Hello all!
I must admit I've only been playing Ryzom for about a week, and despite doing fairly extensive research on the lore I have little in game experience. I'm sorry if this post is premature or irrelevant, but I think it could be, so I've decided to share it anyway. I've also discussed it with other players and they seem to agree so far, so I decided to ask all of you.
Do you think Ryzom (perhaps not all of it, but specifically the english-speaking community) needs a bit more casual roleplay, independent of political turmoil and religious difference?
Don't get me wrong, they're both great motors for driving a story arc and forming guilds and factions. However, they're also incredibly intimidating to start off with if you're new to the game or new to RP. Playing along those lines requires extremely ind-depth knowledge about every faction, the power struggle between them, and every current detail relevant to their situation.
Mostly, people who aren't inordinately enthusiastic about roleplay don't want to talk about that. They want to meet other characters, share their story and learn the stories of others, form links and relationships and just generally socialize, the serious stuff comes after (or it comes in smaller, more approachable doses).
I think perhaps the political angle and high level of roleplaying in the english community has sort of alienated the rest of it from roleplaying altogether. In several days wandering around Fairhaven I've only met one other roleplayer, and that was through repeatedly asking in the "region" chat whether anyone was interested.
What are your thoughts on this, homins? Is this a false impression, or could we strive as a community to recreate more casual roleplaying revolving around the characters themselves and how they relate to one another? I think it could help bolster the RP community by creating links between them but also by getting more players who haven't tried it before into the concept (I've already explained what roleplaying is to two players and they've shown a lot of enthusiasm).
I must admit I've only been playing Ryzom for about a week, and despite doing fairly extensive research on the lore I have little in game experience. I'm sorry if this post is premature or irrelevant, but I think it could be, so I've decided to share it anyway. I've also discussed it with other players and they seem to agree so far, so I decided to ask all of you.
Do you think Ryzom (perhaps not all of it, but specifically the english-speaking community) needs a bit more casual roleplay, independent of political turmoil and religious difference?
Don't get me wrong, they're both great motors for driving a story arc and forming guilds and factions. However, they're also incredibly intimidating to start off with if you're new to the game or new to RP. Playing along those lines requires extremely ind-depth knowledge about every faction, the power struggle between them, and every current detail relevant to their situation.
Mostly, people who aren't inordinately enthusiastic about roleplay don't want to talk about that. They want to meet other characters, share their story and learn the stories of others, form links and relationships and just generally socialize, the serious stuff comes after (or it comes in smaller, more approachable doses).
I think perhaps the political angle and high level of roleplaying in the english community has sort of alienated the rest of it from roleplaying altogether. In several days wandering around Fairhaven I've only met one other roleplayer, and that was through repeatedly asking in the "region" chat whether anyone was interested.
What are your thoughts on this, homins? Is this a false impression, or could we strive as a community to recreate more casual roleplaying revolving around the characters themselves and how they relate to one another? I think it could help bolster the RP community by creating links between them but also by getting more players who haven't tried it before into the concept (I've already explained what roleplaying is to two players and they've shown a lot of enthusiasm).