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[Anslol]

What everyone said about doing stuff OOC?...do that, all of that. Toss aside the RP for a bit and think what you the person want to do in Eve that's always seemed fun to you. Once found, DO THAT THING. RP shouldn't block game play avenues or fun. Mold your RP around your game play style, not the other way around. You might find some interesting twists and turns occur for RP goodness.

[Arista Shahni]

What I do outside of RP:
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Directors traditionally NEVER log in.

[Vic Van Meter]

Seriously, if your RP is getting stale, do what I do.  Start of a close, personal RP that you can do in chats while you play the rest of the game.  Sometimes, if you're not getting anything going, it's because the community is defibrillating.  What you need to do is get into a one-on-one situation and turn in, getting a deeper examination of the character.  That way, you can develop a few new wrinkles and sometimes change the entire nature of the character.

That's important.  You don't want to do a complete heel turn, but characters should be as multidimensional as people.  Sometimes, that's hard to develop in big group RP.  Parse it down and just write a story with one or two other people that puts your character in a new situation they haven't been in before.

[Arista Shahni]

99% of Arista's actual RP is one one one or very tiny groups.  Everywhere else she is windowdressing because she is not the type of character who causes scenes in public.

:Amarr:

And it IS deep.  She's "accidentallied" a few people (truly accidentally, just by me RPing what she is) and caused changes in their behaviors, opinions, etc that have stuck.

[Vincent Pryce]

My PC is just treading water.

I know you've all been there, so what did you do?

[Arista Shahni]

I approve of this message.  I miss playing Wounded Bird.  (or thee other less polite term, bait-bitch).

[Elmund Egivand]

My PC is just treading water.

I know you've all been there, so what did you do?

I too F everything and plunder Amarrian strategic assets.

[Ember Vykos]

What everyone said about doing stuff OOC?...do that, all of that. Toss aside the RP for a bit and think what you the person want to do in Eve that's always seemed fun to you. Once found, DO THAT THING. RP shouldn't block game play avenues or fun. Mold your RP around your game play style, not the other way around. You might find some interesting twists and turns occur for RP goodness.

That is possibly the best piece of advice I've seen in here. +1

This is highly recommended. Some of the best times I've had in EVE RP related or not were as a pirate. If its way too big of a stretch to become a pirate then join an active anti-pirate group. IMO piracy is a bit more fun, but its also fun to ride the moral high ground sometimes too. 

[Anslol]

My PC is just treading water.

I know you've all been there, so what did you do?

Not empty quoting.

[Shiori]

I believe in the healing power of violence.

[Pieter Tuulinen]

Meh. Is that the best we can really do with immortality? It's a bit sad, really, innit? Bubble up around a gate and wait for some chump to try to warp to zero or, if you work FW space, fit out a huge bunch of cockbag sebo-arty Thrashers and camp Ichoriya/Akidagi?

I mean, it's a lifestyle choice and all that. There's nothing wrong with violencing somebody's spaceboat, but I kinda wish, from an RP angle, I could be doing something productive and constructive. Like, FW was sort of silly before Caldari Prime, but now - what happs? There kinda isn't a rationale for it.

[Laurentis Thiesant]

RP'ers invade Null.
That'd go well... 

[Pieter Tuulinen]

Rp'ers 'invade' null, it's just that we're too small a percentage of the game to form even a reasonably sized corporation, I think.

[Laurentis Thiesant]

Rp'ers 'invade' null, it's just that we're too small a percentage of the game to form even a reasonably sized corporation, I think.

^ exactly.
Plus we'd be too busy having parties to adequately defend any space.

Would be an interesting thing to see. A CONCORD-esque coalition of empire-loyalists carving out some space and dividing it up. Infighting but still working against the .... crazy... people of the fringes.

[Demion Samenel]

What everyone said about doing stuff OOC?...do that, all of that. Toss aside the RP for a bit and think what you the person want to do in Eve that's always seemed fun to you. Once found, DO THAT THING. RP shouldn't block game play avenues or fun. Mold your RP around your game play style, not the other way around. You might find some interesting twists and turns occur for RP goodness.

I agree, try to find a good OOC path that sounds "fun" and then adapt you RP after that. A good piece of advice +1.