Union is the real RP server, there are some RP'ers on Deviant, but they're few and far between.
Baeh! So... Is it possible to move over my character to Union? He's so fine lookin'! S'pose I can make a new one too...
Well, thanks for telling. It was the same when trying Guild Wars for the first time. First thing I see in a chat bubble in the intro movie when zooming down on me was: "[censored] my cape looks dumb"
Thanks again.
I play my villain on union and its not like its any different there.. But at least I've seen people with <roleplayer> on their personal info.
Co* isn't a roleplaying game in the sense that WoW and GW are. There is no official roleplaying server, and hence, even on Union (the unofficial server) it's quite unlikely you'll run into anyone incharacter unless you are in the right place at the right time.
A group of hardcore-ers get together every evening at 9pm just outside Galaxy Girl; unfortunately, this is in Paragon and hence only available to get to from CoH. AFAIK there isn't a "set" roleplaying area in CoV--but Pocket D* is used occasionally.
Don't be surprised to see lots of people outside of these areas talking OOC. As I've said, Co* isn't targetted at pure roleplayers, and hence there are more non-roleplayers on the game.
We're still nice people though.
(*Pocket D is a "nightclub" accessible to both heroes and villains, though unlike the PvP zones, no fighting is permitted and roleplaying does take place every so often.)
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Guild Wars is not a Rolepaying game at all. not even a little bit. was on it this morning, it only has 20 (very easy to get) lvls but for some reson people where still offering Pl sevices. i have to leave at that point.
and the GGers being hardcore? not me lass 
and yes, Onion has lots of nice peopel on it, stasis being one of them.
not MaX though, hes a right B****** and is on defiant.
Since you mentioned SWG Hoppy... WoW an RPG? I've been on one of their Roleplay servers... I don't think so. 
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Since you mentioned SWG Hoppy... WoW an RPG? I've been on one of their Roleplay servers... I don't think so.
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*poke* That's Guild Wars mate!
Still... You're right about SWG too!
At least WoW TRY, by having servers as official RP ones... It's not really Blizzards fault people still go OOC...
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I've never played Guild Wars, FFM.
And if Blizzard want to run RP servers they need to:
* Enforce the rules.
* Not build their reputation on things like Diabolo.
* Not create an environment designed to promote combat between enemies to the exclusion of diplomacy.
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never try Guild Wars mate, it looks great, but it would drive you nuts, it's Pure PvP, the "Roleplaying campain" is jsut a place to discover items for the PvP side. it's mental.
Unfortunately, Cass is right. the game is heavily, heavily slanted towards PVP. However, as with CoH that doesnt stop me from trying.
you do? it is a good game, with a good mechanic, the economey is a disaster (people almost bever use gold, sell stuff for platinum) buti guess if you can stay out in the fully instances extrior most of the time is good fun, and it kicks wow square in the nuts for vistas and gameplay.
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Unfortunately, Cass is right. the game is heavily, heavily slanted towards PVP. However, as with CoH that doesnt stop me from trying.
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However, being built around PvE doesn't of course mean that the game would be focused on roleplaying
(As slightly OT, heard an interview of the GW makers and grinched every time the refered to PvE as 'roleplaying' *shudder*)
We should try to kick in a large request or sumthin' to ncsoft about a Roleplaying server, and hope it doesn't go quite as wrong as WoW with its obsession if "cyb0ring" and such. It isn't a pleasent ... emotehearing () to hear the emotes of two people behind the tree you just arrived at. But if we had a Roleplaying server, an official one, with a <RP> sign behind the server, or something, it would be easier to see who is a roleplayer and such. Or, instead of saying <RP> it could say <Roleplaying>, that way we wouldn't have thousands of people asking: What does RP stand for?
Meh, I'm just talkin', and I'm really tired... I hardly slept... But I still think It's a good Idea!
.....i think...
There's not enough players to justify an RP server, especially not in the EU.
And it would mean that all of the roleplayers already playing would get screwed over because we'd have to start new characters to play on the RP server.
Not to mention the cost of actually creating and maintaining a new server.
And you'd get people asking why there aren't French and German RP servers if they only made an English one.
Basically CoH was never marketed as a roleplaying game, and was never designed as one. If it were, you would have the ability to engage in dialogue with NPCs, have alternate solutions to missions, the ability to build up actual relationships with NPCs, etc.
