Discovery "RP" 24/7

[LegendOfTheWolf]

This is a thread that has seriously spiked my interest.

I've been played on and off since 2009, and slowly learning RP skills, as well as PvP. At the time I started I was brand new to Role-play, and what it consisted of. Hell, I remember flying a Liberty Assault Ship (It was an import of SW at the time) into Gamma and was wondering why everyone was hostile to me in chat.

Through this learning and evolution of gameplay, I noticed that people would openly log, and stay logged for some time. Flying around aimlessly for no reason apart from finding RP with people.

As the 'meta' of PvP changed, so did Role-play. I feel Modern-day Discovery is a meta-game of Skype/Discord Alert pings. People log in when they see a threat, remove said threat, and then log off again.
And I'll admit, I am also part of the problem.

I've been surprised by certain players, who may appear to be PvP Whores, actually, stop after a fight, and sit outside a station and Role-play.

Recently as well, I remember RPing with some Auxisia in Baffin, and a friend in the faction. And he was shocked by how long we had sat stationary and just typed lines after lines out. For me, this was the way of Discovery back in the day. I'd say about 40% of RP ended with PvP, while 60% Contributed towards personal RP.

As much as I would love for the days of "Sit outside a Freeport and talk to characters you'd never think to be interacting with" with the current population, I doubt it would earn many interactions.

I feel that characters have become a lot more generic as in "I want to join BAF, I am BAF, I share the same hostilities as the BAF share" - Though this may be okay RP, why not add a small little spice to it, make your sister a Gaian or something, something which would make interacting with the group different.

I've been ridiculed and been avoided because my Unione Corse Character used to be LSF. "Why make her ex-LSF, Wolf? Why though?" - Simple. Because it's a developed character from like 10 years ago. I try to develop my characters as much as I am allowed to InRP and in Server rules. And of course, there will be inRP consequences for doing so, but that's literally Role-play.

And even as you said Haste: "If anyone goes out of their way to roleplay, they're most of the time doing it just because they're chasing some special snowflake SRP". Snowflakes are snowflakes, but it's their RP, let them do what they want to do.

I feel the community needs to stop being a high school band of girls, moaning and whining when they see something they don't like. "Oh no, they hang around in vc with XYZ, I ain't going to RP with them" - Why not? Because you'll lose your 'street cred'?


I feel a small solution, for now, would be a simple message in Discord ( whichever group ) and saying - Hey, I got 2 hours, anyone wanna RP?
Players have countless characters, so if someone does answer, it'll be a 'Which one do I want to develop?"

I am interested in peoples ideas though.

Ps. You'll get lolwuts still, but at least you can begin to teach them RP, and evolve them into a decent Roleplayer within the community.

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