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The real problem for me is I can not find anyone to really rp with....that and the few I do tend to find tend to be flat.

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That is exactly the current problem with Virtue right now. It needs a gathering area for the RP community with characters who are not affiliated with any groups. Sadly, the only place is Pocket D and we already stated what's wrong with it.

I tried to create another RP spot. So did many others. But it never got enough motivation from the RP community. So I just gave up. *shrug*

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The problem with Pocket D isn't that cyberers are there. The problem is that RPers aren't there, or at least that people think they aren't there. When the D first got patched in I remember pretty clearly posting here that the only way the D is going to be an awesome place to RP is if RPers go there, RP there, and don't just let the cyber crowd have it. And for a while, RPers did go there and it was awesome. Then they didn't, and it wasn't. You can say whatever you want about how horribly offensive it is to know that someone in the same zone as you is swapping the dirty talk, but when it comes down to it if RPers were there, it would be the place to be, no matter what the cyber crowd does or says. The RP community, such as it is, just doesn't want a central RP spot badly enough to make it happen. And honestly, I'm not sure what's so wrong with that.

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Well RPers do in fact go to P-D. They generally hang out blueside upstairs. However, the public RP there is generally rather flat with people RPing ordering their favorite drink, RPing flirting with others, and RPing making small talk. In short RPing all the same stuff you can find in absolutely any bar in the world IRL which always seemed kinda pointless to me.

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Hence the out I left myself, "or people think they aren't there". I haven't spent a lot of time there since coming back to the game, but the complaints about it are the same old stuff. Some things never change, I guess.

Your point about being bored with the RP that goes on there, though, interests me. I wonder, what exactly do people who want a public RP space think that they want to do there? What exactly is supposed to go on? My character going out for a couple drinks or just to hang out at a club is something I can relate to, it's something a real person would do. Bars and clubs are natural social gathering points. The idea of a whole bunch of supers arbitrarily converging on a random rooftop or on Gemini Park for no particular reason and having all sorts of crazy story stuff happen there has always struck me as awfully difficult to swallow even in a setting where people fly and have eye lasers. Personally I don't tend to say to myself "Hey, I think I'll go to a place where there's nothing to do so I can hang around with a bunch of people I don't know and may or may not have anything at all in common with", and I don't think anyone I know tends to think like that either. I don't see how something like that is more satisfying than a location where there's actually things to do, that's commonly recognized by normal people as a social gathering spot, and where a real person put into this situation would very likely at least consider popping into now and again.

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The real problem for me is I can not find anyone to really rp with....that and the few I do tend to find tend to be flat.

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That is exactly the current problem with Virtue right now. It needs a gathering area for the RP community with characters who are not affiliated with any groups. Sadly, the only place is Pocket D and we already stated what's wrong with it.

I tried to create another RP spot. So did many others. But it never got enough motivation from the RP community. So I just gave up. *shrug*

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The problem with Pocket D isn't that cyberers are there. The problem is that RPers aren't there, or at least that people think they aren't there. When the D first got patched in I remember pretty clearly posting here that the only way the D is going to be an awesome place to RP is if RPers go there, RP there, and don't just let the cyber crowd have it. And for a while, RPers did go there and it was awesome. Then they didn't, and it wasn't. You can say whatever you want about how horribly offensive it is to know that someone in the same zone as you is swapping the dirty talk, but when it comes down to it if RPers were there, it would be the place to be, no matter what the cyber crowd does or says. The RP community, such as it is, just doesn't want a central RP spot badly enough to make it happen. And honestly, I'm not sure what's so wrong with that.

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I've never seen a team spot filling request ask for RP preferred. Never. There must be a private channel for that.

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I've done it a couple times. Personally though I tend to favor using the LFG tool and looking for people whose comments indicate that they RP. That said, I'm not usually looking for random people for a team, I'm more often looking for one or two to fill up a TF and may be favoring a particularly useful AT over another.

If you aren't setting yourself to LFG and indicating in your comments that you RP or are RP-friendly, you should be. Some of us do use it.

