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[Andr3aZ]

I think we need to differ between

"acting like a wastelander and not out of character on the daily playing"
Talking like a wastelander in the fallout universe, doing things that seem realistic for a wastelander aka non metagaming

and

"do things that have no real impact on the world and take place mostly in the phantasie of every participant"
travel around with a purpose and goal you set for yourself like a caravan from town A to town B and enter every encounter.
Or place your things to trade on the ground and offer them as a merchant, hire guards who shoot looters etc.

Many people RP the first way, and thats totaly ok and easy to do.

But the real interesting and worthwhile things in my opinion are those little events, and by events I don't mean a big festival, just something you organize like a traveling merchant coming to a town and putting his items to display. But those things are hard to maintain and a sudden troll-airstrike can always happen.
What I also learned from past experiences is that if you have GM assistance, half of the people in the place are spamming "hi GM, gief skin plx".

[Eternauta]

or the people loose interest because there is no "phat lewt" at the end of the RPing.

Not *always* true, last session I for example got a nice reward for being one of the three guys who participated in one of the "robot in V15" events But that was just a gift from a GM ("omg gm abooze!") so probably doesn't count. What could count is that I had prepared a reward for whoever would finished the Jake Ibarra event, I had saved some caps and also some loot and while a GM helped me a bit because I was paranoid about Hinkley armors, it was mostly player work. As a little twist, I decided that the player could only get the reward if they Err-Pee'd with Jake Ibarra, trying to complete the "quest" via PvP dialogue () instead of fighting.

The whole thing was interrupted so I wasn't able to actually test it, but it's just about an incentive in my opinion, and I think these elements could boost the RP tendencies of some players. It of course requires dedicated players who can gather/have gathered decent loot and are able to part with it, and willing to part with it even if it's by not dying in TC. But I think there are some players like that.

[Andr3aZ]

Didn't know you were there
I pushed Nexxos, who played the greedy BoS paladin, to give a bit stuff as reward for the ones who played along all the time.
(We even had someone there who was absolutly stoned (in real life) and he pulled through nicely )

Of course someone can provide player-rewards for such event even without GM, but it can be frustrating if it backfires because of something and everything is lost.

[Eternauta]

Of course someone can provide player-rewards for such event even without GM, but it can be frustrating if it backfires because of something and everything is lost.

Yeah that's right. Maybe last session it didn't hurt so much because of the characteristics of the game's economy, the reworked gathering cooldowns and the length of the session (in a way, everyone had everything at the end), but it is different this time. We'll see how it goes, maybe after some months it'll be possible to invest loot in micro-RP-events again

[Smeghead]

(We even had someone there who was absolutly stoned (in real life) and he pulled through nicely )

playing stoned =200% more fun 

[Enzotainment]

playing stoned =200% more fun 

Is there any other way to play?

[Smeghead]

especialy for roleplay:D

[Xisingr Will]

I am going to be trying to start this all out in a month or so.....maybe less but i'm not sure.....that is when i am going to start recruiting for guards, store owners, suppliers, doctors, roleplayers, etc, etc....

[jonny rust]

Just opened my RP project. It's been nearly a year in the works. PM if your interested!

http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,24072.0.html