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Forums  > General  > General  > A couple of questions     Display using: Flat View Threaded View   Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Thread :: Next Thread   Author  Thread: A couple of questions  revvy Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Total Posts: 6 Send PM   A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 01:33 PM Im not sure if this is the correct place to post this,so ill say sorry now if it is....Sorry :) Anyway,the purpose of this post is just to find out a few things Firstly i am toally new to RP'ing,taking on the persona of a charachter and being that charachter is not something ive tried before.So you can guess that what im asking is,will i be welcome to come along and check vives out? Ive tried a couple of other pw's but found them to be either not what i want or to structured so that its unplayable. At this moment in time,i have plenty of time on my hands due to having to go in and out of hospital a lot. ive checked the screenies and like what i see and will d/l the haks later and sometime withing the next few days connect and see what i shall see.  DiabloStan Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Total Posts: 653 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 01:40 PM Hello, welcome, I hope you can really find your place here. Vives is exclusively a role-playing server. There is some non-character chat between players through tells, but anything you should ever say should be considered something your character is saying. On one hand, you don't want to be talking about the Matrix, but on the other, walking around yelling I WANT A BROADSWORD!!!!111ONE isn't going to make you any friends either. Try and put some emphasis on spelling and punctuation. I know you know how to do it, now's the time to get in some practice. As far as being brand new to it, think of yourself as an improvisational actor in a play. Let's say that you're Lawrence Martin, the noble Knight, and you wander around looking for evil to slay in the name of your noble cause. Act it out, play the part as though you had an audience. React to things in the game as if they were actually scripted. If you need some help starting out, the best tip I can give you is get out there and meet EVERYONE. Run into everybody you can and talk to them and learn from them, pick up their habits and build off their ideas. You might take some time to get acclimated but you might like it. Welcome again. - [Rob], Balthor, Jake, and Thomas.  Tasra www.bgmod.com Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 1364 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 01:44 PM Well, if you've never RP'd before, you might feel a little out of sync at first. A few tips I might point out, from mistakes I made when I first started: Don't greet a new person by name. Learn it first, just because it's floating over their heads, doesn't mean you know it. (( )) is usually designated as OOC (OOC being Out of Character). * * is some sort of action, such as *kicks* I'm not sure what else to add off hand, but there you have it.  Shanara Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Total Posts: 127 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 01:55 PM Vives was the very first time I rped. I can say for a fact you will be welcomed and don't worry about making mistakes. We all started out new. If you get out there and meet people and watch other players you'll pick it up and it won't be long before you'll develop your own style of rping. Of course my characters always take me over. *grumbles something about characters not behaving and doing what they're suppose to do* Also, don't be afraid to ask other players if you have questions. Just be sure to do it in tells. Shalee Windwalker.....wife of Chandler, Ranger, Cleric of Elbereth Alianda - Change can happen. Lara - half-elven Ranger, trying to reshape her life Tia - Cleric of Vilyave "Delicious Ambiguity"  Sheikh Ferox Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Total Posts: 71 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 02:03 PM Vives was my very first experience with RP, as well. Just to second what the above said, just act IC (the best you can, it'll go much easier with practice... noone is asking for Shakespeare right out of the gate) and players, were (to me) and will be (to you) -very- welcoming. So, along those lines, welcome! Perhaps I'll see you in-game soon. Sheikh Malakhi Aquistine Erick Whitestone  time4bed Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Total Posts: 320 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 02:05 PM I would suggest you dont try anything to radical at first either . Your dream CHR. can perhaps wait whilst you get used to things . I found that playing a dwarf or half orc fighter to start with means that you wont be killed very often. Also you wont be expected to type eloqent knowledgable sentences really quickly (as perhaps an elf mage would speak). Its not really what we're looking for , but, a Half orc head smasher would often just grunt or *scratch his head*. And basicly you will learn how to be a good RPer by just being around the superb collection of players we have here. Then you can become the Elf sorcerer with a disturbing past, a split personallity and a talking familiar called Quaxiloctry that suckles at your third nipple. Dont feel intimidated and get stuck in Look forward to meating you. :) If you catch a butterfly. You can either keep it and watch it die. Or let it go and watch it fly away.  