A note on how we do things.
Sometimes there are misunderstandings with newer people to the community with how we operate. Hopefully this will dispel any potential confusion.
Unlike other MMOs and their RP servers, such as LoTRO or WoW, we are out of character by default even in local chat. Despite the login message for our world, there are actually and absolutely no roleplay rules or enforcement by Jagex. Whereas you could be straight up banned in LoTRO for trolling in local chat, no one would receive such a punishment here (unless they violated the normal game rules, such as using offensive language). Likewise, there is no ultimate enforcement to be in character or anything else that would help our scene flow more easily.
Because of this, you could say we've more or less given up on trying to have a seamless and cohesive scene that's as neat as seeing someone and knowing they're in character and other such niceties that would make this all a bit more smooth and I daresay... better . We would likely have no problem with this (I myself would love that!) but we can't enforce it ourselves because we don't have decisive ability. A variety of things prevents this from working. People choosing to have our worlds as their home world when they don't RP (why? who knows) and no repercussion for disrupting RP are the largest culprits. Even if the lot of us tried to always be in character, those that don't RP but use our worlds outnumber us and it'd be a headache for us anyways.
And there's just nothing we can do about that until (and if) something is done to make the roleplay worlds more intuitive for our ways.
So. That said. Our play is relegated to sessions rather than being continuous. You go in character for a session, then you go out of a character at a suitable bookmark spot.
But this is not to say that's a rule. Not at all. You will not be frowned upon if you choose to remain in character most the time.
[cont. below] Save yourself.
Savior self.
Sometimes there are misunderstandings with newer people to the community with how we operate. Hopefully this will dispel any potential confusion.
Unlike other MMOs and their RP servers, such as LoTRO or WoW, we are out of character by default even in local chat. Despite the login message for our world, there are actually and absolutely no roleplay rules or enforcement by Jagex. Whereas you could be straight up banned in LoTRO for trolling in local chat, no one would receive such a punishment here (unless they violated the normal game rules, such as using offensive language). Likewise, there is no ultimate enforcement to be in character or anything else that would help our scene flow more easily.
Because of this, you could say we've more or less given up on trying to have a seamless and cohesive scene that's as neat as seeing someone and knowing they're in character and other such niceties that would make this all a bit more smooth and I daresay... better . We would likely have no problem with this (I myself would love that!) but we can't enforce it ourselves because we don't have decisive ability. A variety of things prevents this from working. People choosing to have our worlds as their home world when they don't RP (why? who knows) and no repercussion for disrupting RP are the largest culprits. Even if the lot of us tried to always be in character, those that don't RP but use our worlds outnumber us and it'd be a headache for us anyways.
And there's just nothing we can do about that until (and if) something is done to make the roleplay worlds more intuitive for our ways.
So. That said. Our play is relegated to sessions rather than being continuous. You go in character for a session, then you go out of a character at a suitable bookmark spot.
But this is not to say that's a rule. Not at all. You will not be frowned upon if you choose to remain in character most the time.
[cont. below] Save yourself.
Savior self.
08-Apr-2015 20:03:44 - Last edited on 15-Aug-2016 05:25:06 by DMMetalaane