In my experience, it can be pretty difficult to find people to role-play with in this game who aren't just looking to play out relationships and little else. It's more of a problem over on the North American servers, I've found - so you might have more luck over on Omega which is the unofficial European RP server.

Generally speaking, though, even the professed 'serious' role-players on Balmung who swore up and down that they just wanted to get out into the game world and fight bandits and monsters would suddenly turn around and try to nudge my character towards sleeping with them. It was pretty surreal.

Worse yet, a lot of the same individuals would then stop interaction altogether - because, as it turned out, the pursuit of romance/ERP ended up being their primary motivator after all.