Posted: 26 July 2006 at 10:51pm | IP Logged

I have to say RP, though i also spend a fair amount of time crafting, and crafting is what brought me here in the first place.  Even when in a party just shooting the ***, I'll often lapse into Twahspeak, as after about a year of living in the character, it's sometimes second nature.

Fortunately I haven't yet had to worry about screaming "I be DROW!" at the top of my lungs when dealing with mundane real life things.  Notice the operative word "yet".

Posted: 27 July 2006 at 8:35pm | IP Logged

I have days where I want to level up my character, and then i have days i just want to hang with friends and chat...sometimes when im bored i sign on cause the community is great here...

Other times i have a need for crafting, so a lil bit of everything!

~Drache

Posted: 30 July 2006 at 9:20am | IP Logged

I voted for dungeon romping.  Its probably what I do most, but I enjoy just about everything listed.  I do like leveling fast, I also like collecting Uberloot a good bit.  I very much like giong places with friends and just sitting around and chatting.  I like RP but I tend to get the feeling people don't like the way I RP.  I also like PvP but I tend to lay off it because I don't like shouting matches or several foul/angry tells.

Can't say I ever thought about making words with potions on the ground, but perhaps that'll soon be my new favorite

Posted: 30 July 2006 at 2:14pm | IP Logged

To answer you statement Doomie I guess one would have to define RP.  See, when I am in a party be it in the same area or across the world much of what we are talking about refers to Torr.  So, if someone asks for advice or wants some item fixed that is RP.  Just because we are not using a dialect or some such thing does not mean it isn't RP. 

To compare I have been playing World of Warcraft lately.  Yea, I buckled and joined the legions of people who pay for fun but I needed a break from Torr for reasons I stated earlier.  The comparison comes in that I solo FAR FAR more in WoW than I ever did on Torr and RP... well that is almost unheard of on the server I am on.  Torr has far more RP even with people in parties but spread out across the world.

Posted: 30 July 2006 at 3:53pm | IP Logged

As for a role playing server, I understand groups like HoB RP a lot here, but I still see a very huge difference between RP on torr and RP on other servers. Why? Because the majority of torr is centered around powergaming and as phelix put it, dungeon romping. Plus, whenever a PvP situation erupts, people tend to always take it out of RP. Party chat is not RP, neither is tells. Sure you can write stuff like *someone whispers behind you...* in a tell, that's RP....but i see barely of that happening.

Sure people RP here a lot, but i think the main focus of the majority of torr has been leveling up and dungeon romping.

I think about 95% of paladins and monks (dragrin an exclusion) on torr don't play their characters right (yes that is according to my opinion so it may not mean much). They see an exile and automatically attack, not saying a word. That's RP? BS. That's called hardcore pvp with no RP between the two players. Lawful good doesn't mean you automatically attack exiles, it means you uphold the law and are rightous and fair, and that you fight on fair terms, rather then just auto-attack.

But like i stated, it's only my opinion of RP after all.

~Drache

Posted: 30 July 2006 at 3:55pm | IP Logged

Dang it, for some reason I can't edit my posts...

I wanted to add in that another possible reason why a lot of people RP a lot more these days is because they are higher levels and don't have an urge much more. I noticed that when I hit 19 with Frinn and could take on pretty much anything at the time. I started focusing on other stuff at the time, rather then powergaming. I've had my fun powergaming and as a sorc, but in the end i got sick of doing the same stuff over and over again..so i retired and started chatting a lot more...

I gaurentee you if you were to take a poll about a year back, the majority of people would say dungeon romping...

~Drache

Posted: 30 July 2006 at 4:39pm | IP Logged

For some of the forums, like this one and the Update Forums, you actually can, but there's a trick to it.  I had to use a trick to quote you above.

Copy the contents of your earlier post, and then click Edit.  You'll see a blank screen.  Paste in the old text and add your new comments.

Posted: 30 July 2006 at 5:25pm | IP Logged

I do RP most of the time when I am on Torr. Some do and some don't. When adventuring, in PvP, I try to RP aswell. Granted there are situations where I haven't been the perfect player and haven't been able to stay in character - we are all human. Some seem to be looking for anyone to just remotely make a mistake, just in order to hang them. Tension like this I haven't seen on any server. EDIT - Not to mention the grudges people tend to have with eachother, sheesh there are a lot of elephants outthere!!!

I used to come to Torr for the loads of fun I have had with loads of people RPing. One thing though, IF you don't look for RP you wont find it. Yes, a lot of those I used to have bundles of fun RPing with have left, and yes I haven't been actively playing like I used to.

