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What people, who survived the global thermonuclear war mostly doing? They're fighting for survival, in all possible meanings. So there must be a perfect balance between your cool and well deserved PvP and our pointless, boring talking about pixelated boobs. Just imaginate the battle of Broken Hills between Brotherhood of Steel and Unity members. ;)

Simon:
Sure role-playing is possible in this game, I think it's possible in any game, just get a few friends to help start up a little roleplay session and get it going then invite people that are passing by to join in if they don't do so by themselves. You can even start little roleplay sessions with people you don't know, just start talking and away you go, if they are not interested just ignore them and continue with the people who are willing to participate, if some people are listening they also want to join in. It's alot eaiser to do in a guarded town and you can give specific items to spice things up like Robes etc but if you want a stronger story you may have to change locations to a unguarded place in which case you should wait until you have a reasonable number of people participating and then move over and keep everything ingame so other greifers may not hear.

I've used one character for about 3/4 of this game (SG crafter) so it is not a problem for me, I don't necessarily roleplay a character in the way that I am a small guns expert or big guns expert although this is a nice touch to add to your character if you can but rather I roleplay a character personality and just switch between what I want to be, theres no need to make 100 roleplay alts. Some of the things I like to roleplay as are: Mobster, Children of the Cathedral member and even just a normal wastelander that is travelling around and talking to people, etc, I really don't mind what "Personality" or character I am and I'm always willing to adapt to a new personality or character (If needed) and participate in someone elses roleplay.

My main character is self sufficient (SG 2, Armorer 2) and it can aquire everything it needs by itself unless maybe it needs something more profession oriented such as super stims or something like this in which case you can ask a doctor if he has any for sale (Roleplay opportunity!)

Of course I also enjoy the PvP aspect of this game and as such I have made several "Ape" or combat characters for this but even then when I am on those characters and I stumble about some people role-playing I just try to join in or make up a little story on the spot quickly and introduce myself and then play along.

The first time I ever roleplayed (seriously) which may be hard to believe for some people was actually in this game and this is the only game I have roleplayed in (I think, sometimes I am unaware of it in other games :p) (or at least have tried to roleplay) as a Mobster so I made the character suited to that (small guns, slightly charismatic, unarmed, good strength etc) but often I don't always want to be a Mobster so I just change my personality but I wont go and make a new alt just for that, I'll just use the character I am on currently.

Hopefully I can meet some more of you roleplayers in the future if I havn't done so already and we can make something happen even if it is something as small as talking in Shady Sands while eating some tasty iguanas around a burning barrel.

A concerned wastelander:
All my characters are *roleplay* and dont know each others, even the players I play with dont know my other characters. For me there is no such thing as alts, I think it is anti-roleplay.

One of the thing with roleplay in Fonline, is that you have to be able to enforce it by force. Its the responsibility of the dominating forces to offer a chance of speech to the weaker ones that represent no danger.

That said, roleplay is not only about dialogue, before anything its to define a personality and follow it.

Never go out of character, forget about your personal feelings.

Surf:

--- Quote from: A concerned wastelander on September 14, 2011, 08:39:03 AM ---Never go out of character, forget about your personal feelings.

--- End quote ---

This is very true, but it is almost impossible on this server. Also, 99% of the people will not do so. The worst thing is, that people think it is "roleplaying" when they type in "shit in mouth" or other abominations.  ::) Most of the people talking in here apparently never heard of a proper pen and paper session, or let alone emulations of it. Most of the people apparently never heard about pacing, about encounter groups, about rulebooks. Most of the people apparently never heard about dices. Most of the people here never heard about fair chances in a balanced out RPG system. Most of the people simply don't know shit what a "real" roleplaying session is about.

Andr3aZ:
Might be true, Surf, but talking about this in that way makes you seem like the uber-hipster just asking for this thread to be filled with non(-elite)-RPers that feel offended and spam until someone closes this serious discussion I'm following very interested.

So, what is RP to me? I always try to stay in role when I can. But theres nothing more stupid than an RPer and a non-RPer together when the RPer is too stuborn to go out of his role, while the non-RPer is confused and doesnt know what the fuck the other one is talking. So basically, I only act in a role when I noticed the other guys around are doin the same.

We had one RP-Event of Modoc Militia 2.0 one time. We wanted to collect/hunt/craft stuff for the auction in BH.
Went good, we had a nice group of people who made nice roleplay but 1 person who was always like "lol i bring 50k 5mmAP from my tent! lol why you guys take so long? can we go already? lol y u no wear BA for caravan?" thats not what the whole thing was about and I would've loved to just shoot him, take his ammo and give it to poor children in broken hills.

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