Hi, good ideas. I know what you mean about CoV - Mercy tends to be full of new gamers as opposed to RPers and the structure of zones means making progress to the less populated islands (Port Oakes springs to mind) difficult.
However, I'm currently in E.V.I.L. (Union btw) but have created an alt with a VG (Jove Tech Corporation) that will, I hope, be linked in coalition to EVIL (makes sense in my head). So, even if you have a small VG you could always join up with coalition.
In my experience the RPers in villains are all tremendously friendly and, if you want to get to know them better I suggest joining one until you hit lvl 10 then quit and start your own. That way you can get to know people better and establish your character. Goes without saying that you should probably tell the VG your intentions first 
but it'll pay off 
Contacts for EVIL are made through:
Whirlmeister
Echo Hammer
Big Lunk
Laugh Riot
Dark Impetus
and many others.
I'm heroing a lot atm so Midnight Rose won't be available to introduce you.
Any probs PM me
It seems people are friendly I would be glad to join part of E.V.I.L and find out about what other roleplay senarios. I would also like to know if perhaps a vampiric cult might fit in?
mmmm, probably, if you could get enough people to follow the story. I mean there are 1AT SGs, so I don't see why not. To be honest I don't see it getting that big though...
I wish you all the luck, but I'd also like to point out that it's been tried a few times. The main problem is a useable location that can be easily and safely reached by a level 1 character. Unfortunately, CoV lacks a place like the Galaxy Girl statue for people to meet up.
There also was the problem of being forced to through the tutorial, but fortunately, that's no longer an issue as of I7.
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I wish you all the luck, but I'd also like to point out that it's been tried a few times. The main problem is a useable location that can be easily and safely reached by a level 1 character. Unfortunately, CoV lacks a place like the Galaxy Girl statue for people to meet up.
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Velvet Noir used to hold shindigs under Aeon's globe as it's fairly quiet and people who do pass through are fairly tolerant of the rp (unlike gg on some days). UNfortunately it's in Cap au aand it's still dangerous to get to even at level 14/15.
The main problem at the moment is the rogue isles are cramped, there's only 6 zones you could possibly be (discounting pvp zones) which means there are pretty much no quiet corners that are easy for "just popping by" npcs and level 1 characters made solely for rp purposes.
Ideally a new area would be introduced as a starting area so there's not so much load on Mercy then things may quieten down as new people can choose a new place to be. Allowing a quieter setting in either or both areas.
The Monkey fight club in Port Oakes is a good place to RP with monkey cage fights every 5 minutes or so.
Pocket D is usually quiet but you do get two game's worth of idiots griefing you there so you need to have a tough hide to ignore them somedays.
I for one RP in missions with my two villains and have occasional street meets but I'll fully support and attend a villains regular meet if you start one.
I forgot to mention,
Chi... YOUR ICON RAWKS!!!
The orginal fort you start off in afgter the breakout episode is rather good but crowded, The arena is quiet and not many people hang around, I would like to start meetings but as a enw player i feel unable to without some vet playuers support with this idea, would anyone like to volenteer?
I prefer Pocket D as a meeting place, despite the prevalent opinion there is a lot of roleplaying sabotage going on there, i have never encountered a player there who tried to disrupt in character conversations and meeting, Pocket D is mostly empty, and those who use it as a transportation hub usually stay inside the entrance corridor anyway.
Another possibility although extremly unfriendly to starting characters would be the golden Giza, concept wise probably a perfect place for villains to socialize, however one would need a couple of dedicated people with teleport in order to get the low level (pre travel power) players near the entrance without too much trouble.
Monkey fight club is rather nice as well, and lacking any game mechanics relevant content what so ever , would allow the roleplaying crowd to stay among itself for the most part. I would discuss the possibility of regular events with E.V.I.L. , there is certainly a high possibility of several one time events, however to get something running on a regular basis requires a lot of dedication from organizers and visitors.
Well I dont intend on going anywhere too soon so I would quite gladly spend my time organising daily events at any 3 of these points, I would prefereither pcokect D or monkey fight club though since with pcoket D heros can join also and in monkey fight club it suits the villainus atmosphere
I think it would be nice to have a hero vs villain RP daily session setup in Pocket D AND a seperate Villain session setup in perhaps the monkey cage (if someone would be kind enough to show me where it is EXSACTLY i would be much ablidged) Since then the RP might evolve since with the Pocket D storylines the two social classes might mix creating perhaps love triangles and all sorts of juciely nice RP and the villains need somewhere to RP since atm its pathetically annoying that we have no where to go!
I shall personally spear head the monkey cage one if someone would first show me where it is and I would be more than happy to help with the Pocket D one if I get anough help from a hero participant also. It might also breed good recruitment grounds for fellow RPers. Anyway thank you
I have noticed that the heros have a RP daily meeting/meetingpoint. perhaps it might be a good idea to make a CoV meeting point and daily RP meets? Being new I dont know all the key locations but I would suggest this a good idea, so more RPer's who come looking for RP arnt scared away by the other non-Rpers.
Also, I heard there are some RP group already, but would a 3rd low lvl group be in demand in opend? I would like to hear others views on this since I wished to open a VG of my own. Thank you