What is Roleplaying?

Slight change of subject:

What are your thoughts on text binds during team combat? Example: a stalker binding his assassination power with a local chat string that says, "Iron Slash!"

With two of my characters, I've taken the time to map several in-character phrases ranging from, "Where do you think *you're* going, $target?" for chasing down a mob; to, "Your fight's with *me*, $target!" to let the others know that I'm taunting or engaging a mob that's attacking a teammate.

I'm usually the only one on my group who seems to have bothered with it, but so far, I've received no outward complaints. Although when I group with a particular quiet set of people, I kind of feel I'm doing it too much when the chat space is filled with my character yelling out stuff in local speak... But about a quarter of the time, I find that one or two others start attempting the same in-character fighting, though I can tell that a lot of it isn't binded.

Just wanted to know how many of you guys would find that sort of thing annoying.


And on a side note, I started actually publicly interacting with my contacts. For example, after I complete a mission, I'd whip out the cellphone emote, "call" the contact, and respond to him or her in local. At first, I thought it'd be the equivalent of artistic masturbation -- as in just doing it without the intent of there being an audience... But more often than not, I'd notice one or two players drop by to see what all the commotion was about.

I'm not sure if they think I was being immersive... Or if I was just being stupid and/or crazy to talk to a non-interactive NPC. But I don't know, I feel as if I'm inserting myself into the story and game lore by adding my own little part to it. I do a lot of soloing now, just so I can pace myself and actually enjoy some truly engaging stories. I'm just wondering how awesome it would be to team up with a couple of other players who want to enjoy a group experience in the same way. Eg, one player "relaying" a contact's intel to the rest of the team, with everyone following and being engaged in the mission arc. Versus the usual monotonous XP grind...

Quote:
Jessica: "I'm pregnant."
Joseph: "Who's the father?"
Jessica: "You are. <dun dun DUN!>"
Quote:

Actually I prefer one, in a live RP situation. I might embelish it a bit with emotes, but I like to run lean and fast. In a story/RP post? Quote three is the better, choice, but of course the subject is bit mundane. Yes I know it's my subject.

I also bind emotes to attack powers. Jack tends to scream "Gravity Check" when thowning the big punch. My blasters call targets, I have a red side witch who keeps charms in her belt. These charms are inspirations so I've bound keys that say things like "X breaks open sulfer tablet to increase our damage.

From the plane, on my phone so forgive any errors.

Yah "Iron Slash" everytime you queue up power 1 would get annoying to teammates.

That dialogue reminds me of the winner of the story contest to write a short story using religion, royalty, sex, and mystery.

The Winner?

"My God!" said the queen, "I'm pregnant! I wonder who the father is?"

Any of those works, just depends on the character and their attitudes, A flippant one might use the <dun Dun DUUUUN> or a more serious one would not.

Funny enough, when roleplaying with others I stopped worrying if they were doing it right or wrong, cause the moment Ii began thinking the other person didn't know what they were doing, I would find out they were already three steps ahead of me, and I was too slow to figure out what was going on.

Now not in all cases, but what appears as leet speak might just be an individual from an alternate earth where humans and machines have merged and are almost interchangeable and speech has become onelongdatastring.punctuatedbyl33tjargon.IMHO.KTHX BYE which became a shorthand way of idea exchange for humans who were trying to communicate ideas very fast. :P

English isn't my first language either. I grew up speaking Southern. XD

While I applaud anyone who can spell perfectly AND still take on a group of purples, I find I'm lenient to a large degree because I know how hard it is to do so. Either in combat or even out of combat when your brain is working overtime trying to work out what YOUR character would do or what the others in your rp group are going to do, sometimes a mispelled word here or there is gonna happen AND backtracking to retype it correctly can break the flow of the RP. As long as the idea gets across with a minimum of signal noise "spelling and text" and and doesn't bother the flow of the RP I'm usually good with it.

On the other hand, if after Rping with a bad speller leaves me with a headache for trying to figure out what they were saying, I might not be soo excited to do so again. :P

I'm with Agonus on this issue. I use macros here and there, my most common one is a "let's go" type tagline mixed with an emote. For example, "Let's crack some skulls", and then emoting a cracking of the knuckles. Or little one-liners with taunt emote, etc.

So, yeah, go for it, in moderation they can make missions more fun.

I was just complimented by a player on my team for a little sequence of events with my binds.

I was playing an MA/NJ stalker on a team of 6. The brute accidentally pulled two mobs on us, causing the team to retreat. We made our way further back and started to rest, but one of the bosses, still somewhat week from our botched alpha strike, still held its agro on me and found his way to our rally point.

When I saw him, I fired off my binds:

Me: Local: "So you want me, $target? Well there's a price..." $$ Taunt1 emote.

I closed the distance while firing up build-up, landed right next him, and defeated him with an assassin strike.

Me: Local: "...Your life." $$ Crack knuckles emote.

I hopped back to the resting team, and whipped out a book and started reading as if nothing major had happened.

One of the players PM'ed me and said that from his perspective, it look "incredibly badass" and wished more players would do what I do. I've just been validated! ^_^

But yeah, even though I haven't received any complaints about the assassin strike local spam, I'm going to back off. I have a lot of varied one-liners to make the character interesting, but only one announcement for his assassination strike. There are a few variations, like tapping an enemy on the shoulder and then shouting the move in his face before completing the move, but I'll save it for select enemy encounters. Oh, and for the record, it's not "Iron Slash". That was just a hypothetical example.

Best use I've ever seen of a "Gather for X" buff bind was a Defender light RP stripper type character. Her version was something like "You want some of this?" timed with the ***-smacking taunt emote.

good luck D.B.B.

It's just that if it's too often and repetitive, it'd break the immersion more than enhancing it.

When I do things like that, I bind it to a power that has a cool down period of AT LEAST 5 minutes, if it's only a single line with no alternatives.

The more variety I have (using bind files), the more often I let myself use it!