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Of course you may join @Huntress Asa, would be glad to have you.
I quickly made a little "guide" on how to join friend chats if others aren't sure how to. Might as well since I've got nothing else to do today and my feet feel like they're blistering from all the walking, so I'll make this guide to make it absolutely crystal clear on how to join my FC or others.
Step 1, look for these two Icons:
The left one simply displays only friendchat messages, though iirc you can see it also in all chat unless disabled. The one on the right indicates the friend chat's "settings" (refer to step 3) and where you can see other members online.
Step 2, look for this icon.
If you don't have the previous icons in your chatbox, hover over this icon, then click the identical ones in image 1 to have both appear on the chatbox.
Step 3, This is what the "settings" interface looks like
Note that if you're not in a FC, the "leave" option becomes "join". This is where you see all the other FC members.
Step 4, Joining
You'll be prompted with this interface to join someone's FC. It goes by a person's username, so using "Nathmatics" (as is seen in the image) and hitting enter will join said person's friendchat.
And that's about it! Hope it helped.
Want to get in contact with me?
Discord: nathmatics
I quickly made a little "guide" on how to join friend chats if others aren't sure how to. Might as well since I've got nothing else to do today and my feet feel like they're blistering from all the walking, so I'll make this guide to make it absolutely crystal clear on how to join my FC or others.
Step 1, look for these two Icons:
The left one simply displays only friendchat messages, though iirc you can see it also in all chat unless disabled. The one on the right indicates the friend chat's "settings" (refer to step 3) and where you can see other members online.
Step 2, look for this icon.
If you don't have the previous icons in your chatbox, hover over this icon, then click the identical ones in image 1 to have both appear on the chatbox.
Step 3, This is what the "settings" interface looks like
Note that if you're not in a FC, the "leave" option becomes "join". This is where you see all the other FC members.
Step 4, Joining
You'll be prompted with this interface to join someone's FC. It goes by a person's username, so using "Nathmatics" (as is seen in the image) and hitting enter will join said person's friendchat.
And that's about it! Hope it helped.
An apologetically, unofficial representative for World 42
Want to get in contact with me?
Discord: nathmatics
21-Mar-2022 17:57:16
Thank you! That was a very helpful tutorial!
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21-Mar-2022 20:05:42
I've been gone from the RSRP community for a good number of years, but I recently returned to the game just to check things out and do some of the content Jagex has pushed out.
I'd be lying if I said my mind hasn't turned to RP once or twice - which I guess is obvious since I ended up on this forum page.
I don't know if its a helpful insight, but I've rp'd on pretty much any MMO you can imagine that has come out or existed between 2012 and now, and I've observed a few things about what constitutes successful "Thriving" rp, at least for me personally.
I think a good formula for success is (Healthy) Conflict, and accessibility.
Conflict, while it hasn't had a good history in RSRP on an OOC level, I think is a good catalyst for story and change in a roleplay world - and one that RSRP can uniquely benefit from since RS has an unmirrored take on the world, being that players ignore a lot of NPC world leaders. I think creating situations with risk in the RP world could greatly benefit the remaining community, and can be done in a healthy productive way. We didn't always handle it well in the past, but (I assume) we were all fairly young.
POK leaders have a unique responsibility of creating rp for others - I don't mean to pass the buck, but when you're hosting a part of the map, it should fall to the leading players to make sure their region is active and invite players with reasons to come and visit to interact. To pull this thought together, they can provide growth and cultivate Freelance by providing a platform and creating open stories for people who want to engage.
My recommendation (take with a grain of salt, I have very little understanding of the current state of RP) would be as follows:
1. Create one platform of easy communication for the community, to share when people are gathering to RP.
2. POK leaders rally their people, and RP open and often in their spaces to draw freelance. Share their stories and breathe life into their tiles.
3. Profit.
I'd be lying if I said my mind hasn't turned to RP once or twice - which I guess is obvious since I ended up on this forum page.
