SE, please designate a Role Play friendly server!

[Eldaena]

It seemed a lot of players were saying server 9 was going to be the rp server. Not sure though.

[OskarHelvig]

if you read alot of what Yoshi has said, hes leaving it up to the players to do so, if RPists care about having a server for themselves, they will band together and decide what that server is

Can you bring up a quote where he said this? Because I provided a direct quote from him in the OP which seems to contradict this.

Yoshida: We do recognize a need to set up a designated roleplaying world. We will look into this in a proactive manner!

We being SE. Bold added for emphasis.

[Brigandier]

All endgame LS's are populated by guys pretending to be girls who cyber their guild leader for loot. DISCUSS!

Was that the only line you could quote and say something witty against? 2/10

[Verence]

I think you may have missed the point. RPers are not an organization, or really any unitary body. It's a bunch of people who happen to have a common interest. Just like every other group you never hear people whine about. You may as well complain about those darn people who fight Ifrit all the time, spamming up the shout channel with their party requests.

[OskarHelvig]

While the discussion regarding interaction between Role Players and non-Role Players is valid and rare, it's a bit off topic. If you'd like to discuss it further, create another thread for it.

I'd like to keep the focus here on getting an answer from SE!

[Aysun]

1) There is currently a petition for an RP server, if they announce an RP server select it!

2) If there is no RP server, and they announce server names; choose BESAID no matter what number it is.

3) If they do not show names, pick server 9

That's all I can say really. It works brilliantly. I'll explain my reasons for not thinking the label of rp server is necessary in another post xd bedtime.

[Brigandier]

I think you may have missed the point. RPers are not an organization, or really any unitary body. It's a bunch of people who happen to have a common interest. Just like every other group you never hear people whine about. You may as well complain about those darn people who fight Ifrit all the time, spamming up the shout channel with their party requests.

Ifrit shouts are different as there is no other way to get people together sans the search feature that nobody uses as of yet, else people would complain about that too. Just look at how people get bitched at on FFXI for shouting in Jeuno for an EXP party. I won't go any further into it cause the suggestion that they are even remotely related is just stupid.

Okay, so you're not an organization or group, just a load of people who want to RP together. That's no problem. I'm sure 90% of you do it in private, never bother anyone, and contribute to the community. Great, I don't have a problem with you; however, I do have a problem with the over the top RPers even you posted about. They are what everyone outside of RP sees as RP. That is what we want gone.

Since you're not part of that Westboro Baptist Church demographic of RPers I am describing, why are you so mad butthurt about my posts? For someone claiming to not be in some tightly knit group, I find it really funny you're upset about me clearly talking about someone you say you're not.

[Fensfield]

Honestly? I'm fifty-fifty on the issue.

With Besaid and having managed to popularise the idea that it was 'where the roleplay is', we kind of ended up with the best of both worlds. We had most of the roleplayers knowing where to go to find eachother and, thanks to that remarkable effort from the fansites, most of the community at large as well .. and we also didn't have most of the issues that an 'official' roleplay server can bring. Not that I can list them off the top of my head but, it's always been my feeling the officially designated roleplaying servers do have some attendant issues.. so I'll just say it's a gut feeling. Plus as others have said, if the roleplayers and the majority of the Besaid community could move together across the reshuffle.. that would be awfully nice. There are also population issues to consider, and the likelihood of an RP server's priority when it comes to further mergers and shutdowns.

Anyway, like I said, I'm split. On the other hand, if a server were officially designated for roleplaying, it would solve a lot of our immediate issues and there would be long term benefits as well, I'm sure.. Not least not having to popularise that knowledge again, which may be a lot harder without fansites and the gaming community in general scrambling to frontpage every piece of news about the game that they can as they did at launch - even news about roleplayers. So I'll say yes, please, the developers should take this opportunity they clearly have to designate an official roleplay server.

[Griss]

Wacky idea. Pick a number and call that the rp server your self's the same way besaid became the current one.

Ya know what i will solve the Entire problem for you right now. World 7 that's your rp server. There you go all fixed, have at it.

[Mho]

Brigandier, you wander in and insult all RPers then attack the ones who speak up and wonder why people are "butthurt"? Honestly? How are you not seeing what you've done to yourself? You're trying to have your cake and eat it too - insult RPers then play the "But I know better " card. It's ridiculous and it's hypocritical. If you feel you must continue your misguided efforts at smug superiority, please take Oskar's suggestion and take it elsewhere.