The best RPG ever, even though the RP part is missing?

Tharkon

Tharkon

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Sweden, Stockholm

07 May 2005 at 12:14 - 1
Well this is my first post I'm still roaming the newbee areas and have yet to discover an eight skill so maybe I'm wrong but every atempt I've made to role play or even talk with some stranger I've not been hunting/trading with has failed.


Sometimes when I've asked for help or the other way around something resembling a "RL discussion" has accured. I know from expirience that most people don't put in effort in talking or socializing in the begining of the game, as do I. But never this much.

Will I see this patern in the future aswell or will it change as I advance?


Besides from this the game is realy good, the quests are indeed fun and interesting and the graphics I love. Like the title says, I think that this RPG is the best though the RP part is almost gone. But nothing the game makers can do about realy :/

My thanks to the developers Keep upp the work!

Pevil Lihatuh

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

07 May 2005 at 13:30 - 2
hey get on over to teh Sardelac Sanitorium in this forum; some of us are asking for a Role Playing district in each town; much like you have the Internation Districts. So we could always go to the RP districts and stay in character, and then when we want a RL convo we can just go to a 'normal' district.

Deagol

Deagol

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Denmark

07 May 2005 at 14:11 - 3
One option is to join an RP guild, and simply turn off local talk.

Mimu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

England, UK

Call of Destiny [call]

07 May 2005 at 14:30 - 4
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deagol
One option is to join an RP guild, and simply turn off local talk.
Plus, the completely instanced worlds make for a great rp setting, with no idiots to mess it up.

OvertheHill

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

07 May 2005 at 16:04 - 5
There isn't a single MMORPG on the market that gives a crud abou the role playing community. There have been a few attempts to superficially throw a bone to roleplayers with so-called role-playing servers. However, none of the MMORPGs do anything remotely resembling enforcement of keeping an atmosphere on these servers suitable for roleplaying. The role playing servers are just as filled with l33t dOOds filling the public channels with l33tsp3ak spam is the regular servers.

Matter of fact, it looks like even the coming D&D MMORPG will do basically nothing to support roleplaying, either. If you can't get the MMORPG based on the game that defined the whole concept of role-playing games to provide a little enforcement of a role-playing friendly environment, then nobody is going to support roleplaying properly.

You want real roleplaying, you're still going to have to go to a text-mud that enforces a RP-friendly environment.

Pevil Lihatuh

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

07 May 2005 at 16:12 - 6
The only way you can enforce it is employ people to police the districts. No company is gonna want to do that. Someone I know used to play a free UO shard where they had a GM on all the time to make sure no one spoke out of character; if they did, they got banned.

Problem is that most level up games are called RPG's and so many people who play them (most probably) don't care about real RP, they just make the characters. Or they RP the way I do in Sacred; I still talk like me but I decide "Right this char only likes using this type of weap so no bows for me, even if they're twice as powerful" or things like that.

Another suggestion that was made (by me i think ) is simply to add another chat channel; the roleplay channel. Ok we'll still get morons spamming us with trades, but at least we can turn all others off and those people that think rp-ing is 'stupid' can turn off the rp channel

Tharkon

Tharkon

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Sweden, Stockholm

07 May 2005 at 22:22 - 7
I belive the idea of a new chat and 1-2 new "RP" districts are great. I hope some GMs could be hired (for a litle pay or maybe free expansion packs?) so that they could ban those who don't obey the rules in those districts.

I remember before UO got bought by EA. The original company always had fun stuff happening, they had a sea monster, they had pirates, they had everything! It was truly a role play atmosphere. OOC was allowed ofcourse but no one was spamming and ****ing around without a reason. Those who didn't role play respected those who did and it was paradise on the internet

The biggest problem with promoting RP in this game I think is that it is made exacly for getting stronger and more powerfull so that you can win wars. People only think on leveling/power gaming and stop role playing. That's sad :/

Can't we get some people to send the creators the same mail, about a new RP district and a RP chat. Then they will listen I hope

Pevil Lihatuh

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

07 May 2005 at 22:42 - 8
thats true. but then again once you get to level 20 you may be more inclined to roleplay, since you can't level anymore. Maybe they would do it even in the sense that "i have this sword that does this damage; wonder if i can find one that does the same damage but matches my armour" or something. That would be better than nothing lol.

A mail to the creators is a good idea, we should all send that in. In the mean time we could make a thread in the rp section of this forum I guess and post our in-game names so that we could look out for each other and meet up to rp.

