Feeling punished for having alts...

[Saefinn]

Also i can understand if a RP guy or female wants to have more than one char for some reasons. I honestly never saw someone doing RP in this game. Except standing around and staring at each other in silence for eternity or spamming emotes counts as RP. If someone or a group really does RP i think they should use the /say channel for that. So that other ppl have chance of seeing what's going on and maybe join and don't think their is just another bunch of weirdos.

The RP community tends to centre around certain servers, outside of those servers, if they're doing it in private, I strongly suspect they're doing it that way to avoid trolls. The second most likely reason is they're ERPers...in which case you probably don't want them using /say. They're usually courteous in that respect. And as long as they're doing that, I say "to each their own".

If you're on a server like Balmung where it has a huge RP community, the trolling is much less of a problem, people tend to RP a lot more openly, and similarly, they do on Mateus. One of the reasons Balmung is so big is because it's the oldest RP server, world visit has at least alleviated that somewhat.

The reason places like this are so big is because there is a big hub for RPers and people have tended to nominate servers to start communities in.

But I started out on Gilgamesh, which has a smaller RP community (which was bigger when I started) and you'd attract a lot more in the way of trolls and it'd get annoying at times when you're trying to focus, so sometimes the simplest solution to avoid being harassed is to RP in party, though it's much less viable in an open community, where walk ups might happen.

People love trolling RPers because they think it's a weird hobby or have some misconceptions about RP and RPers, which they also find weird. Some people end up trolling because they don't like seeing RPers in their chat and it's their retaliation.

[Avidria]

The RP community tends to centre around certain servers, outside of those servers, if they're doing it in private, I strongly suspect they're doing it that way to avoid trolls. The second most likely reason is they're ERPers...in which case you probably don't want them using /say. They're usually courteous in that respect. And as long as they're doing that, I say "to each their own".

If you're on a server like Balmung where it has a huge RP community, the trolling is much less of a problem, people tend to RP a lot more openly, and similarly, they do on Mateus. One of the reasons Balmung is so big is because it's the oldest RP server, world visit has at least alleviated that somewhat.

The reason places like this are so big is because there is a big hub for RPers and people have tended to nominate servers to start communities in.

But I started out on Gilgamesh, which has a smaller RP community (which was bigger when I started) and you'd attract a lot more in the way of trolls and it'd get annoying at times when you're trying to focus, so sometimes the simplest solution to avoid being harassed is to RP in party, though it's much less viable in an open community, where walk ups might happen.

People love trolling RPers because they think it's a weird hobby or have some misconceptions about RP and RPers, which they also find weird. Some people end up trolling because they don't like seeing RPers in their chat and it's their retaliation.

It's unfortunate. I used to RP back in WoW years ago, and we'd always get people showing up in known rp spots and just messing around or spamming abilities or doing nonsense "rp" where they can ofc magically see your name over your head and know things they shouldn't about your character. More mildly irritating than anything most of the time, but man.

Not liking a hobby is one thing, but harassing people because they do? That just makes you a jerk and a bully, or at absolute best, it makes you rude and immature.

Bit of a micro vent but yeah, I can understand why people would want their RP to be a little more private.

[Saefinn]

It's unfortunate. I used to RP back in WoW years ago, and we'd always get people showing up in known rp spots and just messing around or spamming abilities or doing nonsense "rp" where they can ofc magically see your name over your head and know things they shouldn't about your character. More mildly irritating than anything most of the time, but man.

Not liking a hobby is one thing, but harassing people because they do? That just makes you a jerk and a bully, or at absolute best, it makes you rude and immature.

Bit of a micro vent but yeah, I can understand why people would want their RP to be a little more private.

Ah, yeah, have had those.

Actually your rant reminds me, I did have one a few weeks ago. Showed up to our FC house as we run socials, they tried to do an armed robbery, threatened to burn the place down, then "burnt" it down, god modding. And then told us how bad we are at RP for not reacting to them burning the place. building. Trolling did not work, I went along with it up until the point they started god modding and it's canon that they were shot dead on leaving the building. We run a pirate theme there, so walking up to a captain and threatening them is well, gonna have you wind up dead anyway. If they were serious and generally thought godmodding an RP was how people do things, the moment they pull out a flame thrower is the moment they get shot, let alone be able to burn down a mansion.

There's like no reason to have an alt when you can be all classes/jobs on one character. Stop playing with dolls and play the game.

Hmm, which meme shall I go with?
"You don't pay my sub"
"Cool story bro"
or
"Don't tell me what to do, you're not my real mum"