Do we need an Official RPing server?

Pocket D is the easiest place to find RPers to grief. An official RP server would have RPers all over the place, and also people would have more places to grief RPers. To make an official RP server would perhaps add more RPing to the game, but it'd also add problems by increasing griefers. It's using a flamethrower to kill a fly. It'd kill the fly, but it'd also cause many problems with it.

Since Virtue is the unofficial RP server, you're using a fly swatter to kill a fly. You can kill the fly, and have some mess afterwards, but it's not hard to manage the mess.

I love the hysteria over a tag, that will never come. An RP tag doesn't destroy anything of the things, I see people upset about might happen.

I also disagree roleplayers are less tolerant. In fact, show me a server with an RP tag (in games that have them), and I'll show you one of the most pleasant servers to play on in terms of maturity. So much so, that roleplayers become the minority on RP-tag servers, because so many non-roleplayers will join an RP server, because they are so tolerant and pleasant to play on.

Not that it matters, it will never happen, but for the records RP tags aren't a mechanism to destroy or punish non-roleplayers, at least not to the hysteria and rants here suggest they are. They are mostly there to help newbies to the game find a place that will comfortably accept their hobby.

There are extreme examples where people had to change their name from Haxx0r M0mma had to something else, but in a Super Hero game, this is a perfectly acceptable name, perhaps a Freakshow-derived character or something. So even that would be tolerated in COH, an RP tag changes nothing.

With the tag, a new roleplayer, wouldn't have to google for an hour to find where roleplayers congregate, or wonder if roleplaying even exists in the game. They would know, the company would say, "you are welcome, and you are most welcome here". It's just a welcome mat, nothing more.

Seeing a number of threads on other game forums, and facebook asking if roleplayers play game A or B, or where roleplayers should go for game A and B, clearly there is a need for roleplayers to know this info, a tag helps ease this passage.

Is the tag vitally necessary? No. Am I upset there isn't one? No. If the tag did come, would it be a threat to non-roleplayers? No. Ask the hundreds of thousands of non-roleplayers on RP servers and they will tell you that it is not a threat.

Are roleplayers more intolerant than your average gamer? Sorry, in my experience that is a lie. We are just as tolerant and intolerant as any other gamer. We have the same weaknesses, no more, no less, myself included.

Really, in my experience, the most intolerant gamer, is the frustrated-power gamer, who insists his missions/quests/raids run like clockwork, and screams at his team when they don't. Where's that video of the WOW raid, where the guild leader is screaming into VENT about the end of the dungeon raid when it goes astray? Now that's intolerance. Fortunately it's a very small minority of power-gamers.

I roleplay in non-RP groups all the time, I get complaints, but they are rare. I've never seen roleplayers complain that a non-RP group isn't playing their character right. That's usually some nerd who has six level 50's of your exact archetype and feel compelled to lecture on how to play a kid's game, as if the silly game is actually a science instead of just the mindless distraction and amusing hobby that it is.

But, if you want to believe an RP tag would be apocalyptic, go ahead. It's not true in my experience, but perhaps my bias doesn't seem the utter catastrophe the tag would create.

Even on Virtue outside the D you can get a little grief for RPing. Happened to me once even. Felt a little like talking on one of my characters and started up a little conversation near the tram in Talos. A very "friendly" fellow kept sending me "nice" little messages wondering why I was rolepaying in public.

Ah well I had fun with the talk and ignoring the "nice" little comments. Personally I just think you should let people play how they want where they want as long as they are not being rude, crude or totally disruptive.

I think designating a server as the "official roleplaying server" would only serve to alienate the casual players and roleplayers - especially if rules were enforced as described above. More often than not I'm playing the game OOC just to have fun and normally only start roleplaying if someone else is doing it.

I also think it says a lot about a group of roleplayers if they throw a public hissy fit about people that have just as much of a right to be in Pocket D as they do, roleplaying or not. Public areas are, in fact, public.

I do not like the powergamers in this game. They exist, trust me. You need to be built a specific way, you need these powers, they need to be slotted this way, and some powers are useless in the game. If you do not have any set bonuses you cannot join their team because you'd "slow them down".

I have seen some of them on Virtue, but in general, most people on Virtue are more mature than that and won't tell you how to play. Also, if you have a concept for a character, on Virtue it'd work better than on other servers. We're more tolerant for those things.

Why exactly is this even an issue up for discussion?

Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Just because a small albeit loud minority wants to whine about it doesn't make it an issue. I've RP'd on three different servers and never once ran into a issue, that includes Victory, Virtue and Freedom.