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Casiella Truza
Ecliptic Rift
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Posted - 2009.08.17 21:38:00 -
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Do you prefer EVE writing or roleplay? Why?
For the longest time, I leaned towards RP (in this and other games), but over the last 6-8 months that has gone the other way. This partly results from still not having proper avatars, but also due to the fact that, barring a PnP-style system, writing allows much more freeform action without "walloftext hits you with a wrecking blow for 100000 damage" emotes.
I know other folks prefer RP due to the real-time interaction, self-consciousness about writing ability, or other factors. What about you? -- EVE Blog EVE Twitter |
Ciarente
Gallente Re-Awakened Technologies Inc Electus Matari
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Posted - 2009.08.18 00:40:00 -
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I think I'd be about a 50-50 split.
A substantial part of my enjoyment of RP comes from writing about it, or reading what others have written about it. However, although I enjoy reading good fiction about characters I don't interact with IG, I enjoy fiction more if my characters,characters I know IC, or characters whose players I know OOC feature in it.
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Allihence
Amarr AWE Corporation Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2009.08.18 02:25:00 -
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I really wanted to get into RP in EVE, as the idea of it has always seemed very fun to me, though when I actually get into the chats, I find myself terribly bored. It seems like a lot of people Role Play things that aren't much more exciting than real life. I kind of envy those RP'ers who really get into it, but for some reason I just can't suspend my disbelief, even when there's nothing unbelievable happening.
But with a story you get to plot everything out and design all the characters to interact in just the way you want, so you know that the things that are happening are moving toward an organized and purposeful climax and character arc, instead of being just a bunch of stuff that happens.
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James Vayne
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Posted - 2009.08.18 07:10:00 -
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Well so far i've yet to encounter anyone who actually RP's. lol.
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Jianni Sotaku
Sotaku Estate
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Posted - 2009.08.18 07:15:00 -
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Yeah, RP around here is rather... Player Reaction + Racial Description. Not always a bad thing, but I like hanging out with individual characters that arn't often played.
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Simon Coal
Gallente The Grass Spiders
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Posted - 2009.08.18 13:27:00 -
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I prefer RP, but I write a little bit too. Writing for me is... how to put it. I'm not very interested in telling a story. I just want to get into Simon's head for a couple hours here and there and have fun play-acting. Writing is a useful rehearsal for that.
As far as I have narrative goals, I think I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum from Allihence. I want incomplete narratives, occluded motives, inconsistency and half-assed resolutions. I'd prefer for someone hunting Simon's writing down to think they're putting together the image of a man, rather than thinking they are reading a story. Which probably makes reading my blog a pain
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Vieve Tisserand
Gallente Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.08.19 03:09:00 -
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I prefer roleplay. Believe me, if you read any of my character fiction where other people's characters aren't involved-- meaning that I made it up whole cloth instead of riffing from in-game interactions -- you'll understand why. I don't like being stuck in my characters' heads.
Originally by: Allihence But with a story you get to plot everything out and design all the characters to interact in just the way you want, so you know that the things that are happening are moving toward an organized and purposeful climax and character arc, instead of being just a bunch of stuff that happens.
I agree with you about 90 percent. I personally can't plot my way out of a paper bag. I'm better at breaking out the scissors, glue, felt, cosmic dust, bad science and confusing metaphors and turning paper bags into fashion statements. My RP's ... er ... been known to generate a lot of paper bags (a.k.a. "bunch of stuff that happens"). When they pile up, I recycle what I can into writing.
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Carmen Estacado
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.08.19 08:44:00 -
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I can only echo most of the previous notions. In any other MMORPG I've played my answer would be RP, but here it's writing.
You're just too removed from your and other's characters and the environment doesn't really support RPing much. You can stay IC in chat and can agree on a setting in the large scale, but everything else you've to draw up yourself... subtract "being logged in" from that and you're writing fiction. On the one hand that isn't too bad at all but on the other hand I'm still gleefully awaiting EVE Ambulation... especially if the recent coverage of Dusk 514 (I'm in particular referring to the command-center scene with the close planet in the background) portrays what it might look and feel like.
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