Teufel Eldritch

Teufel Eldritch

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Shadar Logoth

The Legendary Majestic 12

N/

08 May 2005 at 00:19 - 9
I would love to role play. The idea for RP districts is a awesome one!

Deagol

Deagol

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Denmark

08 May 2005 at 08:04 - 10
Playing style:

(*) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
( ) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
( ) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
( ) Farmer / Collect gold and cool items
( ) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

I think it would be great if we got a way to specify our playing style, like above. The game should then try to put people with similat style in the same districts (when there are enough). It should also be easy to see the style of other players.

A party with both a power leveler and explorer is not going to be fun for either one.

JDock

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

08 May 2005 at 08:15 - 11
Playing style:

(*) Student / Trying to learn the game
(*) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
( ) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
(*) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote


PhazeFire

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2005

08 May 2005 at 23:54 - 12
Playing style:

( ) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
(*) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
( ) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

My in-game name is "Tuath Eldaran" on European servers.

Sekkira

Sekkira

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Canberra, AU

09 May 2005 at 00:42 - 13
You forgot:

Funlover / Do everything, get everything and see everything just because

Unless that would be put under Explorer...

Deagol

Deagol

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Denmark

09 May 2005 at 06:15 - 14
Yes, that would be explorer. Everybody are (hopefully) funlovers, it is just different things they think are fun. I actually first thought of funlover for what I ended up calling social.

You probably should only be able to tick one of the radio buttons for the system to work.

BTW: I'm a explorer too, I ticked "student" to indicate the default value, so that beginners in general would end up together with other beginners. Learning the game together is most, eh, fun.

Omega_2005

Omega_2005

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

UK, or is it? *confused*

A/Rt

09 May 2005 at 09:28 - 15
This is my playing style:

(*) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
(*) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
(*) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

Oh, and if this below was added, I'll count it in:

(*) Insane Person / Make odd jokes and have a good laugh in the chat and TS

and also I'm in the Americain Servers as a E/Mo called Wnx Omega, so see me there

Manderlock

Manderlock

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

TX

Crimson ScS

W/N

09 May 2005 at 09:30 - 16
( ) Student / Trying to learn the game
(*) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
( ) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
(*) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

DeathShadow

DeathShadow

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

OK

09 May 2005 at 15:50 - 17
(**) Student / Trying to learn the game
(*) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
( ) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
( ) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
( ) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

Sam Katha

Sam Katha

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2005

Canada

Furniture Liberation Army

N/Me

09 May 2005 at 16:14 - 18
( ) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
(*) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
( ) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

09 May 2005 at 16:49 - 19
( ) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
( ) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
(*) Farmer / Collect gold a and cool items
( ) Social / Hang out to chat and emote[/QUOTE]
(*) Teacher / Try to help new players out on missions/quests/item searching(my own contribution)

there are also people just playing the game now to sell items.

Grim_Grom

Grim_Grom

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Source Forge

N/Me

09 May 2005 at 17:56 - 20
(*) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
( ) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
( ) Farmer / Collect gold and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

I wouldn't want an RP server, my fav bit is exploring, I love seeing all the sites of the fantasy world, however I like trading and hanging out chatting, but I also enjoy my PvP, which wouldn't be in an RP server, or would it?

Jackell

Jackell

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Buffalo NY

None at the moment

R/E

09 May 2005 at 18:04 - 21
By RP server, they mean just another district in towns where rp is encouraged, and, if possible, enforced. Much like there's Ascalon City 1 - 700 and International District, it would be Ascalon City Roleplay district.

I personaly don't rp, but I would love to see this happen. I don't mind people rping on the local chat channel, but the anti-rpers are completly annyoing, where if you say anything other than "Where's the next quest?" or "WTB this" they flip out. So, if a district like this could help cut back on that, I'm all for it!

Ramus

Ramus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

Zero Tolerance

W/Mo

09 May 2005 at 18:12 - 22
(*) Student / Trying to learn the game
( ) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
(*) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
(*) Farmer / Collect gold and cool items
(*) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

Um, jeeze. Im a bit of everything I guess.

Tharkon

Tharkon

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Sweden, Stockholm

09 May 2005 at 19:42 - 23
I agree with #21.

That's why im calling upon more/any(?) GMs to this world. Espesually to the new role play district(s?). And there should always be somone who overwatches the RP chat.
So what ya guys say? Shall we send them a mail?

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(**) Student / Trying to learn the game
(*) Power leveler / Ascend as fast as possible
(*) Explorer / See the entire world, do all the quests
(**) Role player / Try to stay in character at all time
( ) Farmer / Collect gold and cool items
( ) Social / Hang out to chat and emote

kayten

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

09 May 2005 at 20:52 - 24
perhaps a petition with people using the names of there mains on it? this way they can see it's something we all really want. as for the gming...couldn't we just have something like an appeal system that allows us to report people spamming non rp stuff on the rp channel, turning us all into gms of sorts?