Role players How to seprate them from normal gamers
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Posted on: 2012-04-24 10:35 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by later_k
Im not sure this is even the right place to post this but maybe a developer will read it a say that my idea is a good one instead just a complaint so here goes.
Problem Role Players are always using broadcast and local chat to spam the start zone and any other zone they feel like hanging out in . Solution make a chat channel that is for role play chat only. That way us non role player can be left in peace. Second problem how do I know if this person wants to role play or just play the game. Answer you already have the help me and helper tags people can turn on. Add a third Roleplayer tag that all of them can turn on to let anyone who looks at them know at a glance that they welcome Role-play. thats all I got to say If any of this sounds like a good idea or just hogwash feel free to let me know. |
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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Just make everyone fill out a 140 character form of their history to get through a gate. RPers will never be able to do it.
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i'm guessing you're either not serious, or... uhm... "sheltered".
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Originally Posted by later_k
Im not sure this is even the right place to post this but maybe a developer will read it a say that my idea is a good one instead just a complaint so here goes.
Problem Role Players are always using broadcast and local chat to spam the start zone and any other zone they feel like hanging out in . Solution make a chat channel that is for role play chat only. That way us non role player can be left in peace. Second problem how do I know if this person wants to role play or just play the game. Answer you already have the help me and helper tags people can turn on. Add a third Roleplayer tag that all of them can turn on to let anyone who looks at them know at a glance that they welcome Role-play. thats all I got to say If any of this sounds like a good idea or just hogwash feel free to let me know. |
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I know I and some others use it when there's a particularly loud noise that other people would be able to hear and react to. This is especially true in a base, where Broadcast is much more limited and the people around are likely RPers as well.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
(never personally seen them use broadcast on Virtue)
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Just Go to a Server that does not have RP on it, just because you don't like, Doesn't mean other don't.
I Believe the Devs Favor it and I no people, good friends who Rp as well, once in a while I do it as well.
There should be a Rp Chat Channel I agree with you there, Also I think you should not Cut them alway form the rest of None RPers Also.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
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We definitely don't need an RP channel.
However, this game could use a NonRP channel for all of the out of character chatting people seem to do.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
We definitely don't need an RP channel.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
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Edit: Reading the rest of the thread:
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Obligatory repeat of everything said, though, I don't think a RP channel would work. I mean, is it going to ask you some Lore questions or something before you're allowed to enter? :P
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I believe that's a convention carried over from IRC roleplay. At least, that's where I first saw that convention. This was back in the mid-to-late 1990s, mind you.|
Originally Posted by DLancer
You know someone is a roleplayer when they start ((talking like this to denote out of character chat)) squawking like a duck.
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I always read it as a stage whisper.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
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Just keep being you; it's endearing in a certain light. i'm guessing you're either not serious, or... uhm... "sheltered". |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'm not by any means a roleplayer when it comes to MMO's, however I'm a bit curious as to how the random roleplayer using the local chat (never personally seen them use broadcast on Virtue) is any more disturbing than the countless "LFG DFB"s would be to them.
In other words; we choose not to segregate our Community based on play style and I (personally) feel we're the better for it. Understanding, and being exposed to, different ways of enjoying the game should be considered an opportunity, not a hinderance. And if something is really annoying you, ignore is just a right click away. P.S. I am not encouraging you to participate in any...inappropriate...behavior around others. |
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I have never, ever seen role playing spam in broadcast or local. I have seen lots LF DFB spam, but not RP. The genuine role players also don't generally repeat the same thing over and over. The guy repeatedly hitting his battlecry button probably isn't an RP'er, he's just a jerk.
PS I hardly ever RP myself past the point of writing character bios. And I could really use more characters for some of those.
PPS And if you're playing on Virtue, all I can say is, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." And I'm pretty sure they don't stand around Ms. Liberty to do their RP'ing there anyway.
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Originally Posted by eth_Nargy
I'm really too disheartened to find a facepalm image. Can someone else do it for me?
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There ya go.
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Those are all RPers roleplaying that they are "normal gamers" like the OP. |
Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
I have never, ever seen role playing spam in broadcast or local. I have seen lots LF DFB spam,
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I think the real question is...
How did such a normal person gain access to these forums??
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