Personality of servers?

[Mikhaill]

Been on Crystal meth for awhile and I've never in all my roulettes or spam for Shisui gear seen people RP through a dungeon. If anything, I've seen it on Primal exactly once in the Twinning of all places. And even still, he ran with the group despite being an overall bad player that kept futzing mechanics on the final boss.

I've been on Bal a while now after transferring from Gilgamesh and have never seen this.

(Yes, once I realized I had no place among the hardcore I joined my people.)

I'm starting to think people are making this up just to join the "I haet Bawlmahng/ReePeers!" group.
I've been in Balmung since 2.0. Not once, in my life, have I ever seen this.

Mal is casual. Public RP is pointed and laughed at. We didn't choose to leave Primal.

Then move to Primal? Lmao? Instead of acting like...that, and being rude to RPers?
Just a thought.

[savageink]

Why, though? What is public RP doing to you?

annoying me. isn't it obvious.

[savageink]

Then move to Primal? Lmao? Instead of acting like...that, and being rude to RPers?
Just a thought.

We were here first. You leave.

[Gula]

Why, though? What is public RP doing to you?

People don't understand it, therefore it's geh and an object for easy ridicule.

Speaking as someone from that mentality, it's a product of immaturity and an easy target to gang up on and bully because such and such's cool friend was pointing and laughing first.

Though to this day I have mixed feelings because despite enjoying RP, it makes me cringe when seeing people who paid for a sub+jump potion just to stand around the Quicksands and treat XIV like Second Life.

[Doozer]

I've been on Bal a while now after transferring from Gilgamesh and have never seen this.

(Yes, once I realized I had no place among the hardcore I joined my people.)

Been on Crystal meth for awhile and I've never in all my roulettes or spam for Shisui gear seen people RP through a dungeon. If anything, I've seen it on Primal exactly once in the Twinning of all places. And even still, he ran with the group despite being an overall bad player that kept futzing mechanics on the final boss.

Yesterday I was farming MSQ trials for new player bonuses so I could do some Anima stuff, and in both The Chrysalis and Singularity Reactor we had at least one person just monologuing the entire time while sitting down during important mechanics. Doesn't matter if the content is super easy now, they're expected to pull their weight. And whenever I examined them, sure enough, they were roleplayers. I've never seen it on other data centers anywhere nearly as much. I don't care enough to switch data centers, since I'm used to carrying people anyway, but it's still irritating.

Like, twice in one day isn't a random anecdote treated as overarching fact. It's not the first time, either.

[Rasikko]

People don't understand it, therefore it's geh and an object for easy ridicule.

Speaking as someone from that mentality, it's a product of immaturity and an easy target to gang up on and bully because such and such's cool friend was pointing and laughing first.

Though to this day I have mixed feelings because despite enjoying RP, it makes me cringe when seeing people who paid for a sub+jump potion just to stand around the Quicksands and treat XIV like Second Life.

I tried Second Life once... It definitely was not what I expected it to be and left there in record time.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yesterday I was farming MSQ trials for new player bonuses so I could do some Anima stuff, and in both The Chrysalis and Singularity Reactor we had at least one person just monologuing the entire time while sitting down during important mechanics. Doesn't matter if the content is super easy now, they're expected to pull their weight. And whenever I examined them, sure enough, they were roleplayers. I've never seen it on other data centers anywhere nearly as much. I don't care enough to switch data centers, since I'm used to carrying people anyway, but it's still irritating.

Like, twice in one day isn't a random anecdote treated as overarching fact. It's not the first time, either.

I was on balmung for 4 years, until free transfers off, went to mateus for housing. I don't rp, never have, never will. Didn't know rpers were moving to mateus.

I have over 9000, that's right, nine thousand, completed instances. I have never encountered people rping in a dungeon. My friends have encountered it once. In almost 6 years. Once.

In my almost 15000 hours of playtime, I have only encountered odd public rp twice, on balmung, and that was near bronze lake and the hot springs.

I don't go to the rp hubs as I have no need to, and for the most part I see very little out in the wild.


It's pretty rare I would think, most rpers keep that stuff to preformed parties.

[Shougun]

I've been on balmung since its conception, I've never seen PUG rp in dungeons... so I think it must be a fairly rare occurrence. Then with over 9000 above me, lol well done mate, I really think it must be rare. Not saying your experience isn't real just that I'm not confident rp in PUG/DF is even sort of the norm. Maybe it's just very specific contents have it more, never in my own roulette though.

[Enla]

The only time I've heard of RP in dungeons is when the party is pre-formed with no opportunity for randoms to join in. Even that is extremely rare due in part to the instance timer, which limits how long you can be in the dungeon. Anyone who has seriously RP'd before knows RP can take hours of time on a good day and while many people I know have expressed a desire to go into a dungeon (unsync'd mind, and only with fellow RPers who agreed ahead of time) none of them are actually willing to put up with the hassle. No one has time to get to a good point in a dungeon, RP it out, then be kicked out by the timer and have to enter the dungeon /again/ and clear it out /again/.

Every time I hear of people screaming about RP in dungeons I can't help but feel like they ended up with trolls, rather than actual RPers. RPers get harassed enough as it is, most of us wouldn't willingly put ourselves into situations to invite disdain from other players. Hell I don't even RP out of party when I'm out of the housing ward, because I'd rather the ground swallow me whole than having my writing judged by someone with potentially ill intentions. Are there likely a few bad eggs out there stupid enough to do it? Oh I don't doubt it. Are they even 1% of the population? Unlikely.

That said I like Crystal. Yes things are a touch more casual here by virtue of the data center split and the mad, panicked dash many made towards Aether. Which hilariously caused a self-fulfilling prophecy but I digress. However people are generally pretty nice here and I haven't had any major problems that weren't present back before Aether was shattered. Some people are still awful, most people are still good to be around, etc.