PVP or RPpvp server? What's the difference?

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People dancing on top of mailboxes.

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You can get saucy on an rppvp server.

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main difference is really the names. if you are someone that thinks naming yourself after one of your skills, or a politician, or one of the 8 billion cow joke names is cool, go pvp.

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On one you’re just a loser on the other you’re a scurvy knave.

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You’re subject to the RP ruleset on RP-PvP servers. Naming conventions are stricter, as are the rules on griefing when it come to RP and RP events.

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rp pvp is like pvp but no one will take you seriously

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Rppvp is more immersive. Guilds will claim bases out in contested zones and other faction guilds will try and raid there base then it turns into wpvp. Kinda like the tarren mill south shore battles started.

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But I was thinking that this would be impossible because there is very limited communication with the other side :slightly_frowning_face: Otherwise I totally would try to talk to them.

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It is exactly the same as a PVP server except for two things.

  1. Some people role play
  2. That role play might involve killing and camping you because story
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Nug nug…

er I mean, I remember in vanilla you could /e and write anything you want. Just write it out as if /e was your name and it would show up in chat as an orange emote text. I forgot to see if they fixed that in the stress test.

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Pun names are quite acceptable in many cases. There are limits of course.

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You could do that in vanilla but the other faction couldn’t see what you wrote in custom emotes. For example, if you were horde and did something like “/e hey ur cute” then the alliance would only see “Nupe makes some strange gestures” on their end.

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That’s how they fixed it… it wasn’t always that way.

I had loads of fun with it.

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It may have been like that in the very early patches, can’t remember personally but for the majority of classic it was in the fixed state. By 1.12 it was definitely fixed so we’ll get the fixed version.

One exception to that rule though was if you were mind controlled. There was one horde priest that would always MC me and then emote to tell me what kind of pizza he was getting lol.

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Really all you need is just a basic idea of who your character is and how they would respond to things.

That and to put (( )) around anything that is OOC (out of character) when you are speaking in IC (in character) channels so people know when it’s YOU speaking vs your character. MOST channels aside from /say and /yell are gonna be OOC all the time unless it’s an RP specific channel.

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/e pickpockets 15 silver from you!

and then watch the hilarity ensue…

Yeah, didn’t last long.

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Stricter policing for chat (at least in theory) which means you don’t need to hear identical political trolling day in and day out.