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Set your phaser back to "stun", Cap'n Shendorian. :)
 
The Dommie side of RP needs the Exiles and vice-versa. If we could get some good arrangement, even if its a temporary one to get things rolling while we wait for a solution, I'm all for it.	
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So much awesome I can hardly contain it
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I love this post and want to have its babies. :D Thank you for expressing my thoughts so much better than I was managing.
 
Roleplayers are worth paying attention to. We are your long-term customers! And when you pay attention to many of the things we like, we bring in a whole lot of other people as well who see systems that benefit them even though they aren't necessarily roleplayers.
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			Now if only we could get some cinematic camera control for making awesome machinima videos ;)Come on we would make such awesome videos that everyone would see and be great marketing....... or am I just being cheeky now :P	
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Not cheeky at all, actually, I've played MMORPGs where the staff explicitly tried to make it as easy as possible for the people who like making those videos to do so.
 
Smart marketing, IMHO.	
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			The servers are back up.  Cant seem to find the dedicated RP channel the devs said would be in place...	
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The servers are back up.  Cant seem to find the dedicated RP channel the devs said would be in place...
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			Not even an hour into the megaserverpocalypse and the first three zones I enter I see nothing but people trolling the RPers.  Definitely not renewing and wish folks the best of luck.	
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Not even an hour into the megaserverpocalypse and the first three zones I enter I see nothing but people trolling the RPers.  Definitely not renewing and wish folks the best of luck.
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I feel your pain man, I truly do. I am a PVPer, 'swept under the rug' doesn't quite describe the PVP community but we are frustrated as well. There is a lot of PVP content in Wildstar that is not happening at the moment, existing content. These guys got their plates packed full, it's really hard but we gotta be patient. Drop 3 isn't going to be some wonder patch that fixes everything, I wouldn't know what to say to someone who thinks that. What it needs to be is a big step in the right direction.
 
Everything needs to be coded and tested, even if it seems simple, reality may be different. Personally cross faction plots aren't something I would want them to throw in haphazardly. Allowing enemy players to coexist in a shared space sounds difficult to do correctly. If they ever implement cross faction housing it should be introduced with a suite of complementary features and safeguards. How cool would it be to have a plug that posts guards on your plot? Roughly similar to the hobo train but widespread and set to kill anyone who attacks other players. It could even have a special little graveyard where offenders respawn in a prison cell :P Dare to dream I guess... no such thing would exist on my plot though, open to all as long as you are prepared to die.
 
On Bloodsworn, my original server, there was a player driven dueling league: The WFC. Several guilds had dedicated dueling arenas, matches were held on different plots weekly. As a PVP player I also think it would be great to have cross faction housing for hosting these kinds of player driven events. While I'm pulling things out of the air, I don't actually want a house. I want a big blank PVP slab in the center of my plot where anyone can kill anyone else outside their party. Just so you could do crazy stuff like 2v2v2v2 or a big free for all. Oh and here's the arena my guildies built for the dueling league:
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/99317-internecion-dueling-dojo-internecion-d/
and I guess yay megaserver, I can visit it again
 
Now that /rpsay /rpyell and other RP specific communication are in, the chances are much better that they will be able to tune them to RP appropriate distances. It sounds promising to me at least. Reducing /say range previously may have had a negative effect for the general population. 
 
 
I typed most of the above this morning but couldn't send it before work. Sorry if anything is redundant thread grew a bit. I was just gunna post it but I figured I would tack a couple extra crazy ideas on the end...
 
They could get around the lore aspect of plot location with a quest chain. Cross faction housing could be locked behind a long, difficult series of quests and tasks requiring high end materials and items with expensive renown/prestige/gold costs. I'm not sure what protostar rep is used for currently but getting a cross faction plot should require max rep. 
 
You could choose between two quest branches. One offers a plot in a peaceful environment free from factional discrimination while the other is in a completely lawless zone. 
 
In the lawless district you can enter a random plot at anytime, kill anyone you encounter regardless of faction and loot their plot resources. Resource plugs give 200% to the harvester(100% for harvesting your own plot) unless they die before making it out, then it goes to the killer. Plugs could offer defenses like guards, sentry guns or stealth detectors. Players killed by automated defenses lose a small amount of gold sent to the plot owner. Should not be able to choose who's plot you enter and you should die if you stay on someones land too long, everyone knows it takes 7 minutes and 32 seconds for a death ray to charge. No roomates, no neighbors, no privacy. Anyone who comes on your land has to fight your house :) 
 
What happens in that other place does not concern me.
 
Well, my job is done here. I'll be looking forward to drop 18	
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I'm perfectly fien creating ym own RP tools in code. But I really need input / support from the Carbine folks. There are things that don't work quite right with addon communication.
 
We can actually chat across faction, but addon communication doesn't work that way. So PDA, can't actually work across faction without a big cache of players you gather on both sides. I would like this capability as well as fixes for the whole global channels only problem I've been pointing out on the addon forums for months. (This is the source of PDA crashing your system, too much data you don't need is being received)
 
Being able to send Whispers and addon whispers across faction (and in general) would be a good thing for RP addons as well as the rest of the community.	
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Now if only we could get some cinematic camera control for making awesome machinima videos ;)
Come on we would make such awesome videos that everyone would see and be great marketing....
 
... or am I just being cheeky now :P
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Apologies upfront as I have not read this entire thread, only the first page.  Normally I read the entire thing before posting but I'm under a time crunch, I'll get to it later tomorrow and see if I was saying anything silly/stupid/etc and make any necessary apologies past my initial ones.
 
