So, I’ve been on this server for a few years. Why don’t people go explore away from the city much if at all? I just see people being toxic, bullying each other, be creepy and harass others for ages and no one moves.
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Lots of reasons, though mostly it’s either to roleplay or to watch other people roleplay. Most people do go explore away from the city regularly either with friends or guilds, but the city is like a home base where connections are made or you can find people down for some quick, unscheduled rp.
Personally, I’m usually the one walking up to roleplay with people, but there are some instances where I will just pick a spot and plop down. Basically, it’s for times when I’m not explicitly planning to roleplay, but am open to it. These include chatting with friends in whispers, planning out transmogs, or trying to decide what I feel like doing in game that day.
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i pay this company $15 a month so i can hang out in my spot and afk to watch youtube and there’s not a gosh darn flipping thing you can do to stop me!!!
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Some of us do. My guild travels and makes base all around the map. We do a fair bit of SW RP to promote the company, but most of the time we’re out and about, killing horde and looking for leprechauns.
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Because they forget that theres other cities aside from SW and are too afraid to go out of their comfort zone to go there.
I’m usually running around Stormwind waiting for a PvP BG queue to pop. My toon freelances with the Alliance Militia (PvP) and sometimes they pull Rogue Booping duty (usually because she’s pissed off Mathias Shaw and he wants her to go bother someone else).
To curb Horde rogue incursions into Stormwind Mathias came up with the rogue booping program. The Pook runs through the city and when she detects someone stealthed she boops them. If they stab her then she knows they’re a bad guy. If they don’t then they are not and the Pook continues her patrol. And while on Rogue Booping duty the Pook will stop and chat with people (if they’re under level 30 because the Pook is a F2P toon) or just watch the activity going on in the city.
But sometimes I get tired while Rogue Booping and the queues aren’t popping so I’ll just have myself a nice sit somewhere and watch the the world go by (until a Horde rogue stabs me).
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I haven’t played since casual Wrath and just rejoined so take my opinion with a grain of salt… but I think it’s nice background noise or to interject now and then when doing other things without feeling really invested or having to fully concentrate. We’re all really used to social media these days being the norm, but there’s something about forums and things like trade chat that has the cozy feel of low-investment hanging out and old-internet socializing.
Phasing, Sharding, Warmode, and cross realm antics easily breaks open world roleplay. World of Warcraft became increasingly less RP friendly due to these mechanics parting people from one another. Stormwind and Orgrimmar are the central hubs with all the attractions, so people will congregate where the roleplay is at.
Guilds and friend groups are more likely to leave because they have a mutual mind to roleplay elsewhere. Whereas someone going solo will likely find no roleplay activity at all without drawing attention that way.
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With community discords that’s not really the case especially when they post events and what not.
There needs to be more guided communuties for the other cities to try and bring rp there too.
Might not be, but I’m heavily discouraged by the need of 3rd party resources to find roleplay as is. Most people who are just joining aren’t given clear directions on where these community discords are found except through the spread of shared word.
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By word of mouth usually or they advertise the discord in other guilds or other types of events. All you have to do is ask and ye shall receive.
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I think many of the other zones have sharding enabled, so Stormwind is less annoying to find RP.
We vibin’.
Which is unfortunately not the same as finding RP that’s less annoying…
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I don’t think sharding has affected other places. I think it was just SW that was affected by the sharding. Was able to see people at the Ironforge Market when sharding was going on and people outside of the Assembly of Three Hammers raid group for senators, and interact with them.
Aye!
Raises a flagon of dwarven stout
For Ironforge!
Self-fulfilling prophecy sorta deal.
want to RP
few to no RP interactions outside of cities (excluding planned community events/guilds
most ppl RP in SW
I’ll RP in SW because that’s where the RP is
No one ever leaves because not enough people are out in open world
It would take a shift in like the whole RP community for more folks to move from the cities. The best you can really do is sit in SW and advertise on your profile that you want open world RP. If you find anyone RPing out in the world, it was probably a set occasion.
Plus, there are a lot of zones out there and a lot of people who will probably not have reasons to be in those specific zones that others happen to be in. But most characters have ties or reasons to be in SW
And aforementioned sharding in zones like Hyjal (and I think Stonetalon?) and such places. Can’t speak much for EK zones tho, Kalimdor is my first and only love
SW is the rp hub… of course people are gonna hang out and idle. Theoretically it could be Ironforge or something, just like ArgentDawn-EU has the opposite side of Stormwind populated, but currently it’s SW Lamb/Park/etc. as the main hub and hence the choice spots for sitting and doing nothing!