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Ello! I have been rping for about a year now on WrA and I have begun to get very sick and tired of all the very elitest and cliques that are found there.

So, I was wondering about the state of rp on CC, how most CCers (I guess thats what you would say it.) about dragon rp when done right and by lore. (since people on WrA tend to lack imagination or faith in letting people try something intresting.) And lastly, how horde rp is on your server!

Please and thank you!
Alexis Trinity.

Roll a character and join allianceooc. Send me a message in game and I will introduce you to some people and help you get started. A few years back Pia had a member who rped a dragon. He did it well and most people received it well, but there were some who griped about it. We solved that with a simple ignore.

I know at least one other person who rps a dragon and I can't think of anyone who has given him any problems.

As with most anything, it depends on how it's done. I've rolled on a few different rp servers, but I've never found one as warm as CC.

Someone mentioned on the Welcome CC thread they thought there wasn't much random walk up rp so I did an experiment with my unknown druid and posted the results. I think it took me a total of five minutes to find someone I didn't know who would rp with me.

We'd love for you to visit and at least give us a chance.

*smiles a little and says.* Boy, I might just. I have been looking for a nice rp sever like wra but smaller and more friendly. Hmm.. I shall check it out tommorow.

Now, do you have many anti rpers there? I know that with the overwhelming amount of rpers on WrA an Anti rper does not last a second out of Elywnn but I would like to know if you guys get trolled often.

Yes, RP griefers do exist. You either learn to do one of three things. Find a way to include their antics, find a way to avoid their antics, or get grumpy about it put them on ignore and wish they'd turn into a toad (to put it lightly). RPers are not the majority on this server. You'll get tons of people on general channels saying they don't exist and RP is dead on CC because of it and because the RPers here tend to find their corners to RP. It's not true. RPers do exist. They just need to be more open about what they do, and perhaps a touch more dedicated.

If you roll horde-side on this server as a dragon, you probably won't find many people willing to RP with you. Sorry, but the truth. Like WrA, we like people to play playable characters/races, not races not offered by WoW to play (like Dragons). We did have ...two or three people who played Dragons Horde-side, but eventually they left due to the fact that really no one would RP with them.


CC also doesn't have as much walk up RP as WrA. Actually... from what I've seen on WrA, we have none of what WrA. Our guilds are small (we have maybe... maybe 10 active RP guilds combined on our server, and probably about....100-150 active RPers (not including alts) combined on both sides.


And yes, we do have many griefers on our server. More so than I'd like to think about.

You know something, I pretty much give up. I can think of more than ten active rp guild on alliance side alone, but carry on. There is no rp on CC.

Actually, I can think of 16 active without checking forums.

Nothing to see here.

Oh, Gentyl, you character.

As a recent addition to CC myself with no experience of other RP realms, I can honestly say I'm pretty happy on CC. It's a heck of an improvement over PvE realms in how friendly people are.

It doesn't bother me that I only interact with maybe 20 people; they are friends now, and I occasionally reach out and poke those around me to make sure they aren't NPCs. You know what? They aren't! They just aren't in AllianceOOC for one reason or another.

I know of maybe 5 "big guilds" alliance-side, but I see quite a number of "quiet rp" guilds who seem more than happy to be off to themselves. Some have inventive names, too. I imagine that they just sort of made characters and struck off without consulting the forums to learn about our global channels.

I, personally, don't have much problem with dragons, but they are so often quiet and stoic. Someone once said that a great dragon pretends he's somebody else; why else assume a non-dragon form? That's just my opinion, anyway.

One technique I use to find other RPers is the addon My Role Play. It can detect other users with My Role Play and similar addons by mouseover, and MRP and related addons allow you to set your status. If someone is looking for contact when I run into them, I play with them, even if I'm out farming archaeology, as I often am.

Dragons will not be popular. I doubt you will find many people interested in that particular interaction. Other than that, it's a good server that makes it easy to find RP. Join the channels we use (there's a sticky!), introduce yourself, and have fun.

I spent two years on Wyrmrest Accord, from the beginning to end of Wrath of the Lich King, and had transferred there at Wrath's launch due to being unhappy with the login queues on Cenarion Circle at the time. We're one of the oldest RP realms in the game, and quite large in general population.

This brings the proportionate number of RP griefers, who are best ignored (sometimes with the slash command if they're persistent, at which point you should also report them). However, there's some solid RP.

Walk-up RP here isn't frequent, but it can be found. Your best bet is to wander into the Blue Recluse in the Mage Quarter in Stormwind; more often than not there's *something* going on there, and if there isn't at that moment, you just say in allianceOOC "I wanna RP, let's meet at the Blue Recluse", and a few people are bound to show up within 10-15 minutes.

Wyrmrest Accord, despite its urges to the contrary, wound up being very clique-ish. It was probably a result of a very concerted effort by its charter members/transfers to insure that it became a realm known for great RP first and foremost, and then dealing with being a realm that PvP realm griefers would frequently hit up with level one alts when their own realms were down. It's a smaller realm (unless it recently exploded in population), and its raid progression was slower than even CC's.

CC is on the slower side of raid progression, but it happens. There are two or three main-focus raid guilds per faction here who do well, but largely avoid the douchebaggery that can come with being a full-time raider.

The trick to playing a dragon is...

A) Don't tell everybody. If you're going to tell anyone, have a good reason for it but mostly keep it a secret.

B) Have a good reason for every action. Remember you're not actually loyal to any faction, so you might want to consider that.

C) Don't flaunt the fact that you're omfg powerful. In fact, the less power you use -- ever -- the better. Pretend you can't heal, breathe fire, etc.

