[Video] 10 Possible RP Additions to the Game

TheHumanFloyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzZQ3u3qS4

Let me know what you think ZoS should add for RPers!

MornaBaine

10 Additions for Roleplayers

We're your long term customer base. Help us WANT to stay with this game. Please. Thank you.

Molag_Crow

I've never roleplayed on ESO before (Although I bet if I did, with this name, I'd get hated ) but I do support those who do. About his suggestion (in the video) an in-game civilian clothing store would be interesting, even for non-RPers. I sometimes feel the need to run around in Cyrodiil in a pink dress I stole.

We definitely could do with more detailed emotes too, like as NPCs can eat while sitting and we can't.

I want to walk around with my torch without having to do the bugged emote thing which I can't see, myself.

Ra'Shtar

More emotes are always awesome, i would also love an addition of some slots so we can put those civilian clothing without losing our gear with stats.

Mike0987

I would like to be able to go fishing while sitting in a chair, all the fighting my character does he just wants to relax while fishing.

Wollust

Could always need some more emotes in PvP

MornaBaine

Hopefully the Mods will see that though this video is aimed at RPers it really has broader applications to the wider player base as well, as evidenced by the responses above. So hopefully they'll leave this here in general discussion where it actually belongs.

SantieClaws

Thing is we would not be in this sort of game unless we were, even in a very small way, role playing.

The RP community are the foundations of a game like this. They bring life and character to a game world in the way that a scripted NPC never can.

Look after your RP community and generally look after people's ability to form social communities in this game and you are investing in the long term health of your game. If people have friends here then they stay longer.

The things I think we need to build on for this are:

Housing - preferably in a way so that anyone from any alliance can visit the home of another
A cross alliance meet up area
Emotes
Festivals
Some other kind of hobbies as well as fishing

MornaBaine

wenxue2222b16_ESO wrote: »

Look after your RP community and generally look after people's ability to form social communities in this game and you are investing in the long term health of your game. If people have friends here then they stay longer.

You have COMPLETELY hit the nail on the head here. The ONLY reason I'm still playing this game is because of my amazing RP guild. It has NOTHING to do with ZoS. Which is sad.

Daraugh

Slightly off track here, but yesterday I was on the pts for the Heart's Day event. I don't really RP, but I like watching other people, (without interfering) so it's an aspect of the game I have very little experience with. I understand a lot better now, why RPers want instanced housing and other ways of dealing with trolls. I hope there's a way around having to instance it off, since that would isolate something that adds a lot to the aliveness of the world.

Here's a couple of screenshots, one I had to edit because it would be removed if I hadn't.

My previous game was Lotro and the server I was on had an amazing RP community. I loved just being around for festivals and going through towns because the RPers made the world that much more alive. Supporting roleplay is really key to keeping the world lively. So from a non-RPer, help these guys out!

SantieClaws

Some people's idea of a good time is just piddling all over whatever other people are trying to do.

Best way to deal with that is in game GMs and a prison isle of some kind.

But group instanced RP space is a possible compromise - although as a sort of light non formal RP type I actually like seeing people gathering for events and things in the world. I was at the wedding last night and was quite enjoying it early on - about 20 mins before the event - when just a few people were gathering in their best frocks, drinking, occasionally fighting. Felt just like a real wedding then.

MornaBaine

wenxue2222b16_ESO wrote: »

Some people's idea of a good time is just piddling all over whatever other people are trying to do.

Best way to deal with that is in game GMs and a prison isle of some kind.

But group instanced RP space is a possible compromise - although as a sort of light non formal RP type I actually like seeing people gathering for events and things in the world. I was at the wedding last night and was quite enjoying it early on - about 20 mins before the event - when just a few people were gathering in their best frocks, drinking, occasionally fighting. Felt just like a real wedding then.

The visual ignore is what we need most. In the long term it keeps everyone happy. We roleplayers have long "settled" for dark corners we could scurry off to in order to avoid the trolls but with today's technology it shouldn't be necessary anymore. I really hope ZoS steps up.

menedhyn

I would love to see the introduction of temporary camps or something similar. For those of us who yearn for a more simple existence and are less interested in expansive homes and 'clutter', a quiet sheltered spot beneath the stars would be hard to ignore. Or perhaps selfishly, on a bough of a tree...

As mentioned elsewhere, festivals, gatherings and other entertainment-based group events could work well.

I can't help thinking that religions, beliefs or local traditions represent a great untapped resource for RP improvements, above and beyond specific quests or our own in-game actions.

BabeestorGor

I'd agree with all of the suggestions made in the video.
If visual ignore or RP-flagged players being phased together didn't happen then the best solution might be instanced areas available for RP. Not just homes and/or guildhalls but also possibly rooms in inns, temple/cathedrals, Fighter and Mage Guild Halls.

