Serious Roleplaying Crews/Factions
73 posts · 2006-10-23 09:35:31 to 2007-03-12 09:40:37
That's all I can think of from the top of my head.
Other than that maybe Tetragrammaton, though Im not sure of any events with them involved...
Veritas Lucis?yes yes yes! or in a pinch TGS's Singularity crew, although they're more writers than live RP'ers, and all these choices are mech. I can't think of any non mech harcore RP'ers. Although I'm sure there are some.
Perhaps, my dear, it would help if you clarified what you mean by "Serious Roleplaying Crews/Factions"? 
As for me, I am always trying to improve the roleplay in the game. But it is difficult when you have so many younger players on these days that don't really understand or want to RP. It is an aspect of gaming that many of them just aren't familiar with.
Also, it's taken me a while to figure out where Shi Xin belongs. Now that I have that worked out, I'll be throwing some more RP out there. Hopefully, I can get my (new) crew really involved in it as well.
I guess you could call us the old crew of the Antioch, though that ship's been blown to pieces now. The freighter "Trinity's Hope" is where we're currently jacked in from.
Reeverb wrote:Veritas Lucis?yes yes yes! or in a pinch TGS's Singularity crew, although they're more writers than live RP'ers, and all these choices are mech. I can't think of any non mech harcore RP'ers. Although I'm sure there are some.
Tetragrammaton? They're pretty much always IC, I think. Don't know 'em that well but thats the image I've got from them.
I gotta stop thinking before my head hurts too bad.
But if its really the case the only factions who RP are Mech than MXO has fallen further than I would have hoped. I'm sure that more people RP than just Mechs.
I thought Merv was where most of the RPers are?
Where's the WolfPack?
Costa Nostra or something? Abaddon?
Waaaaiiit!
Crew of the Swordfish II! They still around? Zions haviest RP crew!
Winter Brood then?
Gotta think harder...
*slams head against a wall*
I give up.
faction wise no I dont think any are any left. RP in a large scale is dead. Yeah there are crews out there that RP or one or two people in a faction that do but thats it.
To be honest the old days of RP died the moment it moved to Tabor West and pvp/paries started to dominate the hardline. Now the most you will find is on the NR boards and even then the newest thread is about what a week old?
But I do think that it can pull a Neo and come back to life. It seemed to have died the moment Anome betrayed Niobe and Unlmimit showed up so maybe once there all gone we will see a revival.
Well, there has to be a payoff, right? I mean, what's the point? (I know what it is, just making a, well, point)
For PvPers its the King-of-hill bragging rights and cq points.
For partiers, it's the social interaction.
So, what is the point of RP?
For me, it is a creative outlet. A chance to partake in one of the greatest stories of our generation.
There has to be a serious payoff, though, to really get people into it.
Thoughts?
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Roleplay is not something of immediate "rewards," but allows for the progression of creativity; be it writing skills, acting skills, or even coping skills. Coping skills are definately needed for a person to be able to detach his/her emotions from the roleplay and at the same time deal with things storywise without overreacting in such a way that breaks character.
Roleplay is about immersion, it is a path like no other, an intellectual and emotional challenge that can help you grow and adapt as a person. As you progress, you begin to see this not as a game, but as a story, which you feel a part of - a feeling that is one of roleplay's greatest rewards.
When my crew was active, I kept a policy of limited OOC conversations in my crew chat. When OOC is necessary for roleplay, I prefer voice communication. If that is not possible, I usually designate my team chat as OOC. This is not limited to crew members either; if myself and a few others were interacting with others in area chat, where heavy or disputable (high possibility of misinterpretations or lack of communication between players) I invite the outsiders into my team to better coordinate.
Please note that I'm not trying to force others into following my "rules;" I am simply offering example of what I look for and attribute myself to in roleplay.
