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.

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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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Ramirez

One think that helps alot RP is VO but i think won´t be possible in AOC, i have my best RP experiences in Rust

Grihm

Ramirez wrote: »

One think that helps alot RP is VO but i think won´t be possible in AOC, i have my best RP experiences in Rust

What would not work, and why is it not possible in AoC then?

ForlornFly

At the moment they are still just trying to get the core of the game working properly, so currently it doesn’t seem like much RP support has been implemented. After spending a perhaps unhealthy amount of time watching interviews and reading forums however, I can confirm that Steven does recognize the role-players and has said something along the lines of accommodating them. Emotes are confirmed, as are furniture and cosmetic coloring.
Also the fact that player run taverns are confirmed to be possible and eventually will be a fairly fleshed out mechanic, speaks well to the quantity of RP content likely to be introduced.
I additionally saw some talk about role-players being harassed, and while I admit to not knowing much about that (I’m still fairly new and haven’t gotten much into the community yet) the corruption system should help a lot. Not sure how much you’ve looked into it, but it seems like it will do a really good job of stopping unwanted PKing. The amount of grind they would have to do just to get rid of consequences for a kill with little to no reward might not stop everyone, but I can’t imagine it being a huge issue, or at least as huge of an issue as in other games.

Noaani

Grihm wrote: »

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.

This is the closest thing to a list I have seen in this thread.

Of these, I would imagine the ability to sit will be in the game, as will the ability to use furniture. Lying down I would expect to only be a ting in relation to furniture.

Clothing options are already in game, there is a page with most of the cosmetic costumes available here, and you can see that some of them are clothing rather than armor. However, keep in mind that the costumes made so far are mostly designed to catch peoples imagination, so expect a higher proportion of more mundane costumes when the game launches (and also expect more over the top ones as well).

I would also expect the ability to walk rather than run to be in the game.

You can set your house (apartment, static or freehold) to be available to your whole guild, you can also design a guild logo and display it in your house (or outside of your house, in your node for passers by to see - if you happen to have a static house).

For furniture, they have already confirmed beds, chairs, tables, desks, shelves, dressers, cabinets and chests. They have also discussed adding things like houseplants that have actual use (harvests, most likely). Even if they don't go with this plan, I would expect to see house plants as a decorative item, as well as rugs, utensils, tools and implements, along with a whole host of other things. When it comes to adding housing decorations, it really is fairly simple and almost any art asset in the game can be fairly easily made in to a house decoration.

Emotes are another thing that we know will be in the game, and I see no reason why custom emotes can't exist.

I am not sure what you mean by trade options for traveling RP guilds, though there is money to be made in Ashes from taking items long distances.

So, most of what is being asked for is already said to be intended to be in the game.

Dreoh

Vhaeyne wrote: »

You filthy RP heathens should have emotes and chairs. That is it.

Taverns, Tavern games, VoIP, ect... is all a waste of dev time that just attracts weirdos to the game.

If this offends you, then you are a weirdo...

George_Black

Played witcher 4 times. Never once did I bother with the card game.

LowQuey

It's role-playing. You use your imagination...

Beck Altarr

I am working on an online radio that I hope will include people who want to RP/voice radio drama's, fake ads that would be in the world and all that. In character show hosts. Music wont be very RP obviously, but I will have "tavern/Bard friendly" music for some shows. It's a work in progress. Info in my sig if anyone is interested. Just getting the stream going now and sorting music.

Grihm

LowQuey wrote: »

It's role-playing. You use your imagination...

Elaborate on the meaning of this please. I don´t really think you either read the actual OP, or you have a misunderstanding of what it´s about.

Dygz

Roleplaying is best when you can actually sit in a chair, rather than just type:
[Dygz sits in chair] and everyone just imagines I'm sitting even though my avatar is still standing.

If we could also drink from a cup or mug, like we see in the Palia trailer, that would be awesome!!

Grihm

I have a feeling some may be confusing the Games genre with doing actual RP, and the tools often needed for it.

