RP Island and stuff?

[Aloysius]

Right,

Some things have been confusing me so hopefully I can get them cleared up here.

A while back, maybe a year or two, I read about some RP lands of sorts located in T2a Trammel. The concept puzzled me a bit. Then more recently, I read about an RP island with teleporters, except then read about RP island being somehow blocked out or something. What the hell is that rp island thing, and what's its status actually?

Actually, can someone enlighten me as to the special devices like those mentioned above put in place by the server staff to support/encourage/help roleplayers?

Also in general, how supportive is Hybrid staff of player community-oriented initiatives (rp or not), and if any, to what scale?

For instance I build that tavern or RP town that is a big success, and a lasting structure, providing an enhancement of sorts to the shard. Would staff turn up at any point and maybe make one of the typical "blessings" like on OSI shards, such as placing some distinctive decoration element or even a stable to acknowledge the community contribution?

Other example, I run a scenario. Really gets people interested and busy. Intrigue, fighting, gossip... keeps the place buzzing and active for a bunch of weeks straight. Would staff just sit on ass letting it slide, or actually get involved at some point to support the whole thing, for instance spawning monsters for some scenario episode, or bringing animation of any sort?

Thanks in advance for the responses you can provide to all the questions above.

[plague_spores]

As an rper I take offense to your post. You obviously are one who sits back and watches the rp community but does not take part of and then questions staff involvement.

RP lands in T2A (Imbus) was a long time ago, it was shut down because it was too large of an area for so few rpers. You heard about this but made no attempt at that point to investigate it.

RP Island being blocked you obviously are talking about the good/evil rp island, aka Eronia. First evil island was blocked off and all good and evil guilds were relocated to the one island to bring them all in one place. Finally good island was shut down because no one wanted to leave their precious homes in Yew and such.
You read about this but made no attempt to see what it was all about.

Finally rp island with teleporters which exists now.
Connects rp guilds to a single small island. The idea of bringing the guild locations to the island was scrapped. In its place the idea of providing easy access from major guild locations to the island via tunnels and words of power.

Good guilds speak words of power at various town locations which teleport them to the inside of the rp town on the rp island.

Evil guilds have tunnels which take them to the outside of the town on the RP island.

No one will just give you the locations of the tunnels/teleporters because part of being an rper is roleplaying, go out there explore role play with others and you are bound to come across it.



Staff involvement. No staffer will just give something to you because you ask for it. Publicly asking for something like you did in your post is a sure way not to get anything. It doesnt matter if you are speaking of doing something first before obtaining the staff help.

[plague_spores]

If you are serious about Role Playing. Create a guild or role playing experience. Keep it consistent do not do it once and then expect acknowledgment. After you have been doing it for awhile and you are creating a positive rp experience for many people over and over again is the point in time when you might be looked at kindly by staff. Not Before.

[Aloysius]

I'd like to thank you for the elements of response you still brought yourself to deliver amidst that whole package of slandering and accusation. Now it might be time for you to consider stepping out of your perspective for a minute and realizing that what you deem right about the way things should be done about virtual gaming experiences (or anything else for that matter) might not be a universal rule. That for many reasons, at least half of them good and legitimate, people going about certain things a different way than the one you deem proper might have a valid honest point in the first place.

It might also be helpful and healthy not to consider examples, such as the ones I've taken in my original post, as literal situations. The only thing I was actually asking for in that post of mine was general answers as to things pertaining to the Hybrid server, in order to make an educated choice as to how to go about my future experience of it. I guess somehow you thought I was acting like that new guy who drops by like "Hey hey I'm special, shortcut me to management cause I have a graaaaaaaaaaaand idea that is so awesome I really need to find a management cool enough to support it"? So at the result of one quick assumption of yours, I should walk out of that being labeled, by you, a kind of gimmie gimmie bastard who's only out to crave recognition and official support, feeling wrong and shamed, and righteously so? This doesn't cut it.

I'm ready to blindly admit that the things we do can always be done better, so in that sense maybe I could have voiced my questions with a subtler accent and softer tone. But that still doesn't solve the problem of you assuming like mad and going ape like this.