Yeah, roleplay came to a screeching halt the moment the unlimits showed up... The storyline isn't bad, per se, its just that its once again focused on a common enemy. Things were much more fun when they pitted the organizations against each other. Hopefully, after Anome's over with, we can get back into that nice groove we were in from Cryptos's arrival through Blue Sky.
I have also been working on my RP, and it is true, most RP is hard to just come across these days, I am part of a couple running RP stories in-game but only cuz I heard of it through a very active captain. As for factions that Rp in zion? Dont really know of any to be honest...it seems to be mostly a group of individuals from different factions...
BTW PvP is nor about bragging rights and cqs, its fun =)
Hardlines have to much standard traffic, and they are just out in the open. If you're not hooked up with any group or faction, you hardly have a solid entrance to roleplay. Your choices are to jump in from the HL, wander around and eavesdrop. Atleast at a club or a bar, you can belly up to the bar, get a drink, and build up some steam before trying to interact with other characters or conversations.
And a club is indeed nicer to RP than a hardline, as TPW. Although its harder to attract people to a club than a hardline.
But I'm all in favour of moving. TPW is boring anyway.
Harpalos is a shy anti-social scientist.
Eric, the player, is a scientist, but an extremely social person.
Harpalos rarely says a word to others, but loves having meaningful conversations with the people he cares for(really not many...)
Eric must usually be asked to shut up.
The result makes a strange roleplay experience. I love to roleplay, to interact with others, to build stories. But mxo is my first mmorpg, and since I had no idea how it would be, I built Harpalos as my shell, allowing myself and my character to be 2 separate entities. Yes, this requires me to spend most of my time online doing no roleplay, except with Caillech, Harpalos' girlfriend. I would love doing much more. But it would be out of character going to public spaces and start creating bonds. So that leaves me few options for roleplay, and I got to admit, if it wasn't for Caillech with our daily rp, and our ongoing collaborative story (which I have no fear to claim as probably the biggest piece of written roleplay in the mxo universe), the game would be terribly boring for me.
A small rp faction would however be my dream. My crew is roleplay. It's easy, we're only 2 inside it. To have a full roleplay faction is something complicated however. With the game having less and less appeal, the number of veteran players go down, and makes the number of hardcore roleplayers go down. This is why most roleplayers are now isolated.
There are surely many solutions possible. Having a rp meeting spot is good, but that's not the best solution for the kind of character I play. I don't know if I'm alone in that situation, but if no, it would be something worth discussing with those giving interrest in enhancing their personal and collective roleplay experience.
As an old pen-n-paper roleplayer, I used to get together with my friends to have gaming sessions. The DM (GM, whatever) would have the quest already planned out, and we would do our best to screw it up! lol, jk. But it would be a planned deal, when we could all get together to play the game.
I've been trying to adapt this notion to MxO RP sessions. There's this 'feeling' that RP events have to be big or all-inclusive for the server. Or that they require a lot of backstory. I'd just like to have smaller, more frequent RP events that may be between my crew and another, or between my fac and another fac. I just want, say, Sunday evenings to become known as the "RP event night" for my crew, faction, whatever.
The big difference is, many of us are in this game all the time. So, instead of looking forward to that once a week gaming session, we might actually be burnt out by the time things get started. So, I still have bugs like this to work out.
I guess the best thing we can do is post stuff like "best tips for RP events", etc.
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And I didn't mean the only only reward for PvP was to brag and to earn CQ's. Course it's fun! I can't brag (cause I suk at PvP, lol) and I only have about 150cq's or something, but I still PvP cause it is fun. Sorry if I ruffled any feathers 
Merv - Abaddon, Cosa Nostra (?),
Zion - HvCrft Swordfish II (they're still around I think), E PLuribus Neo - EPN (dunno how many), Morpheus Honor Guard (?)
Can't think of whole crews or factions...
There are people who think paticipating in Live Events is true Roleplaye and kinda flow with the story, but do nothing outside of the events.
All factions with an "?" mean that I don't know the extent of Roleplaying inside.
