Smuggler Archive
Thread: whats wrong with a little RP?
My character I use ingame is one I have is based off of a PnP starwars character I grew attached to. When I get a chance to I RP him the best of my ability. Sitting around in a cantina, peddling my wares, griping about various in character irritations...Then you have some 13 year old retard named something stupid(seen names like "average joe", "garlic cruton", etc), talking in moronese(ur, u, ne1, thx, plz, and other such AOL CS kiddie speak) totally ruining the atmosphere (Nice when you sit in a cantina Rping you manage to draw others into a RP encounter). Upon examining the retard you see it.....Yep, another peice of scum, a hologrinder, aka a powergamer, aka the LAST people that deserve a jedi character.
There really needs to be a strict ruleset RP server set in place, that allows character transfers, staffed by CSRs who actually care about maintaining a good enviroment.
Some servers are better than others for it. I joined Starsider on release because it was billed as the unofficial role playing server pre-launch. Because of this everyone and his sister tried to start up there at launch and a large chunk of those who wanted to role play ended up moving to other servers. I still think it's one of the better ones for RP content, but it's not what it should have been.
It's ironic that the sterotypical MMORPG player is seen as an uber 1337 player, often enough with a maturity of a 12 year old an attitude that might aswell be the person on the receiving end banging their head against a brick wall.Given the genre's title and it's potential to be such an involving fun way to play your chosen role in a different world,it's a neartragedy that those that want to be surrounded by fellow RPers all over their server cannot be. But then again, there's lots of things that don't live up totheir potential, many of the systems and experiences of this gameincluded. Let's hope they all manage to improve themselves as time goes by.
Make a hotkey.
"M.M.O.R.P.G.
Massively Multiplayer Online ROLE PLAYING GAME.
Whining about me roleplaying is like me playing a F.P.S. ( First Person Shooter )and whining about having to shoot at things."