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Trying to level Julyan as a monk in PotD. I have had mostly nice and polite whispers, but a couple…odd ones. One recognized her and complimented me and after I said thank you tried to RP pulling her close forcing a kiss on her(wtf?) before I blacklisted them. Today alone I had some other off-putting compliments that just come off as creepy and desperate, even when inside duty finder. So its not like it’s just balmung.
I don’t openly RP, I don’t openly even really speak ICly unless Hildibrand is around, so not sure why people assume I’m inviting this sort of garbage?
IT’S A BIT FRUSTRATING.
Eek, guess that’s something I’ll have to look out for. D: Why people gotta be gross? Eugh.
I wanted to ask you, from one Julyan to another (I made her on Excalibur one evening, just for fun…except I made her as a marauder, full intent on making her a DRK when I get the ability to get that class. ^^; ), what are you using for her pants and shoes? I know her top comes from the Gold Saucer, but i’m unsure what to get for those pieces. As far as I know exact matches for them aren’t in-game, but any help for substitutes would be appreciated! ^^;
Flame sergeant’s skirt(But the stockings are a bit light) and explorer’s moccasins(Disciple of war only, lvl 50). As a warrior, I think the brand new trouser’s are another good option, but the hem of the skirt is a bit dark.
The only model of her top we have access to is the gold saucer one, we unfortunately can’t match her sash, necklace, and gold chain on the front of the skirt.
Did you need any info on her model? I got the exact stats to recreate her in the character creation thing.
Trying to level Julyan as a monk in PotD. I have had mostly nice and polite whispers, but a couple…odd ones. One recognized her and complimented me and after I said thank you tried to RP pulling her close forcing a kiss on her(wtf?) before I blacklisted them. Today alone I had some other off-putting compliments that just come off as creepy and desperate, even when inside duty finder. So its not like it’s just balmung.
I don’t openly RP, I don’t openly even really speak ICly unless Hildibrand is around, so not sure why people assume I’m inviting this sort of garbage?
When people role play NPCs without it being like their own universe or whatever. Like ok, RP deathwing if you want but don’t make a blood elf name him neltharion and walk around and pretend to be the earthwarder in game, I hate that shit.
<_<
xD Fuck I think that’s my WoW server too. I remember seeing a Blood Elf named Neltharion on WRA. LOL
(Like…I think its fine if you can make the character actually *look* like the character and act *IN* character. Unfortunately WoW is just so limited in the “make it look like the character” area, even moreso with major lore NPCs. :x)
the belf named Neltharion is a shining example of what I fucking hate
I would point out that a lot of major Belf lore characters don’t have a unique model. So they are like an exemption to this? Plus there are a fair amount of lore characters we simply don’t see enough. so if the players want to take up this mantle. More power to them as long as they do it right. Belfarion is a good show of how not to do it.
I don’t mind if people want to RP NPCs in their OWN space. But I do mind if they want to RP an NPC with me. I don’t roleplay with NPCs, they’re just that. Non Player Characters. Of course, if people want to do it in private, then as you said, more power to them.
Ok, but people barging in to RP with you when not interested is kinda shitty in general, isn’t it? I know some people complain about immersion breaking names, but when there’s names like ‘sneakyfuta’ and ‘itchybush’ exist in WoW, I have to roll my eyes at that.
Its a small step from bashing people in wow that RP vampyr and dragons too tbh. If you don’t like it, ignore/blacklist them and move the fuck on lol.
That and I feel like most FF14 NPC rpers mostly follow unspoken rules since they’re far more common, and yes there are bad eggs that are obnoxious and pushy. But dealing with that is still the same. Ignore/blacklist and move the fuck on.
So there seems to be a rise in unsolicited /tells from folks who take exception at players looking like NPCs, and I feel the need to point out how silly they are.
Now, we’re “allowed” to act like Disneyworld mascots. They’ll permit us that. Harassment only comes if that unwritten rule is broken, and of course we deserve bullying then. No, fuck that noise hard. If an NPC player barges in on your personal RP or disrupts your events, that’s a bad ROLEPLAYER. The NPC part’s got NOTHING to do with that. You’ve got no business concern-trolling /tells to folks who are doing nothing but AFKing by the Aetheryte or a Marketboard while looking like an NPC, or are interacting with people who aren’t you.
What’s that? Because That One Nanamo was a bad, that means of course ALL NPC players are bads who must be dealt with before it’s too late? Then of course this means that all RPers are pretentious assholes like you, the random /teller! Right?
Nope, nope, nope. Ding-dong, you are wrong.
The irony is, I’ve never seen an NPC player roaming about with an RP tag on. I don’t use it, Sunshine doesn’t use it, Tara doesn’t use it. We roleplay among ourselves (rarely publically), or when approached by folks who want us to respond as the character we’re playing. But that apparently isn’t good enough for these folk. The reasoning is that they’re protecting immersion, but all they’re actually protecting is how THEY think people should play this game.