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Unfortunately, Cass is right. the game is heavily, heavily slanted towards PVP. However, as with CoH that doesnt stop me from trying.
[/ QUOTE ]PvP? Hell no, the game is built totally around PvE, and about 90% of the playerbase spend more time PvE'ing...
However, being built around PvE doesn't of course mean that the game would be focused on roleplaying
(As slightly OT, heard an interview of the GW makers and grinched every time the refered to PvE as 'roleplaying' *shudder*)
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max, what do faction point get you? and whats the advantage of unknow objects? and the signet of capture to get the Elite skills? oh thats right, they unlock stuff for PvP, most of the PvE game is set up to grind out extra skills and items to use in PvP.
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That seems to be the way most MMO manufacturers think. I'm pretty sure it's the way Cryptic think. I think it stems from 'Roleplaying Games' on PCs being categorised by those games where you sometimes have to talk to the NPCs.
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What Wordy said, basically, but beyond that... do you really think we haven't tried?
Cryptic add RP features to this game with the same pleasure as having their teeth pulled without anaesthetic. I think Bridger's stopped trying to convince people that Cryptic are interested in roleplayers, he was onto a losing battle.
You wouldn't believe how happy we were when they added new emotes in I6. It was like getting a pat on the head from God. "Hey! Wow! They noticed we exist."
Put it this way. If there are two choices of how to do soemthing in game, with no cost difference between the options, and one option would benefit roleplayers more than the other, then you can bet that Cryptic will go for the other option.
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Unfortunately, Cass is right. the game is heavily, heavily slanted towards PVP. However, as with CoH that doesnt stop me from trying.
[/ QUOTE ]PvP? Hell no, the game is built totally around PvE, and about 90% of the playerbase spend more time PvE'ing...
However, being built around PvE doesn't of course mean that the game would be focused on roleplaying
(As slightly OT, heard an interview of the GW makers and grinched every time the refered to PvE as 'roleplaying' *shudder*)
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max, what do faction point get you? and whats the advantage of unknow objects? and the signet of capture to get the Elite skills? oh thats right, they unlock stuff for PvP, most of the PvE game is set up to grind out extra skills and items to use in PvP.
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There's not enough players to justify an RP server, especially not in the EU.
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It's not just the lack of players. Cryptic/NCSoft would have to hire a whole new set of GMs who specialise in roleplaying...which would take all of thirty seconds in the US, but would be virtually impossible in the EU.
The cost, time and effort to create three new servers (espcially as they haven't implemented a Spanish server yet...which I believe was being looked into as there are many many Spanish players) would be too much to even consider at this stage in the game's lifespan.
Whilst a lot of us have negative views of WoW, it is the leading game on the market, and Co* hasn't yet reached a point where it can compete with them on roleplaying standards.
Added to that (though I know Raven and Wordy may not agree with me here 
), while there are no specific roleplaying features, there's nothing to stop you roleplaying either. The one thing I'd really want Cryptic to include is a "fakedeath" emote, just to cover that side of RP. Otherwise, it's as good as it can be at the moment. Remember when you were a child, and possibly played Cops & Robbers...you didn't have real guns or jail cells, yet you managed to play the game; Co* is the online equivalent of that.
Oh and as for not wanting people to ask what "RP" means. Why? Everyone has to find out someway...no one would be a roleplayer if they hadn't first found out about the term. It's not a secret society, so please don't fob people off if they express interest in it.
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Oh and as for not wanting people to ask what "RP" means. Why? Everyone has to find out someway...no one would be a roleplayer if they hadn't first found out about the term. It's not a secret society, so please don't fob people off if they express interest in it.
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I have always did a little RPing in my games, I just never knew I was RPing...
And I think the OP was meaning to cover ignorance, rather than shutting those people out.
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Well, I heard that this game is also a Roleplaying game, like some others, and not only a l33tsp34k-game where everyone yells lol and lfg and plxx group i ned help.
Well, first thing I notice after I get out of that blasted jail, is a person coming up to me and saying: need help
Did I know what he ment exactely? He used no question mark. Then he wanted to help me, and I said no. After that, he said: kk lets be m8s. I don't like those 8's!
... So please, if there is any Roleplayers left on the surface of the Deviant Server, speak up! And, I'm a villain, so grr... rr...