-follows-only design and private discord servers.

...it probably wouldn't hurt to see another server start taking on the task of directing new/transferring RPers to their server. From at least the RPC's perspective, I'd want to say that's Jenova, since they have the next largest amount of FC/LS listings after Balmung > Mateus > Omega.

[Rhysati]

What's most frustrating is that tons of people left Balmung and yet no change to access for the server. So now there are a multitude of issues:

Firstly, the RP community is dwindling fast. Recruiting for a RP FC is like pulling teeth as there is no fresh blood. I've gone to three different FCs and I run into the same people hanging out with every one of them. That isn't conducive to activity or growth.

Secondly, with no ability to have our friends come play with us, there is no reason for me to try to get new players to buy the game and give it a try. I have tons of people I think would love the game, but I'm not going to talk them into trying it out when they can't play with me.

Third, the overall community on Balmung as a whole is crumbling with most people's friends lists turning into ghost towns. And yet the doors don't open because those people didn't transfer off. They simply quit playing. Considering we haven't had a queue at all since a couple days after they locked the server down, it would be lovely if we could have people joining again.

But, most importantly I would LOVE if they made an official RP server. The moment they do that I think you'd have the RPers of Balmung and perhaps others jump ship to be in a solid community that will, hopefully, not end with the place getting shut down again. Having a soft cap on the population with the server locked with a queue is one thing. Flat out refusing to let people in is madness. Especially when we can't even make alts there.

[worldofneil]

Having a soft cap on the population with the server locked with a queue is one thing. Flat out refusing to let people in is madness.

They did had a softcap on Balmung already, for a long time you couldn't create characters there, but you could still transfer across. Over time so many people did that it got to the mess it is now, forcing SE to lock it completely.

They can't keep letting people on, there are software/hardware limitations. SE have made incentives/free transfers to other servers available, over time the population will decrease and then they'll open it again. They're probably waiting for it to get considerably lower to try and minimise the chance of them opening it, everyone flocking to it, and them having to instantly close it again.

If SE made an official RP server, everyone would just jump to that and within days that would also be locked and we'd hear nothing but complaints from people that their friends transferred already and they can't get on to join them.

[Jijifli]

[QUOTE=Rhysati;4545409Third, the overall community on Balmung as a whole is crumbling with most people's friends lists turning into ghost towns. And yet the doors don't open because those people didn't transfer off. They simply quit playing. Considering we haven't had a queue at all since a couple days after they locked the server down, it would be lovely if we could have people joining again.[/QUOTE]

People quitting entirely helps to get it unlocked too. You don't have to transfer.

In case you didn't know, Balmung is the NA server with the least amount of created characters. If it was about how many characters exist we'd be dead last. It's locked because our server activity is the highest. Basically, when people make a character on Balmung, they usually play it, unlike making 8 on Goblin and then ignoring them entirely.

[basketofseals]

People quitting entirely helps to get it unlocked too. You don't have to transfer.

In case you didn't know, Balmung is the NA server with the least amount of created characters. If it was about how many characters exist we'd be dead last. It's locked because our server activity is the highest. Basically, when people make a character on Balmung, they usually play it, unlike making 8 on Goblin and then ignoring them entirely.

Most of that is because of bots actually. The teleport spamming bots on other servers that you see en mass run the MSQ for millions a day and then get mass deleted.

That having been said, don't let this stop you from RPing. Even if it's just running all your messages in raids through a "Jacke from the Rogue's Guild" dialect filter (which is a grand old time lemme tell ya)

Can I get a link to this?

[Mahri]

Can I get a link to this?

There isn't a specific tool for this, to my awareness. You have to do it on the fly.

Just look up old London slang and you'll be golden.

[Rokke]

I want to so bad but the MSQ kills it for me, it’s that everything is locked behind the massive grind. I’ll try to lvl an alt and get to certain points in the ARR story where I just say F it, I ain’t got time to make goblin cheese, or mess with these snow elfs and their superiority complex.

If you've got 20ish bucks to spare, it'd probably be easiest to transfer your main. Alternatively the msq skip potions cost 18 (skips to HW) and 25 (skips to SB). MSQ can be painful, I got one for my newest alt just to avoid 2.x's molasses paced story *_*