But, if you do it well... people will go with it. The trick is to be mysterious, secretive, but not so much so that nobody wants to play with you and that there's no hints whatsoever to your dragon-ness. Hinting is key. (And the reason I'm posting this is not for you, I'm sure you have that down since you already said "by the lore" and "done right" but more for the nay-sayers -- a gentle reminder that it CAN be done, it's just not easy.)

Anyways, I can think of a solid ten RP guilds that are active just on Alliance-side and several more on Horde-side. They're not all large, but they are all interesting to play with.

Yeah, there's griefers but it's not overwhelming and it's pretty easy to ignore. If you keep a good attitude about it, you'll barely notice them.

The best way to find RPers on this server is definitely the global channels but if you are brave enough to try walking up to random people and RPing I would bet you'll have much better results than you see advertised elsewhere. Just go for it!

You know something, I pretty much give up. I can think of more than ten active rp guild on alliance side alone, but carry on. There is no rp on CC.

Actually, I can think of 16 active without checking forums.

Nothing to see here.

Didn't say there was no RP. Maybe my numbers were off a little bit. But still, compared to WrA, our population/number of guilds is way less. There's like..I think 4 active horde RP Guilds. Ishnu, Doctas, Homeland &...well maybe there's only 3. We have guilds that support RP (IE Razortalons, Order of the Ebon Shield, Grim Maw Clan), but they aren't specific RP Guilds. Ally side maybe has grown bigger in the past months (Haven't played on that side in a few months due to time restraints.)

Didn't say there was no RP. Maybe my numbers were off a little bit. But still, compared to WrA, our population/number of guilds is way less. There's like..I think 4 active horde RP Guilds. Ishnu, Doctas, Homeland &...well maybe there's only 3. We have guilds that support RP (IE Razortalons, Order of the Ebon Shield, Grim Maw Clan), but they aren't specific RP Guilds. Ally side maybe has grown bigger in the past months (Haven't played on that side in a few months due to time restraints.)

And <AAMS> Horde side as well. We may not be "active" by your standards, but I assure you that we are there and we are "doing things".

06/22/2011 02:12 PMPosted by Crayauchtin

The trick to playing a dragon is...

LOL, sorry i just had to do that.

You dont have to worry about me not following the lore at all and not knowing how to rp a dragon. I know all the lore, how to do it, the ways to avoid god moding and everything....
Its just no one wants to give me a chance just because i have the title of dragon rper.

I made a Belf dk just to run around horde side to see rp there, I'll prolly make a human tommorow to see it there also.

edited for grammer and stuff

>_>

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I won't make it to it, but tomorrow evening will have an event hosted by the AAMS. I'll leave you to find it on the forum, but it will be at 7:30 and I can only hope it will go well in my absence.

Forgot about AAMS. They have an active leader, but outside of that I don't really see any of their members around.

Hi. I'm the second AAMSer to post on this thread. Oh, fourth if you wanna include alts.


Come to CC, try out a concept, and if it doesn't work out, try something else. You'll want to stay after seeing how tight-knit and welcoming our actual RP community is. Like all of these other fine people have already said.



EDIT: I decided to be nice. So I removed the not nice part. Just like Gentyl did!

Araceli, given that the OP is leaving WrA.... wouldn't it make sense that maybe they're not interested in such a massive population?

And, I have to ask, what is your definition of "supports RP"? Just because a guild does other things too doesn't make them not an RP guild. If most of their members RP, if they have an IC concept for the guild, it's an RP guild. Maybe that will help with your numbers since that means that Grim Maw, Modas, Ebon Shield..... I would call those RP guilds. I don't even RP Horde-side and I'm well aware of their members and have RPed with all of them.

No, we don't have the population of WrA but if that's your complaint here's the way to fix it: instead of moaning about the flaws in our server (that there's not enough people for you) recruit more people for our server! Problem solving is not just a real life skill now!

You dont have to worry about me not following the lore at all and not knowing how to rp a dragon. I know all the lore, how to do it, the ways to avoid god moding and everything....

In that case I, at least, would definitely RP with you!

not worth it

Really? So the person I saw rping a dragon as it carried its rider was not considered viable? I thought it was well done and very creative...and yes it was on Horde side. I dont play much on horde side because of the lack of people to interact with. It just seems friendlier Alli side and more open. I have noticed a large number of people rerolling Alli side and of course that does not help the problem.

I play the game now primarily to rp, and every server seems to have its share of elite rpers. If you don't fit in with their set "rules" you are ignored, even if you try to stick to lore and interject a bit of creativity.

So you want more rpers? Or you want more people to enjoy a facet of the game they might wish to try but are afraid of criticism? Try helping them to learn how, and give them a chance to exercise their creativity. This is directed at the elitists who won't even interact with someone who is making an honest effort to try to rp. I also ignore the griefers and the obvious trolls, so I am trying to say here...give people a chance before you give up on them.

I know of another guildie who RPed as a dragon, and did fantastically. He hosted events for us and kicked off some fun storylines based on the dragon RP.

Your RP is your choice. If others don't like it, there's an awesome feature called ignore. Don't let narrow-minded folks rain on your fun. This is a game you pay for remember, so make it worth it in the way you most want to! There are other folks who want what you do and are not afraid of unusual RP. Find them!

We'd be happy to have you on either Alliance or Horde side. Hit me up--if AAMS (translating and delivery guild, at your service!) isn't your thing, I have other suggestions for guilds you may like, as well.

Also, third AAMSer. Tehehe.