Wot in an Oppressed Nation

Mellee-moon-guard · February 15, 2019, 10:14pm

Ouch.
10 ch

Karmas-wyrmrest-accord · February 15, 2019, 10:15pm

I didn’t come up with that one but I’m not saying who did, I ain’t a narc.

Taalva-wyrmrest-accord · February 15, 2019, 10:27pm

I hope he steps on all the legos barefoot

Mellee-moon-guard · February 15, 2019, 10:42pm

I hope his next warm meal cools to that awkward not-quite-room-temperature before he’s finished.

Cadlington-wyrmrest-accord · February 15, 2019, 10:48pm

Neither version of those Discord links are working for me.

Azhaarder-wyrmrest-accord · February 15, 2019, 10:48pm

Same, they just load my existing Discord servers in a new tab.

Lintsehsu-wyrmrest-accord · February 15, 2019, 11:35pm

So, out of all these MMOs we’re migrating to (ESO, GW2, Final fantasy), how are their RP scenes?

I asked earlier about the RP scene in SWTOR, thinking that a game with such an emphasis on story and worldbuilding would have a thriving RP scene, and I got mixed responses, mostly emphasizing that while there is some RP, it is almost all on Empire side (I wonder why?)

Mellee-moon-guard · February 15, 2019, 11:42pm

FFXIV: More often than not when I inspect someone because I like their armor, they have a note indicating they RP in their search info.

EDIT: Also went to a player-run bar and social club operated out of a large housing plot last night, was fun.

Siberos-sargeras · February 16, 2019, 12:01am

GW2 rp pretty much died when Megaservers were introduced a year into the game with guild based stuff being the only things that exist now

XIV has ingame features that support RP but its the community itself that makes XIV’s rp thrive

Solafina-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 12:07am

I’ve got an archer, but my main is a pally that’s gonna pick up all the tanking jobs, sure I could have everything on him but he’s not the kinda man to shoot things, he’s the kinda man to get up in something’s face and tell it to hit him.

Azhaarder-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 12:30am

Okay, I give up. Where do you unlock glamour in FF14? I thought somebody said it was from a quest in the desert area. I’ve been all over Ul’dah and found nothing. Well, I found somebody named Count Butt-toucher posting in gen chat and two IC Miqo’te getting to second base in public, but nothing I was looking for.

Miko-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 12:30am

This is also the case in ESO (which always had megaservers). There are guilds for RP but no open world stuff because of how the servers work. Old school monolithic servers present lots of technical issues but it really helps RP communities thrive when they can have their own server where everyone exists in the same world.

Even in WoW RP is sorta threatened by CRZ, phasing and sharding in certain zones… makes me wish they’re just turn sharding on for the first couple weeks of an expansion and turn it off completely afterwards, because I suspect the lag and congestion wouldn’t be that great. We did just fine without it during the height of WoW’s popularity in WotLK.

Solafina-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 12:32am

It’s from a quest in Vesper Bay, from this lady.

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Swyrgeim

Karmas-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 12:33am

It’s in a town called Vesper bay in Western Thanalan(out the gate of sultana), and past Horizon. Someone asks you for orange juice(which you can buy from the mender ten feet away) and then they’re like BAM you can do colors and glamours and what have you.

Also lol Hail bracktan.

Levington-moon-guard · February 16, 2019, 12:39am

That’s unfortunate, I was considering getting into ESO.

Dominitari-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 12:51am

Sig other was all sorts of upset about that one, too. Ythsiens was his favorite CM. Sucks that the most popular ones, the ones that actually do their jobs well, are the ones that get canned first. It’s BS.

Azhaarder-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 1:00am

Hah, found it.

So a core game feature is hidden behind a miscellaneous quest in a random tiny town in a distant desert zone. That’s an…interesting design philosophy right there.

Karmas-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 1:01am

If it makes you feel better the tiny town is not random, you will go there a lot. Also. Condolences. You will go there a lot.

Azhaarder-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 1:03am

That little pothole? Really? Well okay.

I’m having fun in FF14 but I’m actually toying with jumping for ESO. I appreciate FF for letting me play for free for a while, but they really make you jump through hoops to actually buy the game. If I’m gonna be out $20 either way for the full version of a new game I’m more tempted by the one with no subscription fee. The big downside, of course, is ESO has no trial so I have zero idea what I’d be getting myself in for.

Gameplay wise, how does it compare to Skyrim? That’s my only familiarity with the Elder Scrolls series.

Mellee-moon-guard · February 16, 2019, 1:04am

I saw two people make it to second on an abandoned island with no mobs/quests/reason for me to be there. I felt kind of embarrassed, like they tried to keep out of my way but here I was intruding on them.