Drethon
Gallente
Lutin Group
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Posted - 2007.10.23 13:07:00 -
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The overall problem with role-playing in eve is there are no controls. Before eve-online I played Gemstone IV a lot and still do some. Gemstone is not perfect but if you walk into a community center and say something out of character, the entire community will come down on you and if they don't a GM might walk by and have a talk with you.
In the long run, a good role-play community may be affected by the game mechanics but it is up to the community itself to enforce role-playing. I know I'm just as guilty as anyone else of not helping out the community, while I try to role-play I've been too busy learning the game mechanics to actively participate. I've now joined an RP corp to try to improve my role-playing but this by itself will not solve anything.
So what do I think we need to do to encourage role-playing? As I've said, we need to improve the community.
On one hand we have the hardcore players who have been playing for years in some cases. Many of these people will be stuck in their ways and there is little we can do with them but there are others who have been playing for years and are getting board. We need to reach out to these players. A lot of the Role-players post regularly in the intergalatic summit but what about IC posts in Crime and Punishment, Stations, Starbases and Outposts or Market Discussions? You will reach a large number of players in these forums who might not even realize they are interested in role-playing.
On the other hand is probably the largest population in Eve, the new players. Now I haven't been very active in the community lately so this could be in progress already but how many role-playing organisms run training corporations? I'm not talking about turning main large scale role-playing corporations into schools but take an alt, start a newb corp and start actively recruiting. Those with time can start teaching the newbs in the mechanics of the game and at the same time, teach them proper role-playing for their characters.
If I didn't come from other role-playing games I probably would not have any role-playing in my character in Eve as the mechanics take so long to learn. If players where taught how to play in parallel with learning role-playing, we could get the next generation of the community as solid role-players.
No offense to anyone as I know it isn't quite as easy as this statement but to improve the role-playing community, stop complaining and get out there and start teaching people!
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