“Buh-but IMMERSION–” No. Stop. Stop right there. I love RP, but neither Balmung, nor any other server, is an OFFICIAL “RP server”. Squeenix was kind enough to give us an RP tag, but there are no official rules attached to it. In fact, they’d love to sell you some Scions outfits and hairstyles over at the Mog Station. We are a drop in the bucket in this playerbase. You want to curse the player standing on top of you while you sit and wait for an RP bite at the Quicksand? They might be cursing your nameplate for getting in the way of clicking their quest NPC. You want to howl about someone laying on “your” table as a tablecloth? Imagine how you’re intruding on all the non-RP players’ immersion of the OFFICIAL game storyline, by cluttering up multiple public chat channels with wordwalls of random original characters you never asked if they wanted to see.
Seriously, for those whose immersion jimmies are rustled that badly just by SEEING an NPC player, I have to ask: how do you function at all in this game? Those players over yonder with names completely out of naming conventions? That guy over there in the Cloud Strife set? Those official crossover events with completely non-related franchises? That time Yoshi-P threw your immersion out the 18th floor window? Did you explode? Do you stay up long nights, crying and gnashing your teeth, wailing into your pillow that your World Is Ruined Forever? Y'know what would be the reasonable, productive way of handling it? Moving the fuck on with doing your own thing, and understanding that game servers are a lot of different strokes for different folks. Learn to focus on YOUR strokes, because it almost seems you prefer bitching about other people doing things You Don’t Like than actually playing the game.
If it helps, from a roleplay standpoint, consider that your Extra-Special Everyday Joe (who shockingly sometimes has a non-conforming name themselves) really shouldn’t even KNOW a lot of major or even minor NPCs on sight, let alone by name, as many are encountered as the Warrior Of Light–a role that, as I understand it, is another no-no in srs RP circles. Even Hildibrand isn’t really all that famous, folks. That’s part of the joke. That’s why the Yellowjackets beat him up in 1.0 and made him cry for Mummy.
Then there’s the passive-aggressive presumed insult that NPC players need to work on their creativity so they can make OCs like the “good” roleplayers. It isn’t that deep, brotato. Personally, the three of us DO have OCs as well. But these are characters we enjoyed in the storyline, and wanted to see more of than the game allowed us to–and we love running into other fans of the character. Even then, it isn’t as easy as you’re trying to make it. There’s a challenge we enjoy in recreating these guys. To correctly reproduce them often requires maxing an alt in a very alt-unfriendly game in order to farm the right clothes, and in Tara and Sunshine’s case, maxing certain crafting professions. Before dataminers uncovered the character creation settings for NPCs, it also often involved running ten level one throwaways to an NPC out in the world proper for comparison–or levelling multiple throwaway rogues to get that One Rogue Quest NPC just right.
They’re a labor of love. Just like yours.
I have to say though, it’s bemusing to learn there are presumptuous folks who would judge us for this and snub us as lessers, because gosh, you do that like we’d want to interact with a dick in the first place!
You ignore us, we ignore you, and Nothing Of Value Was Lost. Or, I’ll see you around on my minor NPCs, whom you’ll be fine and dandy with until you eventually find out they ARE NPCs.
Please Look Forward To It™.
It’s like the influx of “you’re an imposter” whispers I got when I was questing on Yellow Moon back in the day. Always figured that was the same person on alts, it was so weirdly specific 6_9
The cool players have always FAR outnumbered the trolls, so :p
Not to mention I bought the lorebook BECAUSE its a goldmine for extra NPC info. (apparently Hildibrand was only 18 in 1.0. wat.)
I think the one time we open RPed was during that murder mystery Gold Saucer event and it was amazing. Outside that, the good experiences have vastly outweighed the bad thank goodness. Funnily enough, the last two players that took issue with me were a cat and a dragon chick with lalafell names.
But yeah. We aren’t in guilds, we don’t put up RP tags, and the most we do is two emotes and we stop. We RP story lines privately.
And yes I’m extremely salty that originally to get Briardien’s glasses I had to level a crafting class to farm the Artisan’s glasses and dumped millions of gil to get them, and now THEY JUST GIVE YOU A LEVEL 1 DYEABLE VERSION.
Inspector Cyr is now level 50 with properly glamoured gear with the set he wore in the credits. Unfortunately there’s no dye-able version of his robe I can use, but tbh I like him better this way. Think I’ll do the Hildebrand questline before I tackle the fun that is..the rest of the ARR MSQ.
Tarabob got Inspector Hildibrand’s paladin job to 50 alongside me and got him the sword and board he had in FFXIV 1.0/gravestone. Shame we can’t replicate the crown though D:
Another partner in enquiry presents himself! He’s still green (badum-tish), but the Gentleman Inspector will surely be able to polish him to a gentlemanly shine of his own in no time. (he finally has Swiftcast at least, sob)
Sunshine and me, from the NPC Appreciation Society Of Balmung (unofficial)!
Next lesson: the Gentlemanly Pose.
Been sitting on this toon since he showed up, but only recently wanted to actually play as him. I actually vastly prefer his character development over Briardian lol, but Briar will always be my main boy.