Just because you walk into a bank, that does not make you rich, just as playing an RPG does not mean you are automatically roleplaying.

Yuyukoyay

I remember seeing a video of a pandaren monk who was playing WoW on the trial edition. He logged in just to run around visiting various temples just to bow to every npc he saw and every temple alter he came across.

I don't think you gotta give RPers a whole lot for them to be satisfied. xD

tautau

Off topic a bit, I remember having a character in L2 whose name, totally unintentionally on my part, was one which Mandarin speakers assumed indicated that I was something like the 'wife of the high triad' and gold farmers would bow as I went by.

Grihm

Yuyukoyay wrote: »

I remember seeing a video of a pandaren monk who was playing WoW on the trial edition. He logged in just to run around visiting various temples just to bow to every npc he saw and every temple alter he came across.

I don't think you gotta give RPers a whole lot for them to be satisfied. xD

That can also be a slippery slope, because far too often, roleplayers are left with the absolute basics alone. Just take one of the most long term insane systems in The Old Republic. Even to this day, there are no chat bubbles, but a roleplay session is supposed to fit in with the general chat instead. That is, let´s say a disaster.

Many times, it´s just the option wanted to be able to use what´s already in the game. Furniture is an absolut basic one as an example, and we know furniture will come yes, but it also hopefully let us actually use them.

From there, on it goes.

Dygz

"Roleplay session" is a different animal. True.
Not something I am interested in. It's different than what I believe the RP in MMORPG stands for.

Grihm

Dygz wrote: »

"Roleplay session" is a different animal. True.
Not something I am interested in. It's different than what I believe the RP in MMORPG stands for.

English is not my native language, so i´l elaborate.

RP session is what i refer too when speaking of roleplaying with someone else and a conversation is needed.
I do not actively RP 24/7 when i play at every time, but i never break the immersion of people around that may be. I do not sprint all over, no bunny hopping, no screaming random " leet speech " in open chat, and / or anything else that would really stick out.

I have made a habit out of always log on, and try to blend in, and that is all it takes really to not stand out. When i roleplay with people, i have very little to " activate " but to type my sayings, or voice them in VOIP.

Dygz

I mean, you could have a conversation with other players using chat bubbles and it be about the current football game, rather than RP.

A conversation using chat bubbles is not necessarily RP.
And, I don't think you need a "session" just to use chat bubbles to have a conversation in character with other player characters.
"RP session" reminds me of the people who use a GM to create imaginary stories with the game world as a theatrical stage.

Ashes does have chat bubbles already in the Alpha One Preview.

Yuyukoyay

I do like chat bubbles. I can tell who said what without having to name check. xD

Dygz

Got a nice response tweet from AshesofCreation just now:
"Roleplaying will not be delegated to just taverns, but taverns will provide an encouraging space specifically for this. Offering rested experience, parlor games, and other such activities will help create an environment for great stories to unfold."
Nothing super-new.

Something about the timing of this mention has me thinking about visiting a tavern to help overcome XP debt.

Grihm

Dygz wrote: »

I mean, you could have a conversation with other players using chat bubbles and it be about the current football game, rather than RP.

A conversation using chat bubbles is not necessarily RP.
And, I don't think you need a "session" just to use chat bubbles to have a conversation in character with other player characters.
"RP session" reminds me of the people who use a GM to create imaginary stories with the game world as a theatrical stage.

Ashes does have chat bubbles already in the Alpha One Preview.

You seem to overthink the word RP session. Like i said..it´s just me using that as a term...it´s my own way of shortening anything down that encompasses roleplay in general with others.

Last, it´s quite obviously that a chat bubble would be used by anyone, but you could have a tool setting for this just as chat channels. An RP bubble option, that should be used for RP, as a trade channel should be used for trade etc.

No, you don´t need a " session " to RP, but if there are different channels for different usage of chat, why could not RP be one? Otherwise we should just have every single chat option, being regional, siege, pvp etc in one single box combined and mixed.

The point is, it would be very messy, i think you would agree.

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