What tools are given to Roleplayers?

As many of us, roleplayers or not simply do not have access to Ashes yet, perhaps you that have could help paint a picture on what resources or tools exist in AoC for Roleplay.

If you want, and have the time, i would appreciate any information you could give, and are allowed to give of course. Lengthy or detailed is up to one and each, but if you would like a shorter reply, you could simply copy paste this text below, add your own info to that.

Example Format:

Tools or mechanics in Ashes of Creation as of right now post 2021 - xx - xx
* Sitting on chairs / benches / ground
* Chat bubbles toggle on / off / Optionally viewed
* Guild halls etc, as in areas private for meetings
* Options to color outfits, add sigills on tabards, clan markings on banners etc
* etc etc

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CptBrownBeard

Depends on what you consider roleplay.

Sitting in chairs, emoting conversations, literally anything else involved in conventional roleplay...not so much.

RP'ng yourself as a mage stuck in a rubber-banding timeloop...oh boy have I got plenty for ya.

Really though, the testing stages aren't currently at a level where systems for social interactions are fleshed out enough to say what will make the final cut for sure.

Grihm

@CptBrownBeard Oh no of course i don´t expect all this to be in and prioritised right now as of such.
More along the general lines as they come.

Are chat bubbles a thing.... Can you have a guild members only house or hall for gatherings...can you walk or do everyone just run..those sorts of things.

I´m sure ahead, when the dev´s have time, furniture's and their use will most likely be worked on.

Dygz

RP Tools are not in the Alpha One Preview.
There are some emotes.

Grihm

Dygz wrote: »

RP Tools are not in the Alpha One Preview.
There are some emotes.

Noted! Emotes are a good start

tautau

But the plan is for lots of roleplaying tools in addition to emotes. Owning houses in nodes (or apartments, which are instanced), crafting furniture, pets (including battle pets), plenty of costumes, guild halls, player node mayors selected by citizens of the node, and so forth.

But one that I am very excited about is taverns. Players can own land outside of nodes for farms, blacksmith shops, fishing ponds, breeding animals and TAVERNS. You will be able to sit, eat, drink, plan, form groups, play games and gamble and lots of cool things.

Grihm

tautau wrote: »

But the plan is for lots of roleplaying tools in addition to emotes. Owning houses in nodes (or apartments, which are instanced), crafting furniture, pets (including battle pets), plenty of costumes, guild halls, player node mayors selected by citizens of the node, and so forth.

But one that I am very excited about is taverns. Players can own land outside of nodes for farms, blacksmith shops, fishing ponds, breeding animals and TAVERNS. You will be able to sit, eat, drink, plan, form groups, play games and gamble and lots of cool things.

Owning shops and taverns etc sounds amazing. I can already see my workshop in the outskirts of a village. * fingers crossed for lumber houses with an open fire *

George_Black

What is an example of not roleplaying in an mmorpg video game?

Grihm

George Black wrote: »

What is an example of not roleplaying in an mmorpg video game?

A very good question, since many actually truthfully either have no idea, or a massive misconception of what RP entails.

A few misconceptions i have heard players explain to me on what RP is, was
* RP-PVP stands for really powerful pvp
* RP-PVP stands for that you can choose between the two
* Oh my bunnyhopping character that screams profanity and harass people, that´s just " my RP "

In many games where you don´t get a specific RP based server, players are often left with nothing but to make an unofficial RP server, by having all roleplayers in a community to agree on what server to gather on.

With this, you have people
* Constantly interrupting roleplayers events
* Gank every guest to an RP event such as a funeral or wedding
* Spam RP chats with profanity or abusive language
etc etc

You don´t HAVE to roleplay in an MMORPG, but the biggest problem roleplayers face is rather that of people actively work to harass or destroy and interrupt roleplay for roleplayers.

Tyranthraxus

/Emotes are a major one to help RP, in any game. The ability to /tiphat, /cry, /palmfist, /shakehead, /jumpforjoy, /point, /drinkbeer and others really adds to the life of a player environment.

The personal favorite of yours truly was /bmoc in Star Wars: Galaxies. It was essentially the Fonz. Your character would dip to the side, and point at someone with two thumbs up and two index fingers extended.

Asides from /emotes, the ability to toggle run on and off is a good one; Few people in-character are always running. Celebratory tools like fireworks are good ones. Appearance tab customizations are handy.

Dygz

George Black wrote: »

What is an example of not roleplaying in an mmorpg video game?

Lack of communication at all, focusing communication mostly on the meta or talking about rl stuff, like the football or baseball game you're watching while playing.
Discussions from the player's perspective rather than from the character's perspective.

George_Black

Right

Grihm

George Black wrote: »

Grihm wrote: »

George Black wrote: »

What is an example of not roleplaying in an mmorpg video game?

A very good question, since many actually truthfully either have no idea, or a massive misconception of what RP entails.

A few misconceptions i have heard players explain to me on what RP is, was
* RP-PVP stands for really powerful pvp
* RP-PVP stands for that you can choose between the two
* Oh my bunnyhopping character that screams profanity and harass people, that´s just " my RP "

In many games where you don´t get a specific RP based server, players are often left with nothing but to make an unofficial RP server, by having all roleplayers in a community to agree on what server to gather on.

With this, you have people
* Constantly interrupting roleplayers events
* Gank every guest to an RP event such as a funeral or wedding
* Spam RP chats with profanity or abusive language
etc etc

You don´t HAVE to roleplay in an MMORPG, but the biggest problem roleplayers face is rather that of people actively work to harass or destroy and interrupt roleplay for roleplayers.

What is an example of non roleplay activities, while playing an mmorpg?

