Roleplaying in Cities and Villages

[sidusar]

Well, at least he didn't make any OOC references, like "Hi, I'm from Canada." It's just the chat-talk that gives an OOC feel to it. If he'd replaced the 'lol', 'ei' and 'cya m8' with respectively '*laughs*', 'enchanted isle' and 'see ya mate', it would've been perfectly acceptable IC.

The roleplayers who are always in character would probably just make that switch in their head and act like that's what was said. But if it annoys you, you can always just stop being IC as soon as it's apparent the other person isn't. Some don't want to RP at all and that's their right too.

And I still think the original topic is a good idea.

I say saturdays are the best, earlier (USA time) in the day, like noon.

Early afternoon in the USA will be evening in Europe. If it's a saturday, that'd probably be the time you can get the most players on.

On weekdays it's pretty hard to get the Americans and the Europeans together, as the Europeans go to bed about the same time the Americans come home from work. The Samsara Pub Nights mentioned where on tuesday, late in the evening European time, and if I recall a lot of Americans couldn't attend because they were still at work at that time.

Months ago planning something on a saturday would've had the risk of interfering with an official event, but I understand there aren't many of those at the moment?

[roles3]

well, we'll have to see what we can come up with, but expect frequent pesterings for a roleplay meet up in fairhaven /r from me, I hate it now when roleplayers act in those annoying 'bubble' communities, I recently joined the House of Etchmarc, had such a hard time finding them because in truth roleplayers are generally a secluded bunch. Nowadays if oocers want to just mess me around when I'm roleplaying and take no interest whatsoever I will tell them to sod off, I honestly don't mind oocers, but when they start interfering with the roleplay and deliberately try and be annoying about it, well, they're asking for it really.

I don't think roleplayers should be stuck just roleplaying whilst they hunt or in small groups, MMORPG's are just that! Massively Multiplayer Online ROLEPLAYING games if developers didn't want roleplaying to happen in their MMORPG's then they should just name them MMOG so that they don't end up confusing everyone ;D

[iwojimmy]

For myself, smilies and emotes are far more natural ways of expressing my character than anything between asterisks. and as for *draws his sword* etc etc.. I use the equip screen to set my avatar the way I feel apropriate for the situation they are in - including conversations in town. This makes me feel happy and in-character without forcing it down anyone elses throat and if the person I am talking to misses the significance of my 'physical' actions then too bad. If I really feel the need to emphasise something then its going to be in the conversation.

I dont think of myself as a roleplayer, just a gameplayer, and the game includes adopting a role

[jamela]

There's a handy 'ignore' feature which could help when you feel someone is forcing something on you. I don't think it's used very often here, but it is everyone's prerogative, and I'm sure it could save unnecessary aggravation when your personal filters are failing. I'm absolutely positive it will work better than deliberately being rude to someone. "They're asking for it really" - usually associated with a competitive gamestyle, rather than collaborative.

[ashling]

Massively Multiplayer Online ROLEPLAYING games if developers didn't want roleplaying to happen in their MMORPG's then they should just name them MMOG so that they don't end up confusing everyone ;D

There was a discussion on the off topic forums a while back about how much the abbrivation RPG when applied to computer games really means roleplaying like the roleplaying community means it, since from the first CRPG released in 1975 (Dungeon) untill the first MMORPG in 1991 (Neverwinter Nights) there was no real ability what so ever for "roleplaying". That's at least 16 years of RPG in the computer industry not really meaning roleplaying and just looking at current CRPGs on the market now, like Final Fantasy 12, it still doesn't mean CRPG = roleplaying.

That is without even getting into how many people view PnP roleplaying games as rollplaying games

[acridiel]

I agree with roles17 on trying to prevent putting ourselfs into "reservations for RPers" and thus preventing new Players from finding "us".
I won´t even start on the troubles us RPers had in the last few weeks on Leaonon, but I sometimes envy you people on Arispotle. *sigh*

Anyway I don´t have a problem with useing asterisks to express something that can´t be done by "charakter acting", visually I mean.
I hate it when people write things like *sits down*, *gets up*, *turns around* all the time... I mean you can see it happening on the screen, why then take the time and write it out?
Some even go so far and write things like the german versions of *state*, *say* or *ask*.
I could always go crazy about that. *LOL*
If there is a questionmark behind a sentence its pretty obviously a question, isn´t it? *asks* XD

Appart from that we german players tend to use it more in a way to elaborate that wich is seen on the screen. Like *gets up groaning a little*, or
*draws his sword in an exuberant flourish*. We´re trying to use the /em System for that, but sometimes we still fall back to *yxz*

Just my 2 cents

CU
Acridiel

[sidusar]

I hate it now when roleplayers act in those annoying 'bubble' communities

I'm sorry, but that doesn't seem logical.

You just said yourself that you hate it when you try to roleplay with someone who doesn't roleplay back. And I do understand how that can be frustrating. But, if you only roleplay with other roleplayers, then naturally all the roleplaying is going to end up inside a 'bubble' community, no?

I won´t even start on the troubles us RPers had in the last few weeks on Leaonon, but I sometimes any you people on Arispotle. *sigh*

Bah, now I'm curious

[roles3]

Not necessarily Sidusar, what I personally mean by 'bubble' communities, is where roleplayers are in just small groups rather than acting as one big community of roleplayers, It would make us easier to find and contact, but also if oocers want to try out roleplay as long as they don't just intend to annoy us, then that would be a good idea too, that's what I meant by bubble community before, not just roleplaying with other roleplayers... Though I don't really get how that's not 'logical' since really the term 'roleplayer' is used for someone who roleplays, it is not a group but a type of player, I am just saying that there are roleplayers out there who do not get in contact with other players much and prefer to keep to themselves, so that will cause a lot of problems for a new player who comes to this game and does actually want to roleplay.

[tr808]

Dont take this as a flame, but for some1 who plays a month u surely claim to know everything about the roleplaying community inside Atys.... A tag imho wouldnt work as other people said before it will only divide 2 groups RP - Non RP... You claim u dont want to create a higher stand stand over other players who dont RP but when i see ur example i think ur waaaaaaaay to picky about things, u let some1 saying lol ruin ur day? Stop playing MMORPG then..... ull will never find the utopia u are looking for...

On the other hand: nothing stands in ur way to go off and organize these things u want urself, go! life! be creative!

Just my 2 dappers.

[sidusar]

what I personally mean by 'bubble' communities, is where roleplayers are in just small groups rather than acting as one big community of roleplayers

Ah okay, I misunderstood then. Ignore my previous post.

It's true there isn't really one big community of roleplayers, I suppose. But then, there isn't really a clear line between RPers and non-RPers either.

so that will cause a lot of problems for a new player who comes to this game and does actually want to roleplay.

I don't think it's that hard to find out which the roleplaying guilds are. The [thread=28611]list of guilds[/thread] shows which guilds are highly based on roleplaying. Also, I admit I've been gone for months and don't know if it's still this way, but back then anyone asking about roleplaying on the universe channel would usually be answered with the names of several roleplaying guilds.