Meh.. for those few who know me, I'm doing Rp too (with... relative success, "godmodding" >.< is worst of my Rp crimes, i really try... not to).
In my time as Rper I fear I drop OOC much too often, unneccesarily. There are some players on Syntax that do Rp in PvP factions (by them commonly known as "Err Pee").
Rp is not only talking IC but also talking about the whole universe of possibilities in here. I'd really like to have some more players participate.
And yeah... hardlines shouldn't be the meeting points for Rping.
I dunno wehre you heard that we PvP from, but we hardly PvP. and in FC, we normally all talk in character, if we talk ooc, we take it to tells, or we use bracets.. but about 90 perfect of our faction chat is in character, and we've had alot of RPing going on lately, somes been in on it, some not. It just depends whose on at that time.
Hey hey, now...
I PvP and I invite all who wish to, to PvP with me. We try to focus more on the PvP as a means of driving the story or the RP we're engaged in, but I think it depends on the situation. I believe it's a matter of taste - some RP'ers tend to be more aggressive, some more passive and diplomatic. Some of the best players I've met excelled at both and I encourage them both, though my faction is overtly an RP faction. If that makes sense... 
...and as for FC, I agree with Chloe. I don't demand that people stay IC at all times in that channel, but I do (to show example to others) about 90% of the time. Also as Wolfess said earlier, using a voice channel is a good alternative for talking OOC as well as strengthen OOC communication - a lack of which can cause detrimental things to the RP.
We also haven't PvPed in a long while. I kinda miss that. as role playing PvP can be a lot of fun!
The RP population on Syntax pretty muched up and vanished for many reasons, most of which include problems people had with one another while IN CHARACTER, some even OUT OF CHARACTER.
But I think, and I'm intitled to my own opinion, RP has vanished because of the severe lack of IG content, and events. You can say all you want about what SOE is doing for MxO...but when SOE's idea of an event is a group of people hunting down a RSI only to find that RSI on top of a building, after they've crashed 10 times, trash talking THE MEROVINGIAN himself and getting away with it and being turned invisible...yeah...thats going to have me begging to ask the question...*CENSORED*? What kinda shite is that?
You can also throw in the whole PvP problem. Too many people forgetting this is a game and taking PvP soo serious they expect to launch a viral program at someone at the bus stop who just took their seat IRL. Too much BS and not enough enjoyment.
And you can say this game is what you make of it, but some people's idea of enjoyment is pissing others off and making fun of folks in a game, as opposed to what enjoyment in a game SHOULD mean. What that means, again, changes with opinion.
As a self proclaimed RP-Vet. I've left because of all the reasons stated above, and I know there have been many before me who have done the same for the same reasons.
Will Syntax ever allow the shine of Linenoise to burst through even in the smallest of ways? I dunno. Do I hope it does? Yes. It would be great to actually want to jack into the game to enjoy myself instead of dealing with immature folks screaming 'zomg I pwnted j00 and ur soul!!!!111' and IG drama/BS. But then again...as its been noted more then once....
MxO = Serious Business...nuff said?
Well stated.
Amen Luca, amen.
Seriously, I think we can safely say that too many people have left because of what you said. Too little to do and too many pricks.
I've luckily never been part of any drama (I got a thicker skin than Master Shadow in RL) but seeing people get mad each other over a freakin' video game does make me sad.
Thats probably where most of the serious RPers (not saying y'all aren't serious ) have gone, somewhere where the game itself isn't serious business, but just a video game.
There are RPers left though, they're not all gone yet. Perhaps the hang out spot could change the face of RP and hopefully attract more RPers, new and old players alike.
(OOC)
I'd like to note that Cosa Nostra is an RP faction. Merv oriented, family mafia style. I've gotten more outlets for RP in this faction than ever before in MXO. (This is Jsong)
Faction chat is mostly IC unless otherwise noted (())
Tasa
I feel safe in saying as the Underboss, that Cosa Nostra is also a RP faction. Most of us use brackets to talk OOC and we have had some RP in and out of faction going on as well.
