(12-19-2017, 08:16 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: Welcome to roleplaying in general, friend. This sort of stuff pops up in every setting, every game, every world, across anything that is open to the public.
The trick is to just get into the thick of it and eventually learn who to encourage and who to avoid. XIV has its share of characters both good and bad, cool and ugly. It's a give and take thing: You can sure cut off the entire community if you want and just put yourself on a pedestal (universal you, not you, Mermaid) but that just means you're potentially missing out on a lot of cool people who'd otherwise want to hop in.
Like all hobbies, roleplaying requires a degree of work to get your maximum return. Some people are content to never do the work, but those people are usually the ones bitching about how there's nothing to do, no one to talk to, or how dead a seemingly populated server is.
Edit: In terms of people who "look problematic" do you think you're able to make that kind of snap judgment in a matter of short moments in a crowded place?
I agree, people powerplaying and making improbable/impossible characters is just par for the course in RP. I've been RPing for well over a decade and seen dozens if not hundreds of characters similar to the examples, as well as people with more appropriate sounding character concepts but who RP to "win" and can't stand their character losing or not being the best, or just people who have a very specific plot in mind they don't want derailed in any way even though they haven't taken proper measures to secure it (such as, example from the post above: discussing an assassination openly in a city and expecting no eavesdropping or intervention).
I know how bad things can go when you're role-playing with someone who's not on the same page about what's realistic or fair, and I totally understand and agree with the desire to avoid these people to prevent future issues. Personally, I just find the best approach to be wiggling myself out of those situations when they arise (or seem imminent) rather than have people run everything by me OOC to approve or decline beforehand. The RP flows more organically and believably, everyone gets a chance, and no one feels slighted or excluded unless they've already blown said chance. But at the end of the day that's just my opinion on what I think is best for the RP/community and what works for me. I think I have a much more go-with-the-flow approach to RP than a lot of others do in recent years.
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