Curse

TheMosesPHD · Aug 06, 2006, 11:42 PM // 23:42

So I ended up in international 1 of a town today and came across a small cluster of RPers just...doing what they do. So I was wondering if anyone else has come across any groups of this dying creed, hiding away in lesser-traveled IDs to escape persecution? O.o

I was thinking, if these poor guys and gals have gotta sneak around in small groups in the IDs to avoid being mocked, I think it'd be nice of ANet to consider more seriously giving these ppls an RP district.

I have no interesting in RPing at all myself, but even so it seems sort of sad that the ppl that do have gotta sneak around in the shadows.

Any thoughts?

Age · Aug 07, 2006, 12:15 AM // 00:15

That is what they want an RP district as Inter. is it for now and that is the GWRPAssn.There is a thread in Sardalac about it.

TheMosesPHD · Aug 07, 2006, 12:26 AM // 00:26

Well ya I've heard people requesting RP districts for a very long time, but what I'm wondering is if ANet is ever going to take them seriously or just ignore them.

Age · Aug 07, 2006, 12:33 AM // 00:33

Probably just ignore them they have to many other things to do.They can have all the ID ones.

Angelica · Aug 07, 2006, 01:57 AM // 01:57

I'm confused! Care to explain?
I did not understand what you were talking about.
RP=solo player, is not possible in GW or is it?
Still confused and baffled.

Numa Pompilius · Aug 07, 2006, 02:05 AM // 02:05

The international district already is the inofficial RP server - you want to RP, that's where you go.

Angelica: RP = role-playing. As in, say, acting in-game as if you really were a paladin or similar.
Single-player/solo player is perfectly possible in GW, but it's not what is being discussed here.

Ken Dei · Aug 07, 2006, 06:37 AM // 06:37

The RPers should stop asking and just take over a district of their choosing by congregating there. I much rather hang out in an RP district then listen to the mindless racist crap and pointless shallow arguements I normally have to watch in between the spam.

Plushie Penguin · Aug 07, 2006, 06:43 AM // 06:43

from the sounds of things, they have, the district is just not fully their's

Arcador · Aug 07, 2006, 08:06 AM // 08:06

RP-ing in reasonable ammount is always wellcome

I will gladly try to search for those groups!

UBER HIGH GOSU RP servers sometimes are WAY too restricting. You cannot talk about names, cannot do some tactical things and a lot more stuff is forbidden since you "don't know that". I agree of some degree (I am playing and gamemastering in table rpg for 4+ years), but putting this in a game may become as I already said - way too restriting. I thing GW won't have that problem :P

Skyy High · Aug 07, 2006, 08:15 AM // 08:15

An RP-district will never happen, unless ANet decides to designate certain players as ingame GMs who can remove certain spammers/griefers from those "protected" districts. Otherwise, the RP districts will simply be overrun by idiots who find it funny to laugh at RPers.

fallot · Aug 07, 2006, 09:16 AM // 09:16

How about an RP channel in chat instead ? You could make large RP groups and talk in that channel (like team chat, only on a much larger scale). You wouldn't need GMs since the party leader could just kick offenders and you could turn off local if people laugh at you.

Wouldn't stop me rangerhumping RPers though, so its not a perfect idea.

Tyggen · Aug 07, 2006, 11:59 AM // 11:59

ID is full of RP people? I've seen a couple here and there, but mostly the closest thing to it I see are wammos humping rangers. Every time I go to ID I get flooded with asian trade messages, so I tend to disable local rather quickly.

Skids · Aug 07, 2006, 12:10 PM // 12:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius

Angelica: RP = role-playing. As in, say, acting in-game as if you really were a paladin or similar.

So do they speak like they are actually present in the game world? Like:

"Ho there knave, I doth espy a hoard of Hydras"
"Why Sire, thou doth speaketh the trutheth. Mighty fearsome creatures they be forsooth"

Not taking the mick, but I have no idea what RP is like - and if the above is true - or close then at least I know not to go near Int Dist's

Numa Pompilius · Aug 07, 2006, 12:14 PM // 12:14

It's not so that the ID _are_ RP districts, it's just the closest to it there is. There are very few people playing in ID, you can easily be the only players even in a place like Lions Arch or Ascalon. Ranger-humping wammos are quite few outside the PvP/ToA areas.

The exception are the farming spots, which are full of chinese farmers and their bots. I recall before griffon farming was fixed there were 7-10 districts in ID Augury Rock, with hundreds of Mo/W in each, but only one district of ID Lions Arch, and the ten people there were RP'ing.

Also, of course, Lions Arch gets invaded every time the Frog or Gaile Grey show up there (I always wondered how the hell people found out that the frog was going to speak?). Although that doesn't happen very often any more.

Skids: I'm not much of an RP'er myself, but I've never seen RP'ers try to speak Ye Olde English, probably because no one knows it very well so it just gets comical. It's just acting/saying things in a way you consider consistent with the era and the character you play in the game, rather than, say, shouting "MANCHESTER U RUELZ MILAN ARE GAY" while dry-humping a sitting monk. Unless you're role-playing a retarded football supporter who've passed through a timewarp.

Nexium · Aug 07, 2006, 12:47 PM // 12:47

what is RP-server thing that some ppl are asking about? ive heard wow had something like that i guess all i know is that ppl talk funny in RP server thingies??

Lady Lozza · Aug 07, 2006, 01:04 PM // 13:04

Nexium, people want an RP server to role-play, that is pretend they are their characters. It is a very old form of entertainment, and a number of us here (myself included) remember the days when RPG meant late nights and friends' places, a set of die and sheets and sheets of paper.

An RP and a trade district would be nice, but I'm not sure how practical either of these things are.

Numa Pompilius · Aug 07, 2006, 01:06 PM // 13:06

Reading earlier posts ftw.

Nexium · Aug 07, 2006, 01:34 PM // 13:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Lozza

Nexium, people want an RP server to role-play, that is pretend they are their characters. It is a very old form of entertainment, and a number of us here (myself included) remember the days when RPG meant late nights and friends' places, a set of die and sheets and sheets of paper.

An RP and a trade district would be nice, but I'm not sure how practical either of these things are.

ok but isn't like just playing the game whith friend's just the same as RP thing i mean you are playing a roll in the game allso, but i guees what you mean is that you whould like it too expand so you don't just hafto do it whith friend but make hmm global in GW..

Skids · Aug 07, 2006, 01:51 PM // 13:51

Ok I get it now. Gadzooks!!

But surely we all RP to some degree even if its subconsciously. I know when I get hit by an enemy I'm cursing like it was really me that got hit. When I approach a group I decide which is the best avenue of attack and when to make the move.

Of course I suppose a true RP'er would be hiding behind a rock as theoretically anyone outside his AOE would in RL still be visible. Also I guess they dont draw on the radar map?

It seems like something not really that different to what we play atm, but I reckon if I had to do it then it would feel too constrained. I also have a wicked sense of homour and so I would find it hard to resist taking the pi**

Lady Lozza · Aug 07, 2006, 01:59 PM // 13:59

For example, a paladin in character might say to a female ele: "How may I be of service to you fair maiden?"
The ele would perhaps reply: "I've been tasked with delivering these goods to the Settlement, but I am unsure of the way."
The paladin may then say: "I will show you the way." or "I myself, am uncertain, I'm sure we can forge a path together."

It might sound conceited to some people, but others really enjoy it. As for why they want a separate districts, they don't want to have to pick through the trash talk and trade.