I could probably get enough folks from my SG to team up with you guys tomorrow night and do it, a bunch of us have characters in that level range that we've been working on. Gfriend me if you want and I'll catch up with you in game, global is @Warp Factor.

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I was talking to a friend about this. And it seems the only way to solve this...IC/OOC mix-up is to make an OFFICIAL RP server...and it kindda made sense.

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Wont happen. Servers are at low as it is so adding a new server would be currently counter productive. The best that could happen is Posi holds an event to vote for servers and basically rename the chosen server as a dedicated RP server.

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It also wouldn't actually accomplish anything. I've played on a lot of official RP servers in various games. Some of them sucked, some of them were outstanding. But none of them were all RPers, and most of them weren't even majority RPers. As nice as having an official RP server where everyone RPs may sound, it's not enforcable. And besides that, you still don't solve any of the problems that come from OOC drama between RPers. If anything, you encourage it by implying to drama-prone players that their baggage and craziness is somehow acceptable since this server is "different, it's RP".

Whatever complaints some of us may have from time to time, Virtue has a really good thing going. I'd suggest focusing more on the positive rather than getting too dragged down by the popular complaints about the D and so forth. Just get out there, have fun with your friends, and stay out of the corners.

I can change my height?

*sniffs, then sobs* It's the best Christmas evar!

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That being said, there has been more and more splintering of the RP commnity, mostly cause people tend to get tired of beign told they are RPing wrong. So they stay with only people they know.

THERE IS NO WRONG WAY TO RP! IT IS SUBJECTIVE!

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NO! UR RP IS RONG! SO IZ UR SPELLING! U SUK DJ F*%$Y!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Most of my RP happens with the SG and with friends, but we do look for pickup RPers to roll with us pretty frequently. I don't know if that's what you'd call consistently plotted with activities; at some point we'll probably get around to preplanned storylines and RP events and stuff, but at the moment we've got other priorities.

I mourn the loss of my beloved ledge.

Lowering your resolution does seem to be a possible solution. Kind of a drag, but such is life. Honestly, everyone I know who's upgraded to a widescreen monitor has loved it, myself included, so once you get your settings sorted I think you're really gonna dig it.

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Actually, y'know what? We get these threads periodically complaining about how there's nothing of substance on this board. How about you guys who like to complain actually try posting something of substance? Rather than posting QQ about it, put your money where your mouth is and actually contribute positively to the community, with something other than complaints. Because y'know, this past week we've seen two event postings (the Dawn Patrol anniversary shindig and the SG recruitment fair) that none of the usual complainers posted anything to, despite these clearly being content posts that contributed something to the community. You want to complain? Step up and be part of the solution.

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Hey, we had some substance in the Rookery today. Don't go knockin' my attempts to proselytize.

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Potentially fair point. I actually don't read the Rookery threads, or most of the other fluff threads on this forum. I just don't object to their existence, or buy into the idea that flame threads are more valuable. Like I said, the wonderbread and mayo sammiches don't hurt me if I don't eat them, and that's OK by me.

Actually, y'know what? We get these threads periodically complaining about how there's nothing of substance on this board. How about you guys who like to complain actually try posting something of substance? Rather than posting QQ about it, put your money where your mouth is and actually contribute positively to the community, with something other than complaints. Because y'know, this past week we've seen two event postings (the Dawn Patrol anniversary shindig and the SG recruitment fair) that none of the usual complainers posted anything to, despite these clearly being content posts that contributed something to the community. You want to complain? Step up and be part of the solution.

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You all have become tender little morsels of writhing wormwood. Soft. Soft. Sofly crying about your exposure to "bad pugs" ... or worse! "Rookery threads"! Is that the best you have? Spitting vile against harmless self-contained "fluff". Find a worthwhile target. There's nothing wrong with the daily existance of Rookery. There's something wrong with the distinct lack of everything else in terms of volume.

Now I'm not talking about being better at being mean. Not talking about being better at being inciteful. Not talking about being a better troll. No. I am talking about the air in these forums reeks of incompetent angst. This town deserves a better class of criminal.