Talk about being made to feel welcome.

Next time, if really there's a sense of doubt as to what the person's actually asking, how about a nice and warm "Excuse me sir, but are you really asking for this and that, or would you rather be interested in this and that? Because you see, whether it's the questionable way you expressed it or my challenged intellect, well, I can't decide". A little step back in patience and benevolent listening does wonders in unclear social circumstances, especially on the internet.

Let me remind you that games, servers, and all kinds of infrastructures containing the elements of "RP community" and "staff level of involvement" exist out there on the internet by hundreds, in this day and age, and aren't made to be, each and every one, deeply prodded before the event of a decision. In this specific case, pardon me if I'm still not completely sold on Hybrid and thus am asking questions over the place to get a general sense of what kind of server it is. As a man involved in various activities and endowed with responsibilities, I can't really afford to thoroughly and in-depth test every single gaming experience out there to get a feel of every single detail that might spark my curiosity like in the end all of it was that important.

I posted earlier on the general forum about the importance of magic weapons and blacksmithing, nobody came slandering me going like "As an achiever, I take offense in your post. Gather the resources, create a blacksmith, try to make a living, create a dexer, gear up in magical gear, pvp, pve, go round the whole game mechanics, then you will know. But no instead you're just showing no interest and asking fast tracks to knowledge. I rebuke thee". Out of my experience, that kind of attitude does not really seem to come to mind other than in RP-based subjects.

Maybe it's my phrasing that stayed stuck in your throat and I made the wrong choice of words. The fact is, as a person, complete first-hand knowledge, through in-game immersion and pixelate adventure, of the shortcomings, woes and history notes regarding a virtual piece of land on a server I'm yet to really step foot in, aren't exactly where I place my priorities. Hence, I came, and figured that helpful people might answer my newcomer self, maybe kindly guide me to some kind of knowledge font. Certainly not tell me to shove off like I just commited an impious, heinous larceny worthy of nothing but wrathful contempt.

Honestly, if you have enough time and energy to deeply playtest every virtual world you'd lay your eyes upon and consider staying at for a while, and still keep course with the higher priorities of your life, hats off to you, and I'd even envy you to an extent cause you would be admirable. The thing is, right now you're not: as my first encounter with a specimen of roleplayer on this server, you didn't really do a good job in coming across as anything other than the self-engrossed, pretentious, elitist sort who seem to believe that what they're a part of should be held in the utmost respect and went at in the most scrupulous dedication to a certain canon way. Believe it or not, in my time I've seen enough of that lot not to give much stock to their worldview. However, you're probably actuall a very decent guy and we both got each other wrong in a typical internet misunderstanding, and the illness will come to pass and we'll get to figure out the more glorious aspect of each other's personalities in the future... that's what I like to believe when things like that happen out here.

In the meantime though, and that's really what I'd like you to understand, I'm still an uncertain person, still looking for a place I could enjoy and thus to which I could give chunks of that spare time and energy I happen to have for expense, as a way to try and help along, give back and contribute to building something. I happen upon Hybrid like I've happened upon many other places before, I give it a thought, and I figure asking on forums might be a good way to get acquainted with the locals too. Would you say some disgusting bastardry of parasiting corrosiveness motivates my endeavour here?

Your assumptions as to what kind of roleplayer I could be are not laughable only because of their gratuitousness, but also because the spectacular visionary guesses they express couldn't be further from the truth. Not possibly. But the problem is, you wouldn't care to know since you're too busy assuming and dispensing judgments, rather than inquiring, yourself. But that is another topic and qualm altogether and I'd guess it doesn't seek mending on forum posts.

Now in a sort of odd way I'd like to thank you again because it's probably been five to six years I hadn't taken time to write a lengthy post on an internet forum in the middle of the night. That being said and done, I'm quite honestly looking forward to whatever other insights I can get of this server's playerbase, and of the general mindset that reigns on Hybrid, whether I learn of it on forums or in-game.

Thank you.

[plague_spores]

You will learn quickly to keep your opinions of hybrid and the forums seperate. The forums mean jack.

welcome to hybrid

kthxbye