Something sparked my interest

[TheJarl]

For me it's about the characters I play developing, which of course requires change in the world around them. That changes takes many different paths. I think about my own experience with the AFA when I think about this question. When I started playing the FA, I was basically the only player who played it, and basically the only player who had ever played it on the server. It was an open frontier, I was able to shape the NPC factions rp, as I shaped Ze'ev Barak's personal rp, and the rp of the AFA. This was long ago, and today, there arent really any factions that you can jump into and really define the identity of the faction, there are people who play almost every faction, and there is significant amounts of lore and player driven rp that is going on that has to be taken into consideration. I think more current examples of progression are the developments between the Order and the Corsairs, the Bretonian relationship with the Outcasts, and the developments between Kusari and Liberty.

I think a good way to judge development is whether other players jump on board with it. Developments like that can come from small groups or individuals, or from large factions or groups of factions.

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And it is still very much possible. As long as you put effort in it, your characters can influence their environment in a positive way. As you can guess from my signature and my avatar, I am a fanatic Hellfire Legion member, one of the things I love about [HF] is how we change(once exiles driven by revenge, now a politically-motivated rebel military. Once pirating, now fighting pirates etc.). As non-vanilla faction controlling that is of course easier, but for an individual to be able to change something in a faction is advancing for me.

Next to that is to have a character of which you RP multiple aspects of life. Not just a job (this is often the case with lawfuls) or a just private life (these are rarer than job-only I think. Mostly freelancers) But both. And to really have the character's life being a story, of course this can be done by forum RP, but what I like most is doing it mostly in-game, and forum RP more as extra or supporting.

I think I pretty much reached both of these with my main character Tharog Frosthearth. He has a love-live, has friends of every kind, even has 'sister' (by affection, not blood) He was lawful, but was declared rogue. And now? Now he is a high guy in the Hellfire Legion, he changed over time his views are influenced yet he is still somehow the same. That is all for the RPing his life as a story. As for the influencing of your chars environment, this same Tharog is also (in)famous in New York as the DJ of Hell FM:cool:. Hell FM is something I am honestly quite proud of. And another way in which I influenced my the RP environment: Guided by the rest of HF High Command I have written the last paragraph of the 'introduction' in the HF faction status (note: This is only in the actual faction status, the recruitment thread still needs updating)

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