I think we all agree training to your 50th level says nothing about your RP ability only that you have spent a lot of time hunting. Granted some though very few people RP while hunting.
Does anyone else notice that there are some great Role-players out there, albeit they have not spent a lot of time hunting so they don't have a title, therefore they go unnoticed completely?
One of the neatest people I have RP'ed with was unfortunately only in the lands for one month on the free trial. But I actually learned a lot from him about RP, though older people took his RP as snertiness and thumped, bound, and silenced him constantly. He created RP and had a great way of pulling those around him into it. He is what I aspire to emulate.
As Zadya I know enough people and my character appears "old" enough that I tend to get responses from people and I tend to not feel excluded even around people I don't know.
I have a younger character who was looking to start some RP one day, tried HS steps, huge mistake nobody even noticed me I even made a big deal about how I must be invisible but nobody notices. Actually I think I was thumped now that I think about it, granted I'm not the best RP'er but I try.
Just two days ago I walked around town as another young character, I found people that I knew weren't afk and asked random questions trying to get a conversation started and meet new people. Several didn't even acknowledge me would do stuff like spell up and go off on their hunt. However I'm willing to bet had I been on as Zadya did the exact same thing sure still some would have ignored me, but I would have been taken more seriously.
This is one of the reasons I don't like that we can't control how old we appear. It is a role-play killer. I can do my very best with my character try to pull others in, or even try to join in with others only to hit against a solid wall.
I even have one friend who doesn't RP at all I tease him about it but he has it in his mind that he can't RP until his character is older. Do others feel this way?
Anyway I rarely rant about anything, but this is plain silly and it is something we as players can fix. Would love to hear opinions on this.
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