This is assuming you ONLY mean that being in an MMORPG classifies as roleplaying.
When players talk about roleplaying however, we take on the personas of the characters we play. We have talks about events in the game as you would see while watching a movie or a cutscene.

You are playing an MMORPG yes, but it´s different to Roleplay your character in an MMORPG.

Examples of Non roleplay activities could be anything that disrupts the RP of others. Standing jumping up and down on top of another to be annoying...interrupting conversations with trolling comments...naming yourself or the guild something obnoxious or " funny " or abusive etc.

ariatras

Dygz wrote: »

RP Tools are not in the Alpha One Preview.
There are some emotes.

How about custom emotes? No animations for them, but just your own text in /e or /em

Marcet

You have a whole fantasy world and your imagination, I could roleplay with less. =P

Dreoh

Steven mentioned recently about how he can't wait for or wants to see housing bathtub accessories to be able to be activated to have running water, so I think it's safe to assume there will be plenty of tools for roleplay

Grihm

Marcet wrote: »

You have a whole fantasy world and your imagination, I could roleplay with less. =P

A few examples of tools i am referring to,

Ability to actually sit, lay down, use furniture, change clothes and actually have clothes not only armors, walk not only run, have houses etc to be used by guilds only in privacy for RP, emotes to strengthen talks and points made, trade options for traveling RP guilds etc.

Thinking about this as " Oh it´s an MMORPG, so RPG is in the name so that is enough " is missing the point.
The game has a deep lore, stories and factions etc. To strengthen these and let us use them as tools, that´s in the role-player interest, many times more than PVP or gearing up etc.

Imagine how Fallout 76 were before they added npc´s. It was an RPG before the NPC´s, but people felt it was a dead game without any emotion and immersion. Roleplayers here in Ashes are hoping for tools to use, so the game is not only about fighting or gearing up.

Marcet

Grihm wrote: »

Marcet wrote: »

You have a whole fantasy world and your imagination, I could roleplay with less. =P

May i ask if this is your first Online RP game?

If it is, then you will see what we mean when it goes online. The length players will go to, just to harass the roleplaying community is baffling, and you even get to see people post it as streams or YouTube videos for " amusement ".

But that's another thing, you are asking for a roleplaying server or ways to be protected, and in this game apart from your own house or a tavern, you dont have much protection. I get that you want a server without other people fighting or griefing you, but that would break half of the game since is based on the PvX.

Grihm

Marcet wrote: »

Grihm wrote: »

Marcet wrote: »

You have a whole fantasy world and your imagination, I could roleplay with less. =P

May i ask if this is your first Online RP game?

If it is, then you will see what we mean when it goes online. The length players will go to, just to harass the roleplaying community is baffling, and you even get to see people post it as streams or YouTube videos for " amusement ".

But that's another thing, you are asking for a roleplaying server or ways to be protected, and in this game apart from your own house or a tavern, you dont have much protection. I get that you want a server without other people fighting or griefing you, but that would break half of the game since is based on the PvX.

No not at all. I see now that i mixed 2 threads together, and this is the tools section.
My post will be edited to include the correct response. One moment please.

The post has been edited @Marcet

Marcet

Grihm wrote: »

Marcet wrote: »

You have a whole fantasy world and your imagination, I could roleplay with less. =P

A few examples of tools i am referring to,

Ability to actually sit, lay down, use furniture, change clothes and actually have clothes not only armors, walk not only run, have houses etc to be used by guilds only in privacy for RP, emotes to strengthen talks and points made, trade options for traveling RP guilds etc.

Thinking about this as " Oh it´s an MMORPG, so RPG is in the name so that is enough " is missing the point.
The game has a deep lore, stories and factions etc. To strengthen these and let us use them as tools, that´s in the role-player interest, many times more than PVP or gearing up etc.

Imagine how Fallout 76 were before they added npc´s. It was an RPG before the NPC´s, but people felt it was a dead game without any emotion and immersion. Roleplayers here in Ashes are hoping for tools to use, so the game is not only about fighting or gearing up.

Yes, I agree that it would be cool to have emotes for everything, im all about instruments and furniture too. About the lore, it's very important and I hope we have a deep one to learn about, (keyword hope) im sure it won't be the Silmarilion but with some interesting and dense story, with lots of characters and.. yeah, basically a well written story, we'll be set.

Edit: Most of these things like emotes or instruments could be added in a later patch and would be perfectly fine.

Grihm

Marcet wrote: »

Grihm wrote: »

Marcet wrote: »

You have a whole fantasy world and your imagination, I could roleplay with less. =P

A few examples of tools i am referring to,

Ability to actually sit, lay down, use furniture, change clothes and actually have clothes not only armors, walk not only run, have houses etc to be used by guilds only in privacy for RP, emotes to strengthen talks and points made, trade options for traveling RP guilds etc.

Thinking about this as " Oh it´s an MMORPG, so RPG is in the name so that is enough " is missing the point.
The game has a deep lore, stories and factions etc. To strengthen these and let us use them as tools, that´s in the role-player interest, many times more than PVP or gearing up etc.

Imagine how Fallout 76 were before they added npc´s. It was an RPG before the NPC´s, but people felt it was a dead game without any emotion and immersion. Roleplayers here in Ashes are hoping for tools to use, so the game is not only about fighting or gearing up.

Yes, I agree that it would be cool to have emotes for everything, im all about instruments and furniture too. About the lore, it's very important and I hope we have a deep one to learn about, (keyword hope) im sure it won't be the Silmarilion but with some interesting and dense story, with lots of characters and.. yeah, basically a well written story, we'll be set.

Edit: Most of these things like emotes or instruments could be added in a later patch and would be perfectly fine.

And to be clear, i may not be a massive PVPer, but i will do my part, and i hope for the best possible PVP combat system possible. The point is, it should encompass both sides and have all gain from it.

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