A few things about RPG

[TheDragonOfChaos]

RPG means role playing game, yet no one really role plays. All i see now is zergers every where, and when ever i try to post a LFM that says no rushing, No one ever joins. Is this really what RPG has come down to? Rushing. I would like to know if anyone out there other then me actually role plays?

[droid327]

RPG means role playing game, yet no one really role plays. All i see now is zergers every where, and when ever i try to post a LFM that says no rushing, No one ever joins. Is this really what RPG has come down to? Rushing. I would like to know if anyone out there other then me actually role plays?

Wheres it say DDO is a MMORPG? I'd say its just a MMOG. Heck, even in PnP D&D you dont really play roles, necessarily, anymore than you do in DDO, unless you're super larpy about it The tabletop game is all about numbers - stats, die, bonuses, etc. That's all that zerging is too, crunching the numbers and maximizing things.

[Bonulino]

There are people out there who still like to go slow and role play. We are not all zergers. Some of us still believe that the journey is more important than the destination. Having said that, I have yet to find a good mechanism for non-zergers to meet other non-zergers.

[Wh070aa]

Depends.
Some dungeons are just boring to role play (also running them for20+ times tend to burn you out).
Also there are not a lot of people that are interesting to role play something with(seriously I know a guy that role plays that he has a girlfriend. Its really sad). Also insane requirements for role playing guilds (not using auction houses, running only with guild members 'n stuff), and time constraints (I am in bad timezone tho).
+The problems with voice chat, and regular chat(hard to check typos, and the chat server times out a lot).

You should join RP guild somewhere.

PUG (pick up groups) are really dead right now, as they keep making more reasons not to be in party with random people with xp bonuses for party members not dying, or not going in dungeons on wrong difficulty, or not being prepared, or rising dungeon alert to red, Elite streaks, dungeon scaling, killing off plugins, timed bonuses and so on.

Most people just check their guild, and friends list and see what they can do from there. You just gotta find couple of like minded people and you be set.

What kind of role playing are you interested in anyway? Which server you are playing on? What character levels?

Go look taught the guild forums, and find something you like. That's all I can suggest you.

Also you can zerg and role play at same time. There are plenty of things you can do.

[axel15810]

RPG means role playing game, yet no one really role plays. All i see now is zergers every where, and when ever i try to post a LFM that says no rushing, No one ever joins. Is this really what RPG has come down to? Rushing. I would like to know if anyone out there other then me actually role plays?

There's some people who roleplay. I've noticed groups on Thelanis who do it.

I'd look at some of the other forums to try and get in touch with others who roleplay if that's what you want to do because it's not a common playstyle. You won't find many if any takers by putting up a random LFM for it.

Zerging is default these days, love it or hate it. At this point with so many vets in game I doubt many see it as zerging. It's just that doing the quest as efficiently as possible is the natural way to run it. Most people aren't going to purposely make themselves go slower. They want to finish the quest ASAP so they can move on to the next one.

[Chilldude]

RPG means role playing game, yet no one really role plays. All i see now is zergers every where, and when ever i try to post a LFM that says no rushing, No one ever joins. Is this really what RPG has come down to? Rushing. I would like to know if anyone out there other then me actually role plays?

When you first start playing DDO it's a MMORPG. However, do to the humongous grind required to progress, eventually anyone with any sort of desire to progress will feel significant pressure to zerg. As it stands today, even someone with MASSIVE amounts of free time to invest in the game, playing at a rate 10-20 faster than the average player is going to have a very long haul to reach maximum progression.

The problem is Turbine thinks the monumental XP grinds is the only way to keep people playing, and selling XP in the store is the only way to make money. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. The massive XP grind is a major turn off that very few are willing to undertake. The need for fast XP turns everyone in the game adversarial toward one another when the game is 100% cooperative in nature. Most importantly, since it takes years for even hard core zergers to get a single character progressed to nearly completion, the massive grind pretty much kills the ability to play alts for all but the most casual of players.

If Turbine every realizes that DDO is actually a fun game and people will play it continually simply because there are so many different things to try, they might reduce the massive grind 10 fold or so to merely a ridiculous level. Then people could come up for air a bit. Probably never happen.

[Uska]

A MMO,isn't really a good place,for,role,play the repeating of quests stupid names some people and many other thing just kill immersion a prime requirement for RP so,I just have fun here and RP during pnp play

[visibleman]

Wheres it say DDO is a MMORPG? I'd say its just a MMOG. Heck, even in PnP D&D you dont really play roles, necessarily, anymore than you do in DDO, unless you're super larpy about it The tabletop game is all about numbers - stats, die, bonuses, etc. That's all that zerging is too, crunching the numbers and maximizing things.

The essence of DnD is definitely "Kill Everything and Take its Stuff" not "So tell me about your childhood".

[AzB]

RPG means role playing game, yet no one really role plays. All i see now is zergers every where, and when ever i try to post a LFM that says no rushing, No one ever joins. Is this really what RPG has come down to? Rushing. I would like to know if anyone out there other then me actually role plays?

I feel your pain. When the new quests come out, they get zerged on EE first time through. I miss the feel of adventuring... being concerned about dying and wondering what's around the corner. This is what happens when you cater to video game people more than rpg people, and create quests with no randomization with the entire end game revolving around repeating those quests over and over. Human nature being what it is, the challenge becomes seeing how fast you can get it done so you can get more power ups and get it done even faster next life. There's no time for noobs, and the new players either quit or get caught up in the current and learn to keep up even if they don't contribute much sometimes.

I won't say I don't play that way at all, but I do play with a static group where we don't meta game our toons. No AH, no trading, no store, no wiki. First life toons only, and we can only use what we find. No stacks of pots and scrolls, (unless they've been looted) no ridiculously overpowered toons. It makes things more interesting, it makes us work together and it's a lot of fun.

More often than not, I'll solo higher levels. My two epic toons are perfectly capable of running anything on hard, and most anything on elite, so I can make my challenges and my speed to be whatever I want.

You can make the game whatever you want, but PUGS are going to be what they are. Anything else will take a little effort to find like minded people.