Differences between blue and red

I would like to point out a very big distinction that seems lost on the OP:

The way your character is and the way you play on a team of strangers do not equate.

When you join a team, your playstyle will change. The only time it won't is when every person on the team knows you and accepts your playstyle (and/or plays the same).

If you are playing with strangers, most of those strangers really don't give a FIG what "your character" would or wouldn't do, nor "HOW" your character would or wouldn't do something. They care what "YOU" do and don't do, and "HOW" you do and don't do things. This is common sense.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Sorry for the double post, but I think the underlying point of my first one got lost in there.

When you are roleplaying as a jerk on a team where no one else is roleplaying, you are, in fact, being a jerk.

More kills=more xp=faster leveling.

Save the rp for rp teams.

I also blame the leader of the team once you decide to "sneak off" I would have then explained your role in the team,if you had a problem with it /kick I can always get another villain.

I wasn't trying to be a jerk myself.

What I mean is, if you are the only person on a team roleplaying your character and the character you are roleplaying is a jerk, then as far as the rest of the team is concerned it's you being the jerk.

If you want to roleplay at all times, seek out likeminded people. You can find roleplayers on just about any server if you look hard enough. My suggestion would be to post something in the forum for the server you play on seeking out other roleplayers. If everyone is on the same page as far as roleplaying goes the situation you encountered will be much less of an issue.

Okay your playstyle and commitment to RP are your business and Solo or with a team of friends that know your style and have no problem with is fine. If you are going to TEAM with anyone else you might want to consider their needs and methods. Like others here I have no idea what was said in tell etc, but here are a few things to consider

1. Not every team or player does missons (any mission not just the PocketD one) simply to get a badge orthe end XP bonus. Just yesterday I took a 17 level blaster to level 20 doing thos same missions on an 8 man team. I also came away with a goood deal of salvage and recipes, including several rares, that did NOT drop at mission complete but while fighting the mobs to get to the end. How much XP, INF and potential salvage/recipes/enhancement did you cost 7 other players on that team?

2. Seems like it was the Hero mission you skipped ahead on BUT some people are badgers and the response to your method could easily have been the same if you used that tactic villain side on a team frying to farm for Weedwacker and Colblooded badges. Of course that's not the case here but just an example of another way you MIGHT have ticked people off with your approach.

3. Not every player has unlimited time to just play COX. If you are soloing and just want to run ahead and get a quick Mission Complete skipping all the XP available from taking out mob ..fine. I have no problem on TFs using stealth to cut the times and finish quicker.. I did an All Controller KHTF that completed in 19 minutes. On the other hand a long time ago I decided to just SEE how much XP ect I earned by defeating everything in a mission as opposed to skipping ahead to the end. Soloing I carefully recorded how much I earned getting to MC and the result was better than 100% of what I earned for the end bonus. Using your method you have to do AT least twice as many missions to attain the next level if no more. Sure you are moving faster cause your not stopping to battle every mob but not only are you giving up XP and INF you miss out of enhancement drops, Recipe drops and salvage drops that can either make your character stronger or by selling everything richer. Now if your fine with that its perfectly okay but you joined a team and did you ever stop to consider that MAYBE the other 7 players wanted all those extra perks you bypassed by running off without consulting anyone and finishing the mission?


Roleplay can be fun, I am on Virtue so I see it everywhere, but there is a time and play for it. I don't mind a player on team stayimh in character and and talking the way he or she thinks their character should talk. But I used to team with an old SG member who formed teams and NEVER left his character's persona. He drove people nuts feeling the need to ptoclaim things like "I'll go visit with my contact now and see what other adventures may be instore for us." This was before he moved from the entrance to the mission we just completed. Once he finally made the trip to the contact he felt the need to all but word for word pass along all the "vital" deteails the contact had given HIM before he would ste the mission so we could move on to it and actually PLAY the game. All that RPing added time between every single mission we did and over the course of a night cost us added mission, added XP/INF/SALVAGE/RECIPES/ENHANCEMTS and levels. Players dropped from his teams left and right causing even more delays whilke he searched for replacements. Like I mentioned above... some people only have a few hours a night and even only a few days each week when they can actually PLAY the game and try to work their way to level 50. Roleplay that makes that harder for them, like your method or the team leaders STYLE, cost them precious time and levels. If you join a team the least you could have done is sent a tell to the leader and asked... "I can stealth to the end and finish this quickly if you'd like?" If the answer had been SURE GO AHEAD. You would have been fine. If not as a team member you should have played the way the TEAM wanted to play. Role Playing that you are rude, obnoxious and uncaring is fine but a play style that is rude, obnoxious and uncaring will get you kicked off most treams and mutliple nasty tells almost every time.

I once roleplayed a toon that was mute.
I found it extremely difficult to respond to tells asking me if I was LFT.

It sounds like this whole episode was a major breakdown in communications. You should have told the team you planned to ghost the mission, and gotten their okay first before you just went and did it. You've gotta understand that as a roleplayer, you're in the minority in this game, so most people won't realize (or care) that you're acting a certain way for roleplaying reasons. If you treat them badly in-character, that will reflect on you as a player. It sounds like for that character, you'd be best off just sticking to solo play. If you do need to team with a PuG for some reason, make sure they understand that you're roleplaying and are okay with it before things get started, and if they're not okay with it, then either drop the act for long enough to do what you need to do, or quit and find another team.

You were teaming with people who think of you as a player first, roleplayer second. If people aren't willing to put up with the character you're roleplaying, you should probably change or temporarily stop it.

Teaming makes things different, because you cannot necessarily role play your character and be a good addition to the team. For example, from the villain point of view, you might see that you need someone heroic to complete the mission, clear out the baddies, then find a hero weaker than you are and hold a gun to their head until they do what you need them to do. But you cannot really team like that and expect the hero's player to appreciate it, unless you've both agreed you'll heavily role play the situation.


All that said, if the team was upset because they wanted to clear it, there was nothing stopping them from clearing after the objective was met and the mission was over. If they exited and complained about it, that's their fault. We frequently will clear after the exit button is up, and they certainly could have done the same.