JoheJaxon sixby9.net Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Total Posts: 477 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 02:08 PM one suggestion I would make is to make your first character a lot like you personality wise, it makes rp'ing easier to start, and can be a lot of fun. once you get the basics down then start to build on that. Doing it that way has been a blast for johe and meand yes Shanara's right once you let it happen they DO take overThen it gets really easy you just have to hang on for the ride ;)  Uncleboffo Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Total Posts: 149 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 04:05 PM What might help also is if we held a Vives101 session for any new players to get the feel and meet everyone. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~Robin Williams  time4bed Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Total Posts: 320 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 04:25 PM Or an evening where you're not allowed on unless its with a lev 5 or below chr. Advertise it on the Vault , as a great opportunity to enter the premier server that vives is. Better still , why set aside a whole real life week for under lev 5 chrs.. it would be a great opportunity to establish some life long relationships with the new glut of low lev chrs.. And i reckon it would atract new players also.. If you catch a butterfly. You can either keep it and watch it die. Or let it go and watch it fly away.  Tasra www.bgmod.com Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 1364 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 06:05 PM While I myself wouldn't mind something along those lines, where would your >5 level characters be that feel like playing during the week?  time4bed Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Total Posts: 320 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 07:03 PM well , just start a new chr... consider it a vault wipe for a week... *shrugs* If you catch a butterfly. You can either keep it and watch it die. Or let it go and watch it fly away.  pdwalker Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Total Posts: 5692 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 25 Jul 2005 11:43 PM heh heh, he said vault wipe heh heh. Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly. -- "...Cause he mixes it with love And makes the world taste good." -- <@James42> Lawful good isn't in your vocabulary, it's on your menu.  revvy Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Total Posts: 6 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 26 Jul 2005 08:59 AM just finished d/l n installin haks. One other question afore i go have a quick look...is there a specific time of day that i should be around to benefit?as im from uk sometimes may not be possible for me,but others would.  bennyhsrh Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Total Posts: 773 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 26 Jul 2005 09:16 AM Doesn't really matter what time you're on, server is up 24/7. That said, unfortunately UK time, during the day especially, is one area where we do not have many logging on apart from weekends, evenings and nights are usually OK once US players start being up and around. Though it does vary, some days are obviously better than others. Probably the message is log on whenever you feel like it. The number of people around to interact with will vary though. Elvalia - Chosen of Aros Elrith Mellin Perin - 'Cleric (an' drewid) o' Elbreff' Weddin's an' pies a speciarality  revvy Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Total Posts: 6 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 27 Jul 2005 11:34 AM Ok ive been trundleing around vives for a short while now,mostly when no one is around. I thought it best that i register a charachter,so went ahead and clicked the link. One thing that confused me from the start was NWN login...is that the login i use for the nwn website or the one i use for loggin into the MP side?? no more questions i promise...well for a short while at least :)  bennyhsrh Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Total Posts: 773 Send PM   Re: A couple of questions Posted: 27 Jul 2005 11:48 AM Whatever login you use for the NWN MP side of things is entirely up to you, we will pick up who you are as your playing account is linked to the CD Key of your game. You do not by any means have to have a logon name which matches your forum name and are free if you like to have more than one NWN login, entirely up to you. More than one player here logs in on more than one account. The only restriction is on whether the player name has been used already in which case NWN will tell you. Elvalia - Chosen of Aros Elrith Mellin Perin - 'Cleric (an' drewid) o' Elbreff' Weddin's an' pies a speciarality  renter6 Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Total Posts: 684 Send PM   Good guide to NWN RP from NW connections Posted: 27 Jul 2005 04:58 PM Many replies to this question already, but Neverwinter Connections has a really nice .pdf available online with some tips for roleplaying on servers like this one. I found it through someone's helpful posting on the Vives forums in the first place--it was introduced in 2003 and a couple threads on these forums referred to it in that year. The link is here as well as below: http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/other/data/1054180720258.shtml Its a twenty page guide with a lot of basics that are conventional to Vives, as well as some more novel stuff to try while playing. Its a purdy little .pdf to boot. I learned from it. EDIT: I fixed the link to take you to the free download of this .pdf. You can also access it by clicking a button marked "Role-Player's Guide" on the frontpage of Neverwinter Connections. "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about dying." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever." -Burt Reynolds, "The End" Previous Thread :: Next Thread  Page 1 of 1   Forums  > General  > General  > A couple of questions