I have seen a lot of tension and a lot of frustration, which left me kinda cold as far as Torr goes. I have asked myself one thing - do I want to spend my time on a server where so many are either trying to make others miserable or are miserable themselves? I have been verbally hung more than once for asking simple questions, because the ones I chose to ask were frustrated about something I had no influence on. I have been called anything from standoffish to exploiter, well worse than that, but I'll keep this clean. I can live with being called things and the loads of times people asume that I do this and that, but I really can't handle all the frustation.

Seeing others get so wound up or sad about a game, well I tend to worry too much, so I stuck my tail behind my legs and pop in now and again to see what's shaking.

I really do miss Torr, I miss the hour long talks(RP) with some of you, I miss the grand scaled adventures. Buuuut anger and frustration took that away, perhaps I am overreacting, I sure hope I am...

-Keash

Posted: 31 July 2006 at 1:34am | IP Logged

Although I do agree with you that if you don't look for RP, you won't find it...an example i might present here is Spike. Throughout the entire history of this character he has been grieved numerous times...to the point where he eventually started holding grudges towards people. He looked for RP, but in the broad spectrum of things, I think he didn't find much...not nearly as much as he could find possibly on other servers.

I won't mention names, but even though he acted everything in RP on the server (except for some serious out of RP comments against some people that i know about) many did not take his RP very...kindly. Now I can understand where a certain group of players might have disliked him, but the way the settled their differences with them was in terms of out of rp...

Now I don't like to talk for spike, but I do miss him, and I am guessing he is one of the ones you say you miss from the old days of torr keash, but lets face it...with multi-accounts running around and so much deception on this server, who knows whether the 'new player' is just another remake of another?

I am sorry but a lot of the grudges/hatred amongst people sparked as soon as multi-accounts started. These same people ask themselves why it would do such a thing, but in reality, I find it ignorant. Not only are you decieving your so called 'friends' with another account, but your cheating dread's system and the other players. I don't care what you claim you can do with two seperate accounts (1 exile, 1 freelander, not carrying information over), it just doesn't work. People know me for having a problem with multicounts in general, but I REALLY have a problem with multicounts that have one exile, one freelander.

The best part of Torr I always found was the ability to do anything. It felt very much like playing a MMORPG, and that's actually what drew me to the server...but like almost all MMORPGs, RP is not its main focus...I already suggested a long time ago that dread appoint GM's or give certain players an item that allows them to do stuff that normal players cannot--such as make burning corpses, or corpses in general, possibly give items as rewards on GM led quests, make things LESS SCRIPTED on the server...I understand dread when he's very protective of his work, but when everything on this server is scripted, it leaves it very hard to RP with a non-changing world...the only thing changing in it right now are merchants stores and who owns what mansion/house and who's an exile/whos not...

On other servers GMs/DMs drastically change the plot lines everyday. Such as, kingdoms declaring war upon other kingdoms, or massive raids that leave a city in ruin for weeks, or a giant evil (yet again something not scripted) that has come to plague a city that a group of heroes must solve...It's my opinion, but I find it very hard to RP in a scripted world...one that revolves always around the same quests, and the same world.

~Drache

Posted: 07 August 2006 at 10:14pm | IP Logged

RP still occurs through Shouts, though some people do not consider that to be proper RP.  Twah still does her war cry Shouts, we had someone recently lay claim to the throne of one of the cities, and the usual horsing around and wordplay still continues.   Exile raids on towns still occur, a few nights ago we had an engagement that lasted nearly 2 hours.  I can't speak for the Freeland cities, but at Kalmoor and Doomsha, RP situations between individual players still occurs at about the same level.  If there's any depression and boredom in Torr, it's a pretty sure bet it doesn't have anything to do with any particular individual being banned.

Posted: 07 August 2006 at 10:53pm | IP Logged

It doesn't help when you got players who want to PvM, and players who want to PvP mixed into the whole bunch.

Derius, Gle, Pravus, Percivus, Ender, and other such players are just examples of hardcore pvpers. Even if you only wish to play on torr for YOUR reasons, others always get in your way. Take spike for example, he used to be a hardcore crafter---damn his shop was nice---but then thieves came into the mix and since we are a 'sandlot' server, they have a right to make spike's job difficult...which gets spike tee'd off at thieves...

It's just one of the many problems...that and the fact that there's a lot of multi-accounts and post-banned players playing on the server despite what dread had in mind.

~Drache

Posted: 20 August 2006 at 10:32pm | IP Logged

There's no option for "Crafting".  I like the crafting of the server (mining, crafting, farming, etc.).

WHERE'S THE OPTION FOR CRAFTING???