I have always been partial to RP servers, having been a PnP RPer for the past 30 some years (yeah, I'm a old fart).  Though i wasn't on a RP server, I did visit Evindra and was immediately impressed with the friendly personality on both sides of the faction fence, but I didn't roll on it since when I bought WS it was already known that all servers would merge together so I didn't see the point in it.
 
My first thought visiting Evindra was that it was a shame that the RP communities were going to get lumped together with those who have no interest in RP, particularly when there are rulesets that could've been done for RP servers that are unlikely to see the light of day on a regular server.  Such as the ability to make /ignore far more robust than just blocking what someone is saying, but to totally make them invisible to anyone who's ignore list they were on.  That means no emotes, no power signatures, absolutely not a single action by the player on the list would be visible to those they had offended, that person essentially ceases to exist for those who's ignore lists he sits on.  PvE players will shrug and not see the point, but RPers would fall down gush over such a feature.  Sadly, there's little point to do it with a mega-server.
 
Another feature is cross faction communication.  I understand why most games that have faction based PvP do this, because it blocks intelligence gathering and for BGs its very important that the other team doesn't know what you're saying.  However, step away from BGs and have flagged PvP and its totally different, and for RPers its even more of a crippling barrier they struggle against for which there is no real reason for it to exist.
 
RP is about telling interactive stories, the essence of a story is always about conflict, and for that conflict to have any sort of interesting exchange requires the ability to be able to communicate.  Warring nations often know how to speak the language of the enemy, so suggesting that one faction wouldn't know the language of the other doesn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny.  While one can argue that for a mega-server this cannot be entertained, I'd say that isn't true, not on a PvE mega server at least.
 
A serious assist that Carbine could give the RP community is to lift that language barrier in open world and housing plots (keep it in the BGs/Arenas/Warplots, it still serves a real purpose there).  Or if that seems too open ended, allow players to "Friend" people on the opposing faction and then those are the only ones where communication can take place.  Admittedly, that means people who want to RP on the PvP mega-server are left a bit in the cold (which is actually where I came from in WoW, Emerald Dream was a RP-PvP server) but I don't have any constructive suggestions to deal with that server set.  Since any open world PvP that would take place on a PvE server would be due to the involved parties flagging themselves for it and as such, can turn it off when the need arises.
 
Final suggestion before my timer runs out is cross faction housing plots, be it on PvP or PvE mega-servers is a serious must have, especially if they're accessible by invite only, and of course in game cross faction communication is a given.  The housing plots do not need to enforce the faction divide and Carbine can set up areas in the game world that devoted exclusively to that to where people who share that interest know where to hang out away from the rest of the buzz of the server's activity.
 
None of this is stuff that would have to be done right away, but having Devs comment about it as to whether or not they'd consider it would give RPers something to look forward to.  And yes, if the Devs said they wouldn't bother with it, it'd be held against them but then the RP community would at least know where the Dev's stood and not hold out pointless hope for a nod in their direction.  Also, those who aren't into RP could still benefit from cross faction housing plot allowances, for I truly do not see how it could in any way negatively impact a faction even on a PvP server.	
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I don't understand the desire for cross-faction housing, why is that something we need?  I can understand getting rid of the "language barrier"(I can hear/read what opposing faction NPC's say, so it doesn't make sense that players can't /say, /yell :P), and cross faction mail, but I don't understand cross faction housing.  
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Plots are next to capitols; good luck lore-mangling a way to have exiles / dominion chilling in gunshot range of the places on Nexus most heavily guarded by the two main factions voluntarily and permissibly. The old plot raiding idea was a good one; could still be cool.
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Now if only we could get some cinematic camera control for making awesome machinima videos ;)
Come on we would make such awesome videos that everyone would see and be great marketing....
 
... or am I just being cheeky now :P
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Mr. Anlath
 
I tried the RP chat settings. Only problem was, I couldn't see my IC guild channel or my RP circles and so I couldn't talk to me friends while I RPed. Or receive whispers.
 
Is this all or nothing approach really all that's possible?	
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Mr. Anlath
 
I tried the RP chat settings. Only problem was, I couldn't see my IC guild channel or my RP circles and so I couldn't talk to me friends while I RPed. Or receive whispers.
 
Is this all or nothing approach really all that's possible?
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I don't have the option of both. 
 
I either have only "All messages" "RP only" or "No RP"	
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			Yeah. I think the "All messages" is the same as "Both".	
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Honestly the best feature would be good Render Target integration with Twitch API or similar, did a talk at Develop about it http://youtu.be/iCsZe1JfRMQ?t=20m7s
Which honestly is a lot easier than devs think, I've pushed more than one studio into this. I'm a consultant in the industry :P
 
Greenscreen would be awesome.
 
I could think of a few ways to do a cinematic camera.
 
> Give No-clip flying ability in housing plots and ability to speed up or slow down fly speed (could be tied to decor item use)
> Ability to place decor item that is static camera (not sure if your vehicle/mode scripting could)
 
Though this is all big thinking stuff :P Give us the small stuff first.	
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But this is not flexible enough.
 
I need to see my IC channel, I need to get whispers and I need to see my RP circles.
 
Please make this more flexible or else I will never use it. Sorry.	
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Still trying to work out the best way to use RP-chat and Killroy. Problem is some people started using {*} inline for emotes.
Example: 
 
Kym: I don't know shrug over that hill	
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Yeah. I think the "All messages" is the same as "Both".
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