RP server in issue 20.5

I will fisticuffs everyone who confuses roleplaying game mechanics with roleplaying social interaction.

Whoah Encharger is back.

Personally, yet ironically enough, after being here for over a year now, I rarely RP because I get too easily annoyed by what is normally taken as "RP" here and what I define as RP (IE if you play a god, don't talk to me). However, thats my issue and nobody else's and I wouldn't force it on anyone, just as I wouldn't force anyone to RP if they didn't want to.

However, I will say that in every MMO, I fully believe there needs to be a system in place that rewards people on behavior and mannerisms. This may seem rather pedantic and childish to some but I do think if any server should be made, it should be a place for people who wish to get away from griefers, idiots or the random filth that crowds always seem to draw. That's not saying it should be elitist, but something made for those people who actually know what being a good player means, justified by their manners, maturity level and attitude.

I just know that I am tired of seeing good RP'ers hide in the corners, on buildings or in their bases, afraid of being hassled by someone who will either grief them or break their moment. You don't RP? That's fine.. That doesn't give you the right to bother anyone else. And if an RP team works, then one person who doesn't RP shouldn't dictate whether they do or not.

My feelings over the year I have been on Virtue has changed and I have been told it is just a momentary slip but I still remember just last summer when small groups would RP together under Atlas for a few hours while not being bothered by random idiots. But of course, things are different now and my ignore list is bursting.

Oddly enough, I think I have found the majority of good RP and players villain side which I suppose makes some type of sense. I only wish playing Red side wasn't so annoying to me (not the players, the maps/mechanics).

I do what I want when I want, ight?!

I love roleplaying. Every single one of my characters, even the throwaways that don't ever see level 10 before being fed to the great woodchipper in the sky for their server slot, has a bio. Sometimes it's just a sentence until the inspiration hits to flush it out to 800+ characters. Every costume is built around personality traits.

I roleplay in local, supergroup, and coalition primarily. Team and league if it's a RP team or league.

With all that said a dedicated RP server is a terrible idea. It stagnates the pool. I once stood in a neutral town in Anarchy Online and gave a speech explaining why the rebels were wrong and that it wasn't too late to come over to the winning side. In short order I had dozens of people joining the discussion, with more people filtering in asking 'is this an event'. Most of these people had never so much as considered speaking 'in character' - and more than a few new roleplayers were born, joining me (or the other side, who had their own RP leader show up three minutes after I started despite it not being a planned inner-guild event).

I see the calls for a RP VIP server and I shake my head. RP is one of the things a free player can do without becoming a VIP - why hide away from that instead of encouraging it?

Also in my MMO experience an RP server rarely ends up about RP. People I know tend to pick them because on average they have less people running around with stupid character names.

Then again, one of my alts is a half-human/half-efreet King in exile from a fictitious state named 'my Lord' for the NPC interaction hilarity.

Hero Register: "Welcome to the hero registration desk. What name shall you be known as to the people of the city?"
King Alphonso: "I am a King. People shall call me 'my Lord', as is proper."
HR: "... well, I guess it's better than 'lolcatgirlzRsexah131'. Welcome to the city, my Lord. (God I need a vacation."