Probably already thought of, but anyway...Elysia wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 8:57 pmRP has had zero attention. Even if I hop around the place to see if there's anything going on, chances are, there isn't. If I try to initiate something, often someone goes "ah, the imm wants to RP". No, we want players to opt for RP and enricht the environment. Obviously people need help, encouragement, features, something to assist with that, just like other key areas of the mud have.
RP is just tricky, because I suspect that many roleplayers are not the type to splash all their interactions on roleplay forums, or even clan forums. So many interactions just fly under the radar of essentially everyone, making some people feel that it's not happening at all. I also suspect that any prospective roleplayers who lay eyes on the RP forum will decide the game is not for them.
So if anyone can think of ideas on how players or imms can do things that will make RP more valid as a part of character development, in the sense of roleplay being awarded qps, maybe perks that are exclusive to RPers, things that will encourage RP or being IC, ways that will ensure all this has an even spread so it's not just the popular people getting rewarded etc.
In a day and age where we still get emails like a copy/ paste of someone's qps and a "so what's next?" mail for mastering... looong way to go.
Hell, even things like writing "how to RP an Andoran" might help for all I know. Either way, this cannot solely be an immortal endeavor. We don't have eyes everywhere. For RP, there's usually multiple players around, meaning that players are an essential part of this. Hence the question of how we can make this work.
What about rewarding people for also giving rpkudos? 1 qp for every 10 rpkudos given? And the equivalent for non clanned, whatever it is...cash?
Certain amount for every mandatory RP letter, whether it's for R7 or applying to a clan or ranking if a clan has that requirement? Just add a requirement to cc Staff (or a differnet account, Voices?) whenever such a letter has to be sent.
Maybe a chit that loads each boot, on a random smob, can't be rented, boot eats it, and it doubles or triples RPkudos awards? Might get people to RP instead of just run through smobs while barely speaking or solely staying OOC?
Really the rest that comes to mind has either been suggested, or is again the obvious and/or already done - i.e. festivals.