124308-hi-i-am-new-and-i-have-a-couple-of-questions-rp-wise

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So hello,
 
My name is James, I've been playing World of Warcraft for about 10 years now, and since me and my guild started to notice that the game is dying we started to search for different MMORPG's to play for in between now and 2-3 weeks.
 
So we want to try out this game, but first I would like to know a couple of things before we are actually taking measureable steps towards being the game and become a active community member.
 
1) Is there a lot of RP going on?
We are massive active RPers, we love to RP. And we basically can't do anything else in the game than just RPing. We're changing on this here but we just want to know if there is RP. And if so, is it large scale or short.
 
2) How is the community like?
I mean I can sit here on the forums looking at the posts but that doesn't give me an accurate insight on how the community is. So how is the community overall?
 
3) Are there any specific rules in the game about RP?
 
Those were my questions, I hope a dev/mod or any community member will respond to this. And I will be reading every single comment happily by myself
 
Best Regards,
 
James Pattinsons	
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Hi James!
 
I take it from your location that you'd be interested in the EU community. I'll try to answer your questions best I can but hopefully others will come along and share their views as well. As far as I know, Jabbit (the EU PvE megaserver) is the place to be for RP since the PvP server Luminai sadly witnessed a mass-exodus after the megaserver merge, leaving it barren while people wait for PvP-improvements.
 
1) There is a lot of RP going on, though it might not be evident at the get-go. Due to the very flexible housing system most roleplaying tends to happen in instanced player housing. Hence, open-world RP isn't as common as in other games. Also, the RP community went through a dark time after the megaserver merge as the population dropped. Recently people have started coming back though and we're rebuilding the community, seeing new faces daily. For a more detailed description of the state of RP on Jabbit and how to get involved in the community, consider reading my post about it on http://wildstar-roleplay.com/forum/m/11410152/viewthread/18949372-regarding-rp-community-on-jabbit/post/93854388#p93854388
 
There's both large-scale and small-scale RP going on, but as usual the deeper, more involving storylines takes place between people who know each other (such as in guilds) so you're likely to happen across more social RP at first. As with RP in any game, the best way to get something going is to create it yourself!
 
2) In my opinion, the RP community and the Wildstar community in general is one of the friendliest and most helpful I've come across in an MMO. It seems that the game has been able to attract and maintain a more tolerating and mature playerbase than other games and people are generally lovely. Mind, people are people and there will always be the occassional rotten egg. As for activity, it is slowly but steadily on the rise as the amount of players increases.
 
3) As far as I know there aren't any special rules that apply when roleplaying in Wildstar. The standard stuff applies: godmoting and metagaming is frowned upon and roleplay is done through /say and /e which you will recognize from WoW. I strongly suggest picking up the Killroy addon as it limits the insane /say range and provides nice RP features such as highlighting speech in emotes and enabling cross-faction chat (which effectively enables RP between Exiles and Dominion).
 
As for lore I'd recommend looking through Loremaggadon and the interactive storyline first, as they both provide great insight into the races and their history. There's also a load if ingame lore that you collect as you play the game which is available from the lore section (little book-button in the bottom left of your UI). As I mentioned in the post I linked I also strongly recommend becomming active on http://wildstar-roleplay.com/ and maybe even ask these questions there, as well as join the LFRP channel (regardless of faction) by typing /chjoin LFRP and saying hi :)
 
Lastly, don't miss out on the free trial which gives you 10 days of free playtime. Sadly it imposes a lot of restrictions in your contact with other players, but it can be a good thing to be able to get a feel for the setting and environment.
 
Hope I've been able to shed some light on things. Please poke if there's anything else you wonder, and I hope to see you and your friends on Nexus soon!
 
Cheers!
 
/ Ally	
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Pretty much what Ally wrote.
Also on Dominion side our guild hosts a weekly RP event in "The Golden Jabbit", a housing plot owned by one of our members.
Feel free to drop by every wednesday, starting at 21:00
You can add me or Farawy Blinn ingame as friend if you wish.	
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Fantastic!
Thanks for the reply Ally.
 
Currently trying out the free trial. Enjoying the game immensely at the moment.
Noticed that the game requires some real computer specs to be performing atleast decent.	
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