Not trying to put words in your mouth...thats how I interpreted it. I agree with you on the point about BS reasons being bad RP, but I don't see Tibs and company coming up with BS reasons.
The intent behind my initial response was simply this:
In a case where there is a conflict between maintaining character integrity versus fulfilling OOC desires, then maintaining character integrity comes first in my opinion.
That's why i'm in the impossible situation I am currently. It must be a lot worse for Ava.
I agree with your statement and have always done so, but its seriously sucks. If I could magically transfer all of my 130M SP on another fresh character more fitting to the current needs of RP and also being able to go where I want it, I would...
*The state of RP is dead. I blame that one corp of RPers who are having a great time playing the game, being friendly to each other, RPing internally within their corp, and interacting with the rest of the RP community.*
Seriously a lot of this thread reads like "It's not fair that people are having fun without me." There are very frequently complaints on this very forum that RP corporations don't do anything in space. That RP groups only interact with their own insular groups. That RP doesn't have consequences. PYRE is doing all of those things.
We're active in space everyday. We interact with RPers in every faction, whether they want it or not. I can't speak for every member, but I certainly know I spend a lot of my RP time dealing with the consequences of being a PYRE member. It's a lot of fun. I get to be involved in the story. I get to be part of the RP collective conversation instead of being a fly on the wall in a dozen dead RP channels wondering why I even paid that $15.
Haters are gonna hate, but at least we're giving the rest of you something to talk about.
PYRE yes.
Do you see many entities that are having fun besides yours and a handful of others ? I take issue with people that continue to say "lalala all is fine because after all, it's perfectly fine in my corp". There, I said it. Gaven keeps saying it, PYRE now says it, AVLEX says it. Guess what ? They are the entities for whom it works. But when you are part of another RP faction or loyalty, then it's a whole story, and the problem these days is that it's not even a minority, it has become the majority. And I personally refuse to sacrifice any RP logic and coherence of my character to have fun. I have fun by maintaining it, actually.
Unfair to say it like that ? Yes. Both sides are. Both are unwilling to listen to the issues of the other.
Also, I didn't know there were so many closet blooders in the militias.
I should like totally create a blooder alt that I would call Closet Blooder.
Actually, I'd venture the claim that I am more secluded over long times in my RP, than wormhole-dwellers:
I RP mostly, nowadays, in private channels, with select indviduals, where no one can possibly invade and where the most of the interaction is largely - I dare to say it - irrelevant for the cluster. Yesternight was the first time in years (I think) that I undocked to shoot at something - and then I was fashionably late. I'm a carebear nowadays and I don't shoot people. Even my times as forum-warrior are largely past me. So what? I still RP, every now and then.
Irrelevant has - just as relevant - two points of reference: X is (ir)relevant to Y. So, while my private RP might be vastly irelephant to most of the RPers in EVE, it is quite relevant to me and the other parties involved in the RP (I hope (; ). So, I think Anslo is quite right: All RP is relevant (to someone), else it wouldn't happen.
P.S.: And we really should respect that it is relevant to those people, instead of fenigrating it as 'irrelevant', because we don't have the angle to see it's relevance.
Heh yes, I am in the same geriatric situation. I undocked for Kor event and that was great.
I haven't done that for eons...
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