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I myself had a opposite experience in the past. When doing a certain collect things event in Caledon forest, a group of 10 roleplayers started rp-ing exactly at the point where i was doing the event. They would not contribute in anyway, upscaling it 10 times. Rp-ing is just a niche, its not core gameplay. So no, rp-ers should not have a special status in this game. I dont mind roleplayers, as long as its not disturbing events/gameplay of others.

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@particlepinata.9865 said:I myself had a opposite experience in the past. When doing a certain collect things event in Caledon forest, a group of 10 roleplayers started rp-ing exactly at the point where i was doing the event. They would not contribute in anyway, upscaling it 10 times. Rp-ing is just a niche, its not core gameplay. So no, rp-ers should not have a special status in this game. I dont mind roleplayers, as long as its not disturbing events/gameplay of others.

To be fair to the RPers, they are typically more likely to do their thing in the cites and other areas away from combat. They seem to love the Taverns.

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@particlepinata.9865 said:I myself had a opposite experience in the past. When doing a certain collect things event in Caledon forest, a group of 10 roleplayers started rp-ing exactly at the point where i was doing the event. They would not contribute in anyway, upscaling it 10 times. Rp-ing is just a niche, its not core gameplay. So no, rp-ers should not have a special status in this game. I dont mind roleplayers, as long as its not disturbing events/gameplay of others.

To be fair to the RPers, they are typically more likely to do their thing in the cites and other areas away from combat. They seem to love the Taverns.

Most times, yes. But not Always. If you give a certain group of players a privilaged status with certain report/block tools, you can bet they will miss use it, always. And there are events that start in taverns like the one in the queensdale tavern (the boar event).

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@particlepinata.9865 said:I myself had a opposite experience in the past. When doing a certain collect things event in Caledon forest, a group of 10 roleplayers started rp-ing exactly at the point where i was doing the event. They would not contribute in anyway, upscaling it 10 times. Rp-ing is just a niche, its not core gameplay. So no, rp-ers should not have a special status in this game. I dont mind roleplayers, as long as its not disturbing events/gameplay of others.

To be fair to the RPers, they are typically more likely to do their thing in the cites and other areas away from combat. They seem to love the Taverns.

Most times, yes. But not Always. If you give a certain group of players a privilaged status with certain report/block tools, you can bet they will miss use it, always. And there are events that start in taverns like the one in the queensdale tavern (the boar event).

I may be wrong, but I don't think the Boar event would be effected by the RPers if they stay in the Lodge/Tavern.

But I digress, I do agree with you that they shouldn't get special privileges especially given that they are a small subset of the player base.

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@Antycypator.9874 said:Maybe spamming on chat and sending a lot of text in public isn't OK for the rest of us?Could say the same for any kind of chat, couldn't you? The ability to curate your chat channels through multiple tabs already exists; curating your visual experience, however, does not.

@Antycypator.9874 said:What about RolePlayers sitting on a map during meta and events, causing them to scale up?What about AFK players and bots sitting on a map and having the same effect? This is a weakness of the scaling system, not a malicious effort made consciously by players.

The request in this thread isn't a call for roleplayers to be treated special, and the changes asked for are usable by people even if they never touch the RP scene. Contrary to popular belief, RPers play across a variety of game modes and enjoy many different types of content. Being able to reduce visual noise in PvE, therefore, has many benefits for many different situations.

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Give RP some love and lower the /emote range.Also make it possible to right-click link a player from emotes, same as in /say. Makes emote spammers easier to block.It will make them less annoying to others and less frequent targets.Even as an avid roleplayer (elsewhere, not in GW2), I don't need to witness every bar-RP within a quarter-map's range.

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@Rauderi.8706 said:Give RP some love and lower the /emote range.Also make it possible to right-click link a player from emotes, same as in /say. Makes emote spammers easier to block.It will make them less annoying to others and less frequent targets.Even as an avid roleplayer (elsewhere, not in GW2), I don't need to witness every bar-RP within a quarter-map's range.

Completely agree. Every Role Player I know wishes the /emote range was greatly reduced.

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The extra chat for RP only would be fine with me, the scrolling of the text from /say can be annoying, and no I should not have to turn off my say in my chatbox because of this. Also, if you are choosing to RP at the waypoint by the bank in DR then you are just baiting the potential trolls by being where you already know a lot of people will show up and then get upset when someone eventually does end up trolling you. Sure you should be able to do your RP wherever you want, but the way it works now you probably need to choose somewhere other than at a popular waypoint.

