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How does one start to learn propper rp - Erik-Kieber - 10-23-2017
Greetings everyone,
i know this might not be the best section, i acctualy had no idea where to post this so flood seems like the best place.
I know i said i would quit but after not playing for an day i reconsidered. That puts me in for a new ingame and outgame direction.
I want and need to learn how to properly rp within this forum and game, up to now i just played and rped in an order without doing much research. I need to change this behaviour and that is why i am here, how would you suggest for an practically new rper to start. I know i can be in a faction but that still does not seem to be it, i feel like i am missing much.
Some of you have so much and high end rp, how did you learn to get that good? Some of you have complete characters who mainly or just exist on the forum. Or those stories, i like that and it shows of an high level of ingame/outgame understanding and creativity. I would like to be that good but on my own and mainly ingame enouncters dont make me good.
Also i have just no idea how i would start such rp, it is like writing a book i imagine and it feels like such an mayor hurdle.
It also does not help that my bad trait seems to be to get discouraged, not that i dont try agian or from an different angle but it is an mayor flaw. Put to that that i sometimes tend to keep trying to much on a day my ADHD comes into play, that in turn causes some kinda anger and results in overreactions
That is why my post with them weapons grouping happend >_> sorry for that by the way. Now i am trying to be an beter and more developed player but agian, i have no idea how or where to start. At first i would like something deep but small, in time it would learn me to be beter in rp and fit beter within this comunity. Any suggestions are appreciated and i will try to learn from them all.
Thanks for reading and friendly regards,
Jack
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Sand-Viper - 10-23-2017
One of the best things to have contributed to my own RP skills: Reading.
Books are FULL of inspirational material! Whether it be personalities, quirks, or presentation style, I have learned much from simply picking up a good book from a genre I love and just diving in. Basing a character on one you read about can be a great way to get in character. One thing to ask yourself when roleplaying is, "What would my character do?" One subject you might find interesting could be boring for your character, while a subject you detest IRL could intrigue your character.
Sometimes a brainstorming sheet of paper can help.
What are my character's likes/dislikes?
Basic background? Go for something simple, but not cliche.
What fears, if any, does your character have?
What strengths/weaknesses? Are they greedy, yet cautious, for example?
Goals: Money? Becoming an ace pilot? Helping others? Other?
How does your character feel about X group? Studying commonly run-into factions can help with this.
Those are a few things to help you get started. I love books because they sometimes use intricate words that you pick up and learn to use in your own story!
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Nerva Regis - 10-23-2017
I don't know how much this will help but here it goes. (everything here is my subjective opinion and might be wrong
) I've started to RP about one and a half month ago:
Don't go for the big ships first (that was a truly dumb thing that I did), On one hand it's really hard to explain how you got the ship, and from my experience, most of the time it will hinder your movements around Sirius. I started with a Nephilim (bad idea...), and as I was saying, having that big ship did not allow me to explore as much as I wanted. I bought a Corvo, and started moving around the map.
Now... if you are like, you would have read a big part of the Bio and Stories thread hoping that would help. For me it had the opposite effect, the more I was reading the more I was thinking "Ok then, nothing for me to do here."
One day while roaming Kusari space, I met some pirates. Normally, I would just give my stuff or start shooting. But this time I thought, what if i would offer them some sake.... and that worked. The following week we started meeting more often, we started to RP on forum.
What I am trying to say is, If you manage to have an encounter with someone in game, don't be afraid to improvise. You never know where that can lead you. For me, meeting two people was enough, they introduced me to other people and the rest is history.
Another thing when it comes to forum RP. I always send a PM to ask about RP possibilities when dealing with people/factions that I have not met in game. Most of the time (99%) you will get a lot of info from those players; and, usually, you will manage somehow to set up a meeting in-game that will act as your starting point for Forum RP.
Uhm... another piece of advice, read as much as you can about people with whom you want to RP. And, yes, I am aware that is really hard to get a big picture of the whole DIsco RP Ecosystem. Take your time.
Have patience - I know, you want to get something nice done and start RP-in with everyone (trust me I was there and it was frustrating) .
Take breaks - You don't have to unload pages of RP in one day. That was another mistake that I did. Try to spread your RP over more posts. At start I my RP post were divided by days, but that was just too much for me. -> Ran out of ideas.
As @"Sand_Spider" said, reading books helps A LOT when building your char. But, there are also a lot of SCI-FI series. But you can go beyond the sci-fi genre.
I can give you a short breakdown:
Nerva - The Lost Starship by Vaughn Heppner
Regis - The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Unity - Since I've decided that my char will help everyone, I thought... Welp, that might be a good name.
Nerai - My AI companion - A mashup between Terran Adjutant and Andromeda Ascendant AI.
Oh, almost forgot. People will be mean to you. If they are mean just smile and wave.
I'll add more if you think this helps you.
