Finding balance when roleplaying characters.

[Viscaria]

 

Yin Yang are two halves that, together, represent a whole.

When you divide something into Yin and Yang, it upsets the balance and equilibrium of wholeness. That is why it is believed that both halves chase one another to seek a new balance.

[Ketamine Kowboy]

"Illegal RP" is dependent on "civilian" RP, and dividing these two into categories is an old and dated trend. 

[AlphaBatal]

56 minutes ago, Свето said:

"Illegal RP" is dependent on "civilian" RP, and dividing these two into categories is an old and dated trend. 

Unironically this. Your character needs layers. Nobody cares about their tough childhood, shoehorned hardships or crippling blow addiction, if your character doesn't and can't go to a store for a pack of cigarettes without trying to rob it or get in a fight, you need to reevaluate said character. Contrary to that, if your character is a straight edge square and sodomite, you should also reevaluate.

 

 

What I'm saying is, servers that focus on LEO or criminal roleplay always smell. There's always this issue, and it affects the community playing in an adverse way. And that focus removes people wanting to roleplay normal characters. The greys, the non-cops and non-criminals, the folk that make the server feel alive, the folk cops protect and criminals make their money providing services/taking from. And when there's nothing engaging in being normal, people either pick a side or close of in a clique and instead supplement the server's lack of attentive incentive with scripts; houses, cars, items.

 

 

Nobody should care bout cops and robbers, focus on civilians. Both sides have had their spotlight and the actual interesting people that create the unique concepts get bogged down in the pointlessly bureaucratic, slow systems of the server that were created to cater to the two aforementioned sides.

 

[Kuma]

16 hours ago, AlphaBatal said:

Unironically this. Your character needs layers. Nobody cares about their tough childhood, shoehorned hardships or crippling blow addiction, if your character doesn't and can't go to a store for a pack of cigarettes without trying to rob it or get in a fight, you need to reevaluate said character. Contrary to that, if your character is a straight edge square and sodomite, you should also reevaluate.

 

 

What I'm saying is, servers that focus on LEO or criminal roleplay always smell. There's always this issue, and it affects the community playing in an adverse way. And that focus removes people wanting to roleplay normal characters. The greys, the non-cops and non-criminals, the folk that make the server feel alive, the folk cops protect and criminals make their money providing services/taking from. And when there's nothing engaging in being normal, people either pick a side or close of in a clique and instead supplement the server's lack of attentive incentive with scripts; houses, cars, items.

 

 

Nobody should care bout cops and robbers, focus on civilians. Both sides have had their spotlight and the actual interesting people that create the unique concepts get bogged down in the pointlessly bureaucratic, slow systems of the server that were created to cater to the two aforementioned sides.

 

This, along with everyone who commented the same  before. People irl ? There is no black and white it's a bunch of greys, and if you can't balance that you don't seem human. I've never had a character that's explicitly legal or illegal, they often balance that line and brings a certain realism to said character. Also you cant be a thug 24/7, you gotta have something else to do the same way you can't be a store clerk 24/7. I mean...People are happy, in their 250-500K cars, but roleplay having all these mental issues but yet not a single one of them uses drugs? Ha.

[Wuhtah]

Going to L&A this as it's been inactive for awhile. Please PM me if you want it back!