148821-roleplay

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			I wonder if there is any roleplay in this game or were you can go to experince it. I am new to the game and im still learning.	
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			/chjoinWSRP will get you in touch with the RP community. The channel is OOC so no pressure to jump right.  If you are NA server, Entity is the one to go for RP's :)  Welcome!	
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There's also the WildStar Roleplay community website, which at the very least can give you a calendar of public events for you to dip your toes into!
 
Welcome to WS and yay roleplayer!	
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I wonder if there is any roleplay in this game or were you can go to experince it. I am new to the game and im still learning.
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There is, and apparently the Thayd auction house is the place to be? 
 
Edit: On rereading, that sounded snarkier than I intended. I don't have anything against RP, I'm not one of those people who thinks there's only one way to have fun, it's just the Thayd AH seems a odd place to do it for hours on end. 
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Lots of RP happens in housing plots, from what I've heard/seen.
 
Occasionally still see people RPing in cities though.	
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			I wonder, would an RP channel be a helpful addition to the game? I don't RP myself, but like I said, I don't have a problem with it. But when I see it going on in the cities I can't help but wonder if that's... optimal. For the RPers, isn't there the problem of being drown out by all the other chat in the city, or worse people commenting on, jokingly joining in, or deliberately mocking the conversations? And on the other hand, everyone who isn't RPing is having their chat logs filled up with, in many cases, what feels like poorly written fanfiction. Would an RP channel help this? Or, should /say and emotes have their transmission distance reduced? Just sort of wondering out loud. 	
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A lot of RPers use Killroy, which already reduces the say/emote range. It's possible the people you hear RPing at the AH are actually quite a bit further away. The say range is ludicrous.
 
There's already an RP filter of sorts in says, it's just that no one uses it because {*} enclosing your words in these things all the time {*} is super annoying.	
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A lot of RPers use Killroy, which already reduces the say/emote range. It's possible the people you hear RPing at the AH are actually quite a bit further away. The say range is ludicrous.
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*Chirps in*
 
ChatSplitter is another RP add-on.  Rather than suppress distant posts, it handles them by making them appear in a dimmer color, allowing you to read them but visually filter them out if the area is noisy.  Additionally, it not only breaks long posts apart in the same way Killroy does, it also glues them back together again on receipt so they appear as one large post instead of multiple broken-up ones.
 
RE: Would a channel for RP be helpful?  Yes, and each server and faction has created their own RP channel.  They're pretty well documented on the WSRP website, under the RP orientation guide link on there.
 
As mentioned above, though, many resources available for getting involve with the RP community.  Good luck!
			
				
	Edited January 11, 2016 by Frakkle	
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Unfortunately Killroy only works if the recipient has installed it.  Say/emote range is way too far.  Might even be too far for /yell distance.
 
I forget exactly why nobody uses them.  IIRC even with the option turned off the default chat addon still spits out a line with the text between the tags removed so you start seeing a bunch of posts from people saying nothing at all.  That and it's a pain to use.
 
An addon can help here BUT the stock one is such a mess that anybody wishing to author an alternative would be better off starting from scratch.
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Unfortunately Killroy only works if the recipient has installed it.  Say/emote range is way too far.  Might even be too far for /yell distance.
 
I forget exactly why nobody uses them.  IIRC even with the option turned off the default chat addon still spits out a line with the text between the tags removed so you start seeing a bunch of posts from people saying nothing at all.  That and it's a pain to use.
 
An addon can help here BUT the stock one is such a mess that anybody wishing to author an alternative would be better off starting from scratch.
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