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Sand-Viper - 10-23-2017
Taking breaks can help, too! It helps you from getting burned out, whether it be a break from one character in particular or a break from Freelancer altogether.
Interestingly, the books I mainly draw inspiration from are medieval in theme! Some are also investigative crime fictions.
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Thyrzul - 10-23-2017
Threads I've found in the Tutorials section related to getting started with your own RP after like a ten minutes search:
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=79841
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=117321
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=93181
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=150895
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=139709
Plenty of other stuff can be found in the Tutorials section, it exists for a reason and does it's job quite well. For getting started, that's the place you should visit. Not Flood.
Once you are past the basics, a few years of practive can get you where others are too after a few years of practice.
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=79841
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=117321
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=93181
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=150895
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=139709
Plenty of other stuff can be found in the Tutorials section, it exists for a reason and does it's job quite well. For getting started, that's the place you should visit. Not Flood.
Once you are past the basics, a few years of practive can get you where others are too after a few years of practice.
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Erik-Kieber - 10-24-2017
Many thanks everyone, you have given me a load of info to progress on.
This has given me some idea's and good directions, and i understand this is not being done in a month or so.
I will have to learn the lore and find my own way into it, also getting inspiration will be not hard but an lengthly progress due to my slow reading but it is worth it in the end.
@"Sand_Spider" Many thanks for that book tip, i would never have tought about creating book chars into this universe but once you said it it made sense. An existing char is afteral more easy to work with
Great tip *thumbs up*@Nerva Regis I think i am acctualy pretty decent in those ingame on the spot rp encounters but they have not lead me to deeper rp thus far, then agian. I never suggested to take a drink with pirates, nice work coming up with it. This is shurely something i will give an try . Also i had a vidar cruiser, not to explore lucky enough just to practise with in /conn and that was an mistake indeed. For the oncomming time i will stick to traders and gunboats maximal.
@Thyrzul Many thanks for those links, they shurely will make things a bit more easy for me to learn, altough i asked for personal experiences these links are great aswell. I hope this mod will have those years left for me to develop but that is something time will tell
Also, taking a break is sometimes hard for me. I dont see my annoyance building untill it is too late. I am always trying to watch for it but feelings... hard to control or recognize at times. If any of you guys think i should take a break at some point and dont see me do it, please let me know if willing too and posible. This would be much beter then my breakdowns i have shown thus far.
Again many thanks for these great tips, see you guys inspace. Stay frosty out there and have an blast
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - sindroms - 10-24-2017
There is an approach that I was told by a friend of mine for a WoW RP server they used to teach for newcomers.
Essentially, forgot any sort of idea regarding creating a new character from the ground up.
Basically, import a character you know personally inside and out. From a movie, game, book or whatever. Import them in everything but name and place them into Freelancer.
You can completely skip any sort of confusion and complications that comes with a new character from the ground up, because you already know how -that- character that you have picked will react to any situation the game throws at you. Once you have gotten accustomed to that, you can start tweaking the character bit by bit until it becomes an original creation.
When I was told this approach I was surprised that it isn't standard practice, really.
I am pretty certain one of our newcomer went with this suggestion and is basically running a more gritty Uncle Iroh in Space on the server. Sounds very odd when you state it like that, but within the roleplay environment, nobody will even guess that is the case unless you tell them.
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Karst - 10-24-2017
I'm not sure how helpful this advice is since you need other people for it, but the best way to learn roleplay is by playing a "real life" roleplaying game, like Dungeons and Dragons. When I came here I had been playing Pen & Paper RP for years, and coming up with characters and how they would act was easy.
There is no online environment that will can match P&P roleplay, because of the lack of a gamemaster and, honestly, the wildly variable degree of interest and ability to roleplay of the people you encounter.
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Erik-Kieber - 10-24-2017
Agian many thanks, some great tips
@sindroms It is a good idea, sadly i have none char i know inside out. As for now i will be reading some books i have, see how some of the characters could fit within this game and for inspiration.
@Karst You too good idea, sadly most people dont do D&D in this country. Roleplay all together is something most dont do over here
Only in recent years it has started to pick up but most are out of reach for me. Guess i should ask agian on my city facebook page and see if anything has changed in the past few years.
RE: How does one start to learn propper rp - Thyrzul - 10-24-2017
(10-24-2017, 08:25 AM)sindroms Wrote: Basically, import a character you know personally inside and out. From a movie, game, book or whatever. Import them in everything but name and place them into Freelancer.
You can completely skip any sort of confusion and complications that comes with a new character from the ground up, because you already know how -that- character that you have picked will react to any situation the game throws at you. Once you have gotten accustomed to that, you can start tweaking the character bit by bit until it becomes an original creation.
I can confirm this works. Looking back at my earlier self it kinda seems that I've done the same with my main character, albeit initially unintentionally. Provides a good basis to start from when you begin discovering the world you join with your character.