Role playing and game features

[LalaRu]

How do you fit the game features in your roleplay?

As example, the FC chat iicly can be viewed as a private linkshell network provided to the FC members from the GC as a service, and the FC login message may be a prerecorded message played to a member every time s/he (re)connects its linkpearl to the FC linkshell network.

What about tools as duty finder, party finder, etc? Do you take them off or had found some reasonable reason (ah, the pun!) for being recognized? Has this already been discussed somewhere?

[JunseiKei]

Party finder I view as a town message board with jobs. One person in charge that can say who's in and who's not or otherwise sets the rules.

Duty finder I've viewed as going to a town hall or something similar and saying, "I need to hire some mercenaries" (or "I'd like to offer my services to someone") and you get stuck with who you're stuck with. Or you can drop out, but you're left with a reputation debuff that makes everyone sneer and not want to party with you at your choosing-begger actions.

Death (IE: your HP hit 0) I view the same way as Dungeons and Dragons, minus the negatives and death saving throws: you're unconscious, but not dead. That's why I have raise macros that chastise people for sleeping on the job.

[MistakeNot]

How do you fit the game features in your roleplay?

As example, the FC chat iicly can be viewed as a private linkshell network provided to the FC members from the GC as a service, and the FC login message may be a prerecorded message played to a member every time s/he (re)connects its linkpearl to the FC linkshell network.

What about tools as duty finder, party finder, etc? Do you take them off or had found some reasonable reason (ah, the pun!) for being recognized? Has this already been discussed somewhere?

Most of that I simply ignore from an RP point of view. Stuff like duty roulettes is all done OOC as far as I am concerned, unless you are in a premade group where everyone is agreed to do a dungeon run IC - and then it would normally not be a roulette anyhow, but some specific dungeon.

[Bright-Flower]

I mostly ignore game mechanics.

FC chat has always been OOC in the RP FCs I've joined, though some would also have a linkshell that was IC. Linkshells I treat as IC when they're in character, but say the ooc hunt linkshell I'm in I don't acknowledge in character.

I acknowledge that aetherytes exist and can be used in game, as they are part of the lore. But I also treat them as costly and not something to be used lightly teleporting around willy nilly.

I don't treat duty or party finder as in character, with the exception of party finder entries for RP events. In that case I would treat them like a flyer posted on a message board in town. All the PF messages about forming raid groups etc I ignore.

I'm generally not in character when doing content like dungeons or raids. On some occasions, a RP event in my fc will use a dungeon or boss fight as a facsimile of something else. For example, a voidsent we fought that had ice powers, we used Shiva boss fight as a sort of stand in. That is the closest I tend to get for having instanced content be in character.

I don't tie the story of my characters to the story of the WoL. My character never fought Zenos, didn't help Doma free itself from the Empire, etc. Sometimes there is SOME overlap, such as my main character fighting in the ala mhigan resistance for a while, but my character wasn't doing what the WOL did.

Because I don't tend to tie content like dungeons into my RP I don't generally have to worry about 'death' but if it does crop up it would either be knocked unconscious, or being wounded and having to fall back for healing. In RP fights it depends on the context of the fight.

[LalaRu]

Will agree on the character not dying, but just knocked out. "Resurrection" spells will not get people back from the dead, but just will "resurrect" the capability of fighting, and those spells also need be backed up with heals, because the "resurrected" foe is yes back on his feet, but on dangerously low health.

[Nyvara]

I mostly ignore game mechanics.

FC chat has always been OOC in the RP FCs I've joined, though some would also have a linkshell that was IC. Linkshells I treat as IC when they're in character, but say the ooc hunt linkshell I'm in I don't acknowledge in character.

I acknowledge that aetherytes exist and can be used in game, as they are part of the lore. But I also treat them as costly and not something to be used lightly teleporting around willy nilly.

I don't treat duty or party finder as in character, with the exception of party finder entries for RP events. In that case I would treat them like a flyer posted on a message board in town. All the PF messages about forming raid groups etc I ignore.

I'm generally not in character when doing content like dungeons or raids. On some occasions, a RP event in my fc will use a dungeon or boss fight as a facsimile of something else. For example, a voidsent we fought that had ice powers, we used Shiva boss fight as a sort of stand in. That is the closest I tend to get for having instanced content be in character.

I don't tie the story of my characters to the story of the WoL. My character never fought Zenos, didn't help Doma free itself from the Empire, etc. Sometimes there is SOME overlap, such as my main character fighting in the ala mhigan resistance for a while, but my character wasn't doing what the WOL did.

Because I don't tend to tie content like dungeons into my RP I don't generally have to worry about 'death' but if it does crop up it would either be knocked unconscious, or being wounded and having to fall back for healing. In RP fights it depends on the context of the fight.

While I have yet to RP in this game the above pretty much sums it up for me as well. There is the game and it's mechanics and then there is RP I find it easier and more immersive to just ignore the former when RPing. Same goes for the Story which to me is different than the lore. We all can't be the WoL right? But I can be an Ala Mihgan mage traveling the land in search of cookies and cat girls.

As to death, again game death or unconsciousness is different than RP in past MMOs we didn't evne use dungeons but went to areas in game where a storyteller would behave much like D&D and we had a roll system where if you were beaten my an imaginary monster you would be unconscious. Perma-death as we called it was a serious matter and was always the choice of the player.