[ Important? ] Building a better AD

[Krar-argent-dawn]

@Hounds-argent-dawn

I’ve only heard negatively of you.

Do you legit believe everything you “hear” without any evidence presented? If there was evidence I will say ok, nice. If you only “heard it” it’s pretty useless.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

Argent Dawn is full of tourists and people who prefer to be on a realm that feels alive.

Pure PvE realms do too.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

Likewise, it’s actually rare to bump into erotic TRPs outside leveling alts and Goldshire/Silvermoon. Can’t do much more than report them and move on.

… What? Are you new on AD or do you only casually roleplay 1 time in 6 months?
The amount of lustful 15+ I’ve seen daily is out of this world.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

My major gripe with RP on an RP realm is that it’s already heavily opt-in based. You need an addon, you need to fill it out, you need to do it properly, and the above suggestions only further add a way to be “in the know” to be considered valid.

Oh no. You need to invest 5 seconds to download an addon, put a RP name into that profile and then maybe read the major rules of roleplay. Which boils down to “stay in character and don’t use xD”. Is 15 minutes at max really that much of a time investment? If so, I am worried for the intelligence of the average player.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

Building on that: Do names really matter?

For me they don’t, if the person is roleplaying.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

There really is no way to better the RP community of AD outside the opt-in of using RP addons. It’ll only make it all the more difficult to get into.

5 seconds to install an addon. 1 minutes to read what the addon does. Yes… If that is considered difficult then I really do not know what to say.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

An RP realm has never meant more to me than acting in-character while having given your character’s backstory a thought, not having to read 20 pages on policies and ticking 5 addon boxes to be considered a worthwhile RPer.

Ah yes, the player with the mammoth, the tauren toy spaming the N word while writing “Xd” is completely in character. I see.

@Hounds-argent-dawn

Surround yourself with the right people who motivate the proper behavior and you can’t do much more without basically gatekeeping as hard as the elitists we keep finding threads about.

This has to be bait, it just has to be. There is no way you mean this.

Ok, let me put it in simple language:

If installing addon is hard
->
Please think of doing elementary school again.

Thank you.

[Hankson-argent-dawn (Hankson)]

So I get to pay Blizzard a monthly fee while also doing their job for them? Not only should parents be mindful of what their kids get up to on the internet they should also be mindful of all the pseudo moralism going on in this thread

[Tehya-wildhammer]

are you okay buddy

[Dorlas-magtheridon (Dorlas)]

@Hankson-argent-dawn

Not only should parents be mindful of what their kids get up to on the internet

You mean like making sure the games they play are age appropriate? For example WoW that is 12+, so obviously it´s fine for their 12+ kids to play it?

[Krar-argent-dawn]

@Hankson-argent-dawn

So I get to pay Blizzard a monthly fee while also doing their job for them?

W h a t ?

@Hankson-argent-dawn

Not only should parents be mindful of what their kids get up to on the internet

I can completely agree up to this point. Parents should tell their children that “hey, there are weird people on the internet, don’t pay attention to them. They have nothing good in mind, ok?”.

@Hankson-argent-dawn

they should also be mindful of all the pseudo moralism going on in this thread

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this is where you lost my support.

So essentially what you’re saying is if a parent lets their 12 year old play a game that is rated PEGI 12, it’s the parents fault for other people using that media to do weird stuff. Did I get that right?

If so:

who hurt you?

[Ranko-argent-dawn]

@Ferumlac

When you compare this to the “Report” tool where, once enough player reports trigger the review,

I wish we knew how many this was.

[Krar-argent-dawn]

@Deif-argent-dawn

Who knew that a bunch of people who haven’t a single second of experience working in technical support for any kind of online system wouldn’t know that there’s more going on in the background for GMs than the wizard magic of “Click to solve issue”?

Personally I’m shocked.

Very cool high horse post.

I do have that experience though and the way how Blizzard is handling the support tickets coming from a roleplay realm for roleplay specific problems is atrocious.

What exactly is stopping them having one or two gamemasters just for roleplay realm specific issues?

Oh right. Nothing other than greed. Which they can be very well criticized for.

Same for one gamemaster stating “nothing we can do” and another stating “yea, report it” is also very bad. So I don’t know what your post is about other than high horsery.

[Kaytlinne-argent-dawn (Kaytlinne)]

@Ranko-argent-dawn

@Ferumlac

When you compare this to the “Report” tool where, once enough player reports trigger the review,

I wish we knew how many this was.

Regardless, I think the info given is fair enough. AND it’s an incentive that, if people want change, rather than just kvetching about it, something can be DONE about it. Be the change we want to see.
Heck, that’s basically the thread title, isn’t it?

[Marvaesh-argent-dawn]

@Krar-argent-dawn

What exactly is stopping them having one or two gamemasters just for roleplay realm specific issues?

Can you imagine handling all the issues on this realm just by yourself or with a single other person for it? I’m all for keeping our precious realm clean but man I’d lose my hairline

[Tehya-wildhammer]

I think it would be really easy if problems ever actually got solved. Most of the issues are just years old festering nothings

[Marvaesh-argent-dawn]

Yeah that is fair enough.

[Krar-argent-dawn]

@Marvaesh-argent-dawn

Can you imagine handling all the issues on this realm just by yourself or with a single other person for it? I’m all for keeping our precious realm clean but man I’d lose my hairline

I mean eh…

Swooping in to GS to ban every profile with any sexual words in them would take an hour tops. Words would spread very quickly that they actively ban inappropriate profiles.

Roleplay drama would not be included, they would just exist to ban inappropriate behavior (such as trolling etc).

If we do include rp drama: give those GMs a golden Bobby yacht.

[Tehya-wildhammer]

@Zagkush-argent-dawn

that might Just seem foolish but, what if instances like raids, dungs and quests were removed from rp servers?

foolish is an understatement

you forget that RPers also do content

twiluna-tier post ngl

[Sainur-argent-dawn (Sainur)]

@Zagkush-argent-dawn

what if instances like raids, dungs and quests were removed from rp servers?

I would stop playing the game

[Zagkush-argent-dawn]

Alright, fair enough, would be pretty dumb, sorry I ever brought it up.

[Coldsháde-argent-dawn (Coldsháde)]

With that being said, I would love a RP mode for all instances that automatically clears them of all mobs and lets you enter each of them in a group of up to 40 even when it’s just a dungeon. Would be neat for events.

[Tehya-wildhammer]

or even better, they could remove the wacky kick timer thing that’s on the open world versions of the wet nerd temple and the druid emo dungeon and a few other places.

[Ranko-argent-dawn]

What are these places actually called?

Having an RP mode for dungeons that increases capacity and gets rid of mobs would be cool though.
Do some things in Mechagon or Waycrest.

[Tehya-wildhammer]

@Ranko-argent-dawn

What are these places actually called?

don’t put me on the spot like that man i don’t know i forgot

it’s the nightmare dungeon in valsharah and the tidesage dungeon in stormsong

[Vixí-argent-dawn (Vixí)]

@Tehya-wildhammer

and the tidesage dungeon in stormsong

This one they really went overboard with it too, since I’ve been kicked on the flight-path leading to sometimes. The area is bigger than the actual dungeon-zone(for no valid reason) and only like 2-3 seconds of reaction time.