I don't know if its a helpful insight, but I've rp'd on pretty much any MMO you can imagine that has come out or existed between 2012 and now, and I've observed a few things about what constitutes successful "Thriving" rp, at least for me personally.
I think a good formula for success is (Healthy) Conflict, and accessibility.
Conflict, while it hasn't had a good history in RSRP on an OOC level, I think is a good catalyst for story and change in a roleplay world - and one that RSRP can uniquely benefit from since RS has an unmirrored take on the world, being that players ignore a lot of NPC world leaders. I think creating situations with risk in the RP world could greatly benefit the remaining community, and can be done in a healthy productive way. We didn't always handle it well in the past, but (I assume) we were all fairly young.
POK leaders have a unique responsibility of creating rp for others - I don't mean to pass the buck, but when you're hosting a part of the map, it should fall to the leading players to make sure their region is active and invite players with reasons to come and visit to interact. To pull this thought together, they can provide growth and cultivate Freelance by providing a platform and creating open stories for people who want to engage.
My recommendation (take with a grain of salt, I have very little understanding of the current state of RP) would be as follows:
1. Create one platform of easy communication for the community, to share when people are gathering to RP.
2. POK leaders rally their people, and RP open and often in their spaces to draw freelance. Share their stories and breathe life into their tiles.
3. Profit.
25-Mar-2022 13:42:42
To elaborate further on my post, Conflict doesn't need to be between players necessarily either. Conflict can take many different forms. A conflict could be as small as 'A merchant is traveling to Tree Gnome Village but can't get past Moss Giants along the way' to something as large as a lich terrorizing the land with an army of risen dead (Shout out to the Thorvald plot years ago).
Whatever the case, a challenge is the best way to rally people and create new relationships between characters I think - but the biggest hurdle is people to create them.
By now most of us are working adults, and mantling the responsibility of organizing, creating, and dedicating the sheer amount of time it takes to rp in a meaningful way is no small feat around the titanic responsibilities of simple day-to-day. Especially so considering I'm sure some of you even have children at this point.
In reality, my recommendation above is absurdly reductionist, but I do think it's a good way to put a potential approach in scope.
And I want to be explicitly clear that I am not pointing fingers - it's just a tough reality of the state of things. People are busy, and creating good RP is very time consuming. But without a vision that is put out into the world, freelancers won't feel a reason to engage - be it with a plot, or with a city if there's nothing happening there to be a part of.
I don't think POK's are bad, but I do think they harbor a degree of responsibility to the community at large that should be recognized, not just to their own groups. And please when I say this remember that I have no idea what POK's still exist, and who is leading them. This is not a callout, it's just an observation from any RP community I've observed, not just RSRP.
Thanks for your time reading, I hope this is at least a little helpful
Whatever the case, a challenge is the best way to rally people and create new relationships between characters I think - but the biggest hurdle is people to create them.
By now most of us are working adults, and mantling the responsibility of organizing, creating, and dedicating the sheer amount of time it takes to rp in a meaningful way is no small feat around the titanic responsibilities of simple day-to-day. Especially so considering I'm sure some of you even have children at this point.
In reality, my recommendation above is absurdly reductionist, but I do think it's a good way to put a potential approach in scope.
And I want to be explicitly clear that I am not pointing fingers - it's just a tough reality of the state of things. People are busy, and creating good RP is very time consuming. But without a vision that is put out into the world, freelancers won't feel a reason to engage - be it with a plot, or with a city if there's nothing happening there to be a part of.
I don't think POK's are bad, but I do think they harbor a degree of responsibility to the community at large that should be recognized, not just to their own groups. And please when I say this remember that I have no idea what POK's still exist, and who is leading them. This is not a callout, it's just an observation from any RP community I've observed, not just RSRP.
Thanks for your time reading, I hope this is at least a little helpful
25-Mar-2022 13:53:19
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