We also haven't PvPed in a long while. I kinda miss that. as role playing PvP can be a lot of fun!
LMAO - Great minds think alike, Tasa! I said the same thing 4 posts ago!
Check Club Sphinx every now and then, the more you go the more people will follow. If everyone stands still then we won't move forward. If you're looking to RP then the best way to do it is to start it yourself.
The Blue Order also has still been Role Playing and hasnt stopped. However, check the P.E.T. - Player Event Team post on the Event Thread.
*REMINDER* There is already a P.E.T. disregard my post about a P.E.T. If you are interested go visit this link >>>>> Player Event Team - P.E.T.
I apologize for the confusion. Looks like Mystic and Reeverb had everything under control
The location has already been changed and I've found several people RPing there occiasionally.Yeah, the problem currently is first of all, holidays--people are busy. And second, people will jack in to "the location," find no one there, and then go elsewhere. Coming from the dead-quiet server of Proxy, I was used to the sit-and-wait sense of roleplay. Sometimes you just have to find a place, and stay there for a while. It might sound boring and a waste of time, but if you want to roleplay, you have to be patient sometimes. So get something to multi-task, maybe a book, or a magazine, or knitting--and after a while you may find yourself some company.
Check Club Sphinx every now and then, the more you go the more people will follow. If everyone stands still then we won't move forward. If you're looking to RP then the best way to do it is to start it yourself.
Reeverb wrote:The location has already been changed and I've found several people RPing there occiasionally.Yeah, the problem currently is first of all, holidays--people are busy. And second, people will jack in to "the location," find no one there, and then go elsewhere. Coming from the dead-quiet server of Proxy, I was used to the sit-and-wait sense of roleplay. Sometimes you just have to find a place, and stay there for a while. It might sound boring and a waste of time, but if you want to roleplay, you have to be patient sometimes. So get something to multi-task, maybe a book, or a magazine, or knitting--and after a while you may find yourself some company.
Check Club Sphinx every now and then, the more you go the more people will follow. If everyone stands still then we won't move forward. If you're looking to RP then the best way to do it is to start it yourself.
knitting ....
I don't visit the Sphinx very often, but I must agree: It's a deserted place like many other in the Megacity. That's why I still prefer a hardlined location as the "hangout" (alternatively, we could equip the Sphinx with a phone, that would be perfect). I am not that patient - and it doesn't take so much time to check a place if you can hardline right into the middle of it. So, just my 2 cents about that location issue and such (totally offtopic in the recruitment forums, too).
"The sun sets only to rise again" - Elisabeth Berret-Browning
Wolfess wrote:Hardlines are the unrealisticness to RP.Reeverb wrote:The location has already been changed and I've found several people RPing there occiasionally.Yeah, the problem currently is first of all, holidays--people are busy. And second, people will jack in to "the location," find no one there, and then go elsewhere. Coming from the dead-quiet server of Proxy, I was used to the sit-and-wait sense of roleplay. Sometimes you just have to find a place, and stay there for a while. It might sound boring and a waste of time, but if you want to roleplay, you have to be patient sometimes. So get something to multi-task, maybe a book, or a magazine, or knitting--and after a while you may find yourself some company.
Check Club Sphinx every now and then, the more you go the more people will follow. If everyone stands still then we won't move forward. If you're looking to RP then the best way to do it is to start it yourself.
knitting ....
I don't visit the Sphinx very often, but I must agree: It's a deserted place like many other in the Megacity. That's why I still prefer a hardlined location as the "hangout" (alternatively, we could equip the Sphinx with a phone, that would be perfect). I am not that patient - and it doesn't take so much time to check a place if you can hardline right into the middle of it. So, just my 2 cents about that location issue and such (totally offtopic in the recruitment forums, too).
"The sun sets only to rise again" - Elisabeth Berret-Browning
And alliteration is awesome.