People who created toons with the sole purpose of disrupting the RPers while they were doing whatever they do? Ganking, killing NPCs and just generally disrupting things. And if so, what was the reaction of the server?
Yes, very very bad marry sue outlaws.
“usually 12-year-old boys who thought they where mature”
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Oh. . not outlaws, you mean griefers!! Sorry, . . and yes. . plenty of those.
Often, when a PVE or PVP realm was down RP servers, would get flooded with griefers.
We would report them and move on. If it lasted then just go somewhere else. It made little since trying to engage with them.
Of course, we would do the same when our server went down. But normally it consisted of a naked gnome run to org or something.
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I did indeed mean griefers. Basically people who had no intention of participating in RP but just wanted to be a dick. But your answer is interesting actually. So there were outlaws that were part of the Role play?
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Yes. RP is a fascinating thing really. It truly is like an onion.
I played on RP servers for a more mature palyerbase but did do some character back story and server-wide storylines once upon a time. But if I had to classify myself it would be a very very lightweight RP person.
Now… on the other hand you have varying layers of RPers from those who try to get everyone to agree that they are the center of the universe and basically a raid boss to those who… well. . sadly the moon guard goldshire type. Hey man .each their own right?
The outlaws were those who had in their bio that they were outcasts and this and that. . And EVERYONE wanted to be an outcast. lol
I started playing late mop and remember creating a toon on moonguard just to see goldshire. It probably was already past it’s prime but it was quite interesting lol. If people enjoy that, more power to them!
I’ve never RP’d or played on an RP server, but what’s the RP situation like when everyone’s starting at level 1 at the same time? Does that even matter in RP?
Inquiring minds want to know. Mostly me.
I remember one orc. He reached level 60 and all he did was to answer calls in World Defense. I recall some of his backstory…he swore his life to defend the weak and less powerful then him.
That was his game. When they removed World Defense channel they, for all intents and purposes, killed his character.
He then made a long post on the forums and bid everyone goodbye as he was quitting the game for real.
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I’ve wondered that too. How does the leveling work and are certain “lower ranking” role players not allowed to unless they are given permission? RP isn’t something that I would participate in, but it is fascinating.
That’s a pretty depressing short explanation on why blizzard is horrible.
That world defense guy should have been celebrated. He was unique at least and people like that are rare these days!
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Layerception. That must be why they can’t do RP-PVP, can’t contain that many layers.
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You can level however you want.
You can participate as much or as little as you want.
I did a lot of emotes.
For a good example of RP bad guys go google the Ooga gang.
They are 3 rogues all with “ooga” in their name wandering all over killing alliance including streamers in the beta. They have made themselves notorious already…even the pserver crowd are talking about them
Griefing/ganking taken to the RP level.
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I saw a few vids that f the Ooga gang. They are great! Very coordinated too. Impressed with them. Glad I’m on their side.
Someone on reddit created a backstory for the ooga gang.
These guy fit perfectly your description of bad guys RP style.
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/c1svgc/ooga_gang/
Legends whisper of the identities of these heroes of the horde.
Some say they are rank 14 veterans driven insane by the grind.
Some say they are the former devs of private servers, exacting their unique form of revenge on anyone who makes their living on retail classic.
What we do know is they are the heroes we need, even if they’re not the heroes we deserve.
I know that when we were on Lightninghoof, we had a list of horde players who spent a significant portion of their time killing Alliance and Alliance quest givers (Honor Hold being particularly popular). VanaKOS (addon) had a guild shared “kill on sight” list. Anyone in guild could add to the list or even white list someone and include the reason.
Some of them had reached points of notoriety that we would just go camp them until they reached a max rez timer whenever we saw them. “/g Guys, X is at this location. Let me know if you want an invite.”
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Back in the early days of WoW, RP griefers were punished by Blizzard. They were much stricter about RP realm activity back then. Now, RP realms are nothing more than just a suggestion for where to go to RP.
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It would be nice to have a guild that did this on a RP server.
RP pvp servers are the Wildwest clearly, we listen to Johnny cash, drink hard ale and steal Cadillac’s, when we ain’t robbing trains.
On a serious note this is much more common on RP servers then RP-PVP servers, there’s much more Resistance on a RP-PVP server then there is on a Normal RP one. save with normal servers compared to PVP
Of course if you’ll haven’t check out this den of outlaw’s here and support the push
Can’t imagine why they’d let you kill NPCs or players if killing them was considered “griefing.”