Kordin wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 4:32 am
There are a few things in the works still that also pertain to this and obviously if you have an awesome idea that would help roleplay along and make this an actual Wheel of Time environment, Staff is all ears, so feel free to ping us with ideas or suggestions.
What kind of ideas and suggestions exactly are we talking about here?
Things that players can do for themselves and/or other players such as - RP interactions and events like festivals, or short interactions in squares, taverns, wherever....?
Or does this also include ideas for clan changes, zone changes, mobol, coding, quest systems....?
Smobbing has had attention in the sense of trinkets for groups, chance of a qp and so on. Dynamic smobs, even though they failed are another thing. There's heralds, there's oodletons of things.
Pk has had attenion in terms of transporation and faster travel, abilities to find eachother like the human blood flasks and so on.
RP 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.