Lysette

I used Climates of Tamriel and Frostfall in Skyrim - which came with camping gear, fire place, tanning rags and such. I loved that so much to be able to camp outdoors and just make camp whenever I had to warm up, eat and drink something or have a rest - the ability to make camp in beautiful spots and relax and chill a bit there is priceless. Same goes for fishing or picking flowers, this can be quite relaxing, if not done in a hurry, or in an yet unknown area.

I like all of the suggestions in OP's video though - all what makes Tamriel feel like a "real" world, where we can live in. I give a damn about fast progression in the game, I advance rather slowly and want to enjoy the game world. It would be really nice to be able to connect to other players of my level, who are as well not in a hurry - so RP flagging like suggested would be great.

Abeille

Yes please.

All of that.

The RP flag is my favourite, and it doesn't look hard to implement.

MornaBaine

BabeestorGor wrote: »

I'd agree with all of the suggestions made in the video.
If visual ignore or RP-flagged players being phased together didn't happen then the best solution might be instanced areas available for RP. Not just homes and/or guildhalls but also possibly rooms in inns, temple/cathedrals, Fighter and Mage Guild Halls.

The ability to return to completed quest areas with a group referenced in the video would do wonders for the Rp community. You'd have a mob-less space to use as a setting for Rp and because it would be instanced and only available to your group it would be a perfect troll-free space. If ZoS does NOTHING ELSE for us RPers and the problem of being harassed by other players in general THIS ONE THING would make me happy.

Khamira

Even if I'm some kind of a "half roleplayer" I think that everything mentioned in that video is awesome. Starting from the easiest to implement ideas would be nice, and then we could think about what's next.

But I think that isolating roleplayers from the rest of the world would be a little bit sad. It's nice to see "interactive NPCs" from time to time, even if they're sometimes just a bunch of ignoring you butt-holes.

Lysette

It is kind of fascinating to observe, how people react, when I walk through town instead to run like anyone else. I basically blend in with the NPCs and people are approaching me as if I would be an NPC, stop for a moment, look at me and then they realize, I am a player, and they continue with their bee hive activities. Sometimes I wish that there would be a bonus for walking for some time - like a "rested" boost to stamina and/or magicka to be used later, but this will never happen unfortunately.

menedhyn

Lysette wrote: »

It is kind of fascinating to observe, how people react, when I walk through town instead to run like anyone else. I basically blend in with the NPCs and people are approaching me as if I would be an NPC, stop for a moment, look at me and then they realize, I am a player, and they continue with their bee hive activities. Sometimes I wish that there would be a bonus for walking for some time - like a "rested" boost to stamina and/or magicka to be used later, but this will never happen unfortunately.

As a fellow 'walker', i'm with you on this one. My char often comments to herself that everyone is always running. Everywhere. All of the time. Each to their own of course, but I do find it quite amusing.

MornaBaine

Khamira wrote: »

Even if I'm some kind of a "half roleplayer" I think that everything mentioned in that video is awesome. Starting from the easiest to implement ideas would be nice, and then we could think about what's next.

But I think that isolating roleplayers from the rest of the world would be a little bit sad. It's nice to see "interactive NPCs" from time to time, even if they're sometimes just a bunch of ignoring you butt-holes.

I'm fine when all the non-RPers ignore me and don't acknowledge my presence. It's when they insist on trolling me that I object. Having that visual ignore feature implemented would keep roleplayers out in the open world where they can be observed by those who enjoy seeing them. And, of course, those who don't could make the "disappear." The beauty of that longed for feature is that it lets everyone "play their way" and have a world to experience that suits them.

Lysette

paganach wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

It is kind of fascinating to observe, how people react, when I walk through town instead to run like anyone else. I basically blend in with the NPCs and people are approaching me as if I would be an NPC, stop for a moment, look at me and then they realize, I am a player, and they continue with their bee hive activities. Sometimes I wish that there would be a bonus for walking for some time - like a "rested" boost to stamina and/or magicka to be used later, but this will never happen unfortunately.

As a fellow 'walker', i'm with you on this one. My char often comments to herself that everyone is always running. Everywhere. All of the time. Each to their own of course, but I do find it quite amusing.

Now this reminded me of Assassin's Creed and the comments people make on the street if you run instead to walk like everyone else. You are doing it just like them, I guess.

Pallmor

This one thinks that ZOS would never allow an in-game clothing store because it would compete with their Crown Store.

This one also thinks that you should use a controller for better movement speed control. This one thinks that analog stick users are....how you say....a "master race," yes?

MornaBaine

It would be really great if a Dev, like, you know, maybe @ZOS_GinaBruno would comment on this. ZOS does an awful lot of lip service towards roleplayers and tries really hard to convince us they keep us in mind when they do things. But I very seldom see that translate into anything tangible in the game. I'd be thrilled to be proven wrong.

couchkyle25_ESO

Yea, would be nice to see ZoS's reaction to this list of not so outlandish requests.

Volkodav

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Volkodav

Much of what was proposed here is awesome.There were a few that I wasnt really interested in,and they just went right out the other side of my head.However,95% of what is in the video would be a welcome addition!