User blog comment:Faeyrin/A question of common sense./@comment-4536066-20131024050917/@comment-25159376-20131024134514

"It's not a rule; it's a suggestion put there to encourage awareness and maturity."

I don't think commoners who consider W42 their homeworld should be exempt from the maturity of using different designated worlds to make everyone's life easier. It's like when I see someone advertising for a party in Daemonheim in W42. I think, "Well maybe you'd have better luck if you went to the designated world for that, huh?"

' "However, if I  always  sung  every time  I had to draw, I would probably never draw because the singing would become an obligatory chore; it would even become strenuous and tiresome after too long. The same is true of being in-character  all the time'' ." '''

I'm definitely not saying you have to go about actual gameplay when you roleplay. I'm saying that the majority are probably missing out on some fun when they don't. That said, they're more than welcome to only roleplay. It's just that, when I find someone familiar who is skilling and I walk up under the notion we're I.C, they're all like "Lol why are you I.C?"...but I believe the much better question is, "Why aren't YOU I.C?"

'" It's not that I don't think I can rp and skill at the same time - I've done it before. I just usually don't  want''  to do it." '''

Fair enough. As said above, you don't have to.

" Half of the RPing I do is not planned, but rather, is a spur-of-the-moment decision that results from me happening across rp already going on or other ooc RPers who tell me they want to play. " 

Alright, you got me there. I'll admit, happening across some RP in progress does happen a lot. I see where you're coming from. However, it mostly happens when I myself am going about normal game play whilst I.C, and not just walking around O.O.C'ly. But as for your friends telling you what they want to do...! Well, that's what the four other chat channels are for. I'm pretty sure your friends can convey to you they want to RP somewhere through private chat, friends chat, clan chat, or guest clan chat.

'''" That's the other reason why I don't switch worlds, and also the reason I sometimes loiter around hotspots; the community, both IC and OOC is logged into 42." '''

Well that's just what I'm trying to change, yo. The community's default mode of interaction should be I.C.

'''" Sure, I could send PMs or use a FC/CC, but that limits me only to people on my lists who happen to be available, have something to say, and active at the moment. Usually when I'm loitering in-game, I'm actually doing something else as well, whether it's surfing the web or hand-sewing a new shirt. If I'm hanging around a bunch of fellow RPers and they bring up something I want to join in talking about, I'm way more likely to get a little conversation than if I sit in a dark corner of the game and wait for a PM." '''

You see, the reason why the various chat channels don't work now is because they've never been fully taken advantage of. Think of it like this;

Imagine all the RP in Runescape was actually on some good old classic I.R.C server and abided by the common rules of RP servers in I.R.C (oh, if youve never used an irc server...get outtaaa heeerreeee). Let's say the Canifis Inn is it's own chat channel. Strictly, no OOC chatter goes there save for the occasional parenthesised comment. The area outside the inn where people like to chill? That's the OOC channel counterpart to the IC channel. All OOC chatter goes there.

Obviously you can equate that to how it'd really go. RP in the inn, OOC chatter that would normally be outside goes in an FC/CC.

1. People like you can do what they do in the lobby and not miss a beat. You're talking to anyone you want.

2. It'd clean up OOC chatter in general.

3. No one will be randomly loitering en masse some places and the premise of an 'always I.C' world can function a lot better with that remedied. Or at the least, it'd clean stuff up in general.

4. If the community worked together and cooperated, we could even have a server wide in general OOC chatter FC, and people would break off into the other designated area specific OOC channels if it tickles their fancy.

And obviously, for any RP that's private/more isolated, your RP group can break off into it's own FC of someone who is there with you.

The only thing my solutions don't account for is, I believe, simply wanting watch an RP and nothing else. Understandable. Maybe people who are doing that can be wearing, uh...only pink robes. I dunno.