Until then, you're all fired. <grin>

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I remember when this forum had a better class of criminal. It was an utterly repellent place that drove off a ton of really good, worthwhile people who had interesting things to post about. Not what I'd call an upgrade to the relatively bland but harmless stuff going on now.

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It was actually a lot more interesting then. Mostly because we had really interesting things to post about. These days? Not so much.

Bland and harmless is about as interesting as wonderbread and mayo sandwiches.

I'm going to retch at the thought of that now.

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Not buying it. I've been around at least as long as you have, maybe longer, and I don't remember this golden age of interesting subject matter. Unless of course what one finds interesting is flame wars over who godmoded who, which Gemini Park RPers are snobs and which aren't, whether or not the D sucks, etc etc. If that qualifies as interesting, then I guess you're right. But I don't think it does.

The nice thing about wonderbread and mayo sandwiches is they're pretty harmless if I choose not to eat them. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Having said that, I'll concede that Ara and I may be talking about totally different things, so she and I may not disagree as much as I'd initially thought.

Also, skip using mayo in chicken salad and tuna sandwiches. Low fat ranch dressing is tastier and marginally healthier.

Good times, The Guardian Angels welcomed a few new members and may be speaking with a few more in the near future, I forget exactly how many. I just got up, can't do math this early. We had a good time once we started interviewing new people in team chat rather than local, which was so difficult to follow it was giving us headaches. I was pretty impressed by some of the SGs that turned out, too, there were some groups I'd never even heard of doing some really fun RP in local, so it was cool listening in on that when I could follow it. Well done, all.

I don't think there's a villain side fair tonight. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Shadowwings wasn't planning on being in two places at once.

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Rum is for peasents. And Bourbon may be Whiskey, but it is NOT real Whisky

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I had a bunch of replies to that, about how those who deny the superiority of bourbon are like so-and-so, but they're all so offensive I'd wind up banned. I blame society for my sense of humor. So I will say only...

Go. Hunt. Kil Canadians.

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Should we wager on how long it takes you to get banned from posting, /again/? :P And yes, you'd think the Virtue board couldn't get any worse, but as long as Dane Cook still has a career I guess anything is possible.

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Wait, me or Haetron? I've never been banned from posting.

Then you need to stop drinking girly rum, son, and crack open something good. That said, points for whiskey. A nice bourbon is a fine, fine thing.

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You all have become tender little morsels of writhing wormwood. Soft. Soft. Sofly crying about your exposure to "bad pugs" ... or worse! "Rookery threads"! Is that the best you have? Spitting vile against harmless self-contained "fluff". Find a worthwhile target. There's nothing wrong with the daily existance of Rookery. There's something wrong with the distinct lack of everything else in terms of volume.

Now I'm not talking about being better at being mean. Not talking about being better at being inciteful. Not talking about being a better troll. No. I am talking about the air in these forums reeks of incompetent angst. This town deserves a better class of criminal.

Until then, you're all fired. <grin>

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I remember when this forum had a better class of criminal. It was an utterly repellent place that drove off a ton of really good, worthwhile people who had interesting things to post about. Not what I'd call an upgrade to the relatively bland but harmless stuff going on now.

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I edit others VV pages all the time.

I usually add the line "enjoys shaving goats then dressing them in thongs..."

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*ctrl-c and makes a beeline for Ozell One's VV page*

Son, if you're implying that rum is unmanly, forget about the Captain. Sailor Jerry and I may have to have a word with you.

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(No one's even complained about my repeated attempts to wormhole Hamidon, but then they probably don't know. Oops. )

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You know that can be done to the Hamidon on the LGTF, right?

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Till then, who keeps the rum around here?

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Me. And you can't have any. I'm mighty protective of my rum, mister.

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Virtue needs more RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

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AND HERE IT IS!

Wait, what? Somebody is having fun on the internet?

OH NOES! SOUND THE ALARM! I FEEL THREATENED! EVERYBODY STOP LOOKING AT THEM AND LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!1!!!11!!