Re: Roleplaying in the Game

[Aronys]

Well, Balmung is the biggest RP server on Aether, with Mateus in second place. Right now you may sneak a character onto Balmung as they lifted the blockade, but do try other servers as well. You may like a small RP community over a large one.

[Rosentretter]

I wanted to try my hand at RP and first I tried with an alt in Mateus, then I did an alt in Balmung and let me tell you, the difference is huge, not just because Balmung is considerably bigger, but the quality of RP I witnessed was totally different. I'm not talking bad about people in Mateus, I wasn't there for too long, but Balmung convinced me to move also my main character there. Of course there's weirdos like everywhere, but hey, just stay away from the Quicksand and you are okay! (or from Ul'dah in general lol)

[Rhysati]

I wanted to try my hand at RP and first I tried with an alt in Mateus, then I did an alt in Balmung and let me tell you, the difference is huge, not just because Balmung is considerably bigger, but the quality of RP I witnessed was totally different. I'm not talking bad about people in Mateus, I wasn't there for too long, but Balmung convinced me to move also my main character there. Of course there's weirdos like everywhere, but hey, just stay away from the Quicksand and you are okay! (or from Ul'dah in general lol)

I think this likely comes down to a number of factors beyond population. Population is certainly relevant as the larger the pool, the more likely you are to find quality people within it. But beyond this, I noticed a few things when Balmung locked and people started to transfer off to Mateus: One is that most of the well-established, high-quality RPers stayed. Most likely because they had built up friendships within the community, had a house/FC that they liked, and felt like leaving the community would be crazy.

The second thing I noticed in heavy amounts was that a lot of the people that transferred off to Mateus seemed to have issues on Balmung. Either problems with some of the people on it, bad blood, or whatever else. I'm not even remotely saying that Mateus only has problem-folks on it(I've rolled a toon there even), but it's a factor. When Balmung locked every person that decided to leave for Mateus in my FC were people that were causing drama and weren't happy and/or were looking for a fresh start.

So I think you have a lot of different factors for a lot of different people that might make it different from Balmung. Most importantly in my opinion is that Balmung has always been the 'main RP server' and that tends to be where your more hardcore roleplayers gather. Same can be said for just about every MMO to date when it has come to the RP community.