Role-players in Dungeons

[Absimiliard]

How is this even a thing? I can understand RPing as a concept, and I really don't have a problem with people that choose to engage in it for the most part. What I can't figure out is why a minority of them genuinely seem to believe it's fine to progress at the speed of smell through dungeons, oft times with walk enabled, and waste time emoting betwixed themselves. When first encountering this back in the day, I assumed it was people griefing. And y'know, I'm sure some of these instances have been. ..But not all of them, which is where my lack of understanding comes into play.

Ya'll wanna turn on your RP tags and emote or whatever, that's fine - do it between pulls, not mid-pull. And for the love of Zodiark, turn walk off. Good hell.

[Renalt]

How is this even a thing? I can understand RPing as a concept, and I really don't have a problem with people that choose to engage in it for the most part. What I can't figure out is why a minority of them genuinely seem to believe it's fine to progress at the speed of smell through dungeons, oft times with walk enabled, and waste time emoting betwixed themselves. When first encountering this back in the day, I assumed it was people griefing. And y'know, I'm sure some of these instances have been. ..But not all of them, which is where my lack of understanding comes into play.

Ya'll wanna turn on your RP tags and emote or whatever, that's fine - do it between pulls, not mid-pull. And for the love of Zodiark, turn walk off. Good hell.

I can see this being extremely annoying for most. They are just doing their dailies or whatever and just want it done and over with after having probably done said content 100s of times...

However if it was me being subjected to it...I got snacks. I'll watch you play it out but I'm sure as hell going to make fun of it if their writing is bad/cringy.

[TheMightyMollusk]

If I had a nickel for every time I've seen people trying to ERP in a roulette, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[Ardeth]

If you can RP and contribute to getting the roulette done faster more power to ya.

[Zebraoracle]

As an RPer, keep your RP out of duty finder, it's cringe af if you're actively holding up the rest of the party.

[hynaku]

If it happens to me, I just peace out and leave. I want to finish the duty fast and get it over with not listen also to a bunch of RP with it.

[ryouma17]

this is why we have vote kick, and if that fails its better to take the 30 then get an aneurysm

[SilverObi]

You were getting trolled by people trying to use RP as their reason for it, plain and simple. The average RP'er won't seek to grief or ruin other players' experience if they aren't in on the RP beforehand.

Weirdly enough the only time I've seen people actually RPing during roulette runs, they were some of the fastest most efficient speedruns I've had lol they clearly had macros to deliver IC lines and such while keeping a steady pace (my favorites were the G'raha and Alisaie lookalikes)

[Absimiliard]

You were getting trolled by people trying to use RP as their reason for it, plain and simple.

In some cases, yes. In others, no. A small number of RPers will actually do this.

[SannaR]

I think I've only seen this about five times? Normally it's just the slow strolling. I just shrug and wait. I did have a person who accidentally got stuck on walk and was having trouble switching it off.