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I think that people who grief are just bad people who take pleasure in causing others discomfort. They need not be bored to do it anymore than someone who enjoys playing open world PvE needs to be bored in order to play PvE. Its what they enjoy doing, so they do it.

I wouldn't be opposed to expanding anti-griefing systems in some way.

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@Jackeroo Sundown.7526 said:I'll never understand people that go out of their way to pester other people from doing what they wanna do if they're not harming anyone. There's a ton of content, just go do that. We're just people trying to have fun.That usually happens when people are bored, just like in real life. I guess people get bored in this game enough to have time to troll RP'ers. I don't get it either, but that's what seems to be the issue a lot of the time.

I'd have to say that it's worse.This is due, mainly, to the troll's perception of anonymity.I suspect that if this were IRL they'd be to timid to engage.

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@kratan.4619 said:The extra chat for RP only would be fine with me, the scrolling of the text from /say can be annoying, and no I should not have to turn off my say in my chatbox because of this. Also, if you are choosing to RP at the waypoint by the bank in DR then you are just baiting the potential trolls by being where you already know a lot of people will show up and then get upset when someone eventually does end up trolling you. Sure you should be able to do your RP wherever you want, but the way it works now you probably need to choose somewhere other than at a popular waypoint.

Create a squad and then use squad chat?

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I would personally want an option to block all RPers... To me this is not part of the game, it is something you guys invented and it annoys me. Why don't you take your spam to a guild chat or something else instead of flooding the maps with your says and emotes? I don't want to read your stories, it is sometimes disgusting and I hate every time I go to a map and get my chat box full of your spam

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Well I will give a little explanation/definition.Firstly, we are in a MMORPG a massive multiplayer ROLE PLAYING game.

What is role play?To me it's the action of creating, and/or playing a piece of story created or already present in the corresponding game/universe. It can use part of a map as a scenary for the scenes. It has in most cases to be close to the lore of the game by acting like how a person of that race would act. The use of emotes to make it more realistic is also recommanded. Elements of the game like events or npcs can be used.Group size can vary depending on the context: being a warband, two friends etc...

We are role playing the commander here, and its stories.

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@YtseJam.9784 said:I would personally want an option to block all RPers... To me this is not part of the game, it is something you guys invented and it annoys me. Why don't you take your spam to a guild chat or something else instead of flooding the maps with your says and emotes? I don't want to read your stories, it is sometimes disgusting and I hate every time I go to a map and get my chat box full of your spam

Good idea, I like you.

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I was ultimately disappointed by the role playing community or should I say how the role playing works in the community. No offense to those who love it, but it plays out like a script on a stage where it feels like you must belong to the hermit village of Role Players. I have offered all sorts of elaborate adventures from visiting the top of Rata Primus, to visiting a secret lab that can do various things. It's like they don't want to riff with you unless you are a trusted close friend or they just want to stand there frozen like statues in one place. I have never felt more alone than in an RP zone. And this is even after learning the etiquette and format.

It frustrated me so much so, that I made a video about it. This video has many parallels to my experiences in RP zones.

The culture needs to change imo. There needs to more forms than just the script play type of RP. We need journey/adventure RP, RP with less detail of minutia and instead more communication with others while being in character freely in character without the type writer novel that goes at a snails pace. Be your character, but dare to be adventurous. Don't let continuity consume you so badly that you never experience the world, and new faces alike.

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@Jackeroo Sundown.7526 said:Dearest A Net, please show your RP community a tiny bit of love. Report features that work in our favor would be amazing, or better yet, let us block people and not even see their character at all. We can't report people unless they say stuff in /say chat, which is almost never the case. Letting blocks make characters and their animations invisible in PvE areas would fix ALL of our problems with the few toxic members that consistently harass the RP community. Just blocking out the person 100% would make us so happy. Until then, there's a small group of scummy humans that get off to spamming skills in the middle of a bunch of people just being nerds. Would be nice to be able to enjoy my night off work doing what I love.

I'll never understand people that go out of their way to pester other people from doing what they wanna do if they're not harming anyone.
There's a ton of content, just go do that. We're just people trying to have fun.

I do it because it's fun to ruin ya'lls cringefest.

Rpers are the most cringy people you'll ever meet in mmos and they have a habit of doing that cringy garbage in public areas where you're tying to get stuff done. Very annoying to be, for example, escorting an npc to a destination and coming upon a charr and sylvari having an intimate conversation about tossing his salad like it's never been tossed before.

Imagine being so far gone in your own head that you think every roleplayer is an ERPer, when nine times out of ten, RPers are the ones that cast out cringey inappropriate rpers from their communities.

Astounding. Good to see the human race is regressing wonderfully.

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@hugo.4705 said:Well I will give a little explanation/definition.Firstly, we are in a MMORPG a massive multiplayer ROLE PLAYING game.

What is role play?To me it's the action of creating, and/or playing a piece of story created or already present in the corresponding game/universe. It can use part of a map as a scenary for the scenes. It has in most cases to be close to the lore of the game by acting like how a person of that race would act. The use of emotes to make it more realistic is also recommanded. Elements of the game like events or npcs can be used.Group size can vary depending on the context: being a warband, two friends etc...

We are role playing the commander here, and its stories.

OK, that sounds interesting. I'm not sure I would play that way, but I certainly can see the draw, especially if you have an audio/call program like Discord to use.

Thank you for the explanation!

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@Jackeroo Sundown.7526 said:Dearest A Net, please show your RP community a tiny bit of love. Report features that work in our favor would be amazing, or better yet, let us block people and not even see their character at all. We can't report people unless they say stuff in /say chat, which is almost never the case. Letting blocks make characters and their animations invisible in PvE areas would fix ALL of our problems with the few toxic members that consistently harass the RP community. Just blocking out the person 100% would make us so happy. Until then, there's a small group of scummy humans that get off to spamming skills in the middle of a bunch of people just being nerds. Would be nice to be able to enjoy my night off work doing what I love.

I'll never understand people that go out of their way to pester other people from doing what they wanna do if they're not harming anyone.
There's a ton of content, just go do that. We're just people trying to have fun.

I do it because it's fun to ruin ya'lls cringefest.

Rpers are the most cringy people you'll ever meet in mmos and they have a habit of doing that cringy garbage in public areas where you're tying to get stuff done. Very annoying to be, for example, escorting an npc to a destination and coming upon a charr and sylvari having an intimate conversation about tossing his salad like it's never been tossed before.

Imagine being so far gone in your own head that you think every roleplayer is an ERPer, when nine times out of ten, RPers are the ones that cast out cringey inappropriate rpers from their communities.

Astounding. Good to see the human race is regressing wonderfully.

Hes not wrong though, at least in part. Alot of RPers are cringy, not just the players who do Erotic stuff in open channels, but overall theres alot of cringe in this games Roleplay community, is it like this in other games? i dont know, but i hope not.

i refuse to go to DR anymore with my Emote, say or whispers channel active due to the ERP's in chat there. The whispers ive gotten for playing a female Charr and idling near a bar are disgusting.

Add to that, and i will admit that i have done this, we as RPs often ignore events going on, scaling them if we kill off a mob or two to stop us from getting attacked.

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You guys are getting rps at all?

Honestly, I'm fine with the current status as is. If there's anyone to troll rpers you can bet they would also laugh their asses of at their pitiful attempt of trolling.

As for special rp chat, yes I can see it being useful, but also manipulable. Squad chat works, but only if they are not using it for say, dming or writing "event emotes".

I like the idea of blocking character models, but if skills are still visible to the others I see it as pointless more than anything.

Overall, it's hard to say what the solutions are, given we don't even know who is the one in the wrong light here. On one hand, rpers have the right to do the thing in the game as much as other people, not everyone plays the game the same way. On the other hand, I can see how they can become disruptive to the "actual" gameplay that gw2 has to offer, and if I were to be interrupted by them as well, I would also agree that yes, something needs to be done.

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Why are some people so much against immersion here? It's a lot funnier to play mmo games in character, but as cobracon said, you don't have to make it boring and emote every twitch of your characters eyebrows. You could, for example, RP a beetle racer. Make that boring.

I've never seen ERP out in the open in 5 years of playing, and sadly I hardly ever see any actual roleplayers either. Has anyone ever seen any lfg groups in Fountain of Rurikton?

Don't you guys ever enjoy some desert spiced coffee just for the fun of it? Sitting and chatting around the pitcher, somebody pulling out a lute for some tunes... Do you ever shoot fireworks just for fun? Etc..

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