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I myslf RP quite often. The top three RP'ers here seem to be as follows: Kulikovo, Canadstein, and [::NS]Reallydrunk, If you don't count myself. Any RP ideas? You favorite RP so-far?

ooc: How do you define a frequent RPer?

ooc: How do you define a frequent RPer?
Someone who generally posts on a RP every other day consistantly, or starts an RP every week, or two.

I might not RP much but i do read the entire first page of the forum at least once a day and i have nevr heard of Kulikovo or Canadstein....

I might not RP much but i do read the entire first page of the forum at least once a day and i have nevr heard of Kulikovo or Canadstein....
then you clearly dont RP much

as for myself, i dont RP as much as I want to

While I've been seduced to the Nationstates forum(mostly) I'm still fairly active here.

While I've been seduced to the Nationstates forum(mostly) I'm still fairly active here.
You do mean the general forum, correct?

I poke my nose in here a lot, but I don't do much actual RP. I tried getting involved on someone else's RP awhile back, then I had to take a break for a few hours, and when I got back, there were 5 pages of posts, much of it from nations far bigger and better equipped for heavy warfare than mine.

You do mean the general forum, correct?
No, the Nationstates forum(the other roleplay forum.)
I've posted maybe 100-200 times on General since I got here.

There isn't a lot of new well thought out Role Plays like when I first started. I mostly see a lot of the same RP's floating, or inexperinenced trolls starting up idiotic posts

There isn't a lot of new well thought out Role Plays like when I first started. I mostly see a lot of the same RP's floating, or inexperinenced trolls starting up idiotic posts
LNI declares war!!! :headbang: I just became ZX81 H4X0R0R

Work just takes up too much of my time.

LNI declares war!!! :headbang: I just became ZX81 H4X0R0R

Sorry was that a Declaration of war against Kraven and its Slave States?


I try to RP as much as possible, but often with my memory, I forget about RP's I've got going, people just need to remind me with a friendly TG

I'm not taht frequent on NS anymore, but on Earth 7 and Death and Glory you can almost always find me. I just haven't found what keeps me active as of late.

I RP a lot but I have the problem of getting bored with RP's (mostly ones which have newbs who post two lines, that just makes me angry) and then sometimes I get bored of the nation I'm RPing as and change that, so far I've been through 15 puppets in as many months, so I RP a lot but I find very few stories really exite me.

Erm... so we're judging RPers by the frequency of their posts now?

Just because someone posts often doesn't mean they're a good RPer. For instance, I have about 1,000 posts in various RPs and most of them were simply awful. And some of the best RPers I know of have participated in very few RPs at all, such as Democratic Colonies, Ato-Sara, Ottoman Khaif and so on.

Sorry was that a Declaration of war against Kraven and its Slave States?
Yes. Wait, wait, I meant no!!!

I am not sure if I would be considered a frequent RPer or not lately, I have been trying to RP more often, and I come on every day, but I do not know

OOC:

If you want to look at a truly great RP, look at the War of Golden Succession.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=485475&highlight=Golden+Succession

It is infinitely greater than the piss poor jumble of marriage threads that currently infest II.

OOC:

If you want to look at a truly great RP, look at the War of Golden Succession.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=485475&highlight=Golden+Succession

It is infinitely greater than the piss poor jumble of marriage threads that currently infest II.
Take that, Kuli!

OOC:

If you want to look at a truly great RP, look at the War of Golden Succession.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=485475&highlight=Golden+Succession

It is infinitely greater than the piss poor jumble of marriage threads that currently infest II.

I would join (For Jon and I have RPed alot together on W@W and other RPs, but with my Country in the shape that it is right now, I cannot lose any troops to other engagements.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=485004

RP here has really gone down the drain, wtf happened to the good RPers and the good threads.. I've seen one good RP and thats passion play.. the rest are one paragraph per post 'u godmoddad! no u did! NOEZ DOGPIEL' shit.

RP here has really gone down the drain, wtf happened to the good RPers and the good threads.. I've seen one good RP and thats passion play.. the rest are one paragraph per post 'u godmoddad! no u did! NOEZ DOGPIEL' shit.

Hey, I beg to differ on that Hogswheat. The Jomagian Standoff has had some good RPing, it just hasn't been very active over the past week

RP here has really gone down the drain, wtf happened to the good RPers and the good threads.. I've seen one good RP and thats passion play.. the rest are one paragraph per post 'u godmoddad! no u did! NOEZ DOGPIEL' shit.
That's a huge overgeneralization.
Also, if a post is more than... say... five paragraphs, I generally just glaze over it... because some people write ridiculously long posts that say nothing. One to three well written paragraphs is just about perfect.

That's a huge overgeneralization.
Also, if a post is more than... say... five paragraphs, I generally just glaze over it... because some people write ridiculously long posts that say nothing. One to three well written paragraphs is just about perfect.

And that is why the age of detail is ending. Because newbies are too lazy to read

RP here has really gone down the drain, wtf happened to the good RPers and the good threads.. I've seen one good RP and thats passion play.. the rest are one paragraph per post 'u godmoddad! no u did! NOEZ DOGPIEL' shit.

*bashes Hoggie for not reading his (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=442037) work (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=484966)* [/thread hijack]

On the whole, though, I totally agree with you and Ty', especially about those "blahblah is looking for a match" threads.

And that is why the age of detail is ending. Because newbies are too lazy to read
When I RP with someone, I want a good level of detail, but I don't want to read a freaking novel.

*bashes Hoggie for not reading his (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=442037) work (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=484966)* [/thread hijack]

On the whole, though, I totally agree with you and Ty', especially about those "blahblah is looking for a match" threads.

Yea, those courtship threads are pretty boring, but nice work Yafor, that is some great RPing, and Liberated New Ireland, what does it matter the length as long as the post is good. And I am pretty sure no novel is 5 paragraphs

That's a huge overgeneralization.
Also, if a post is more than... say... five paragraphs, I generally just glaze over it... because some people write ridiculously long posts that say nothing. One to three well written paragraphs is just about perfect.

Oh look, another Pythogria.

(this is going to sound cliched, so bear with me)

Let's take a war RP for example. In a war RP, you don't just have to RP 'My tanks fire their 120mm ETC guns over the river.' It's not all about that. The really interesting bits, alongside all the technical stuff, is how a nation copes with dying generations; the characters you can develop over RPs, the sadness and the joy you can write about them experiencing. More detail can give an insight into how a military works - I can be what you could call a 'tech wanker', putting as many numbers as possible into a post. I learnt a long time ago that is not what roleplay is all about. I'm having a little skirmish with Juumanistra atm (Little skirmish as in total war >.>) and I'm currently writing about the troops on the ground, their reaction to hundreds of thousands of losses, the admirals, all kinds of things;- I find this fun. Inside my head I have a whole nation that I can't just express in 3 paragraphs. I <3 my imagination and it <3s me back.

Btw, when I said that about PP, I meant that all the other RPs I've read are totally shit, not all the other RPs on the forum. Sorry about the misunderstanding.

Brb, I think i'll make a rant.

Wow, you don't even know me, and you clearly have never read my posts, and you're saying I'm like Pythogria. Thanks, jackass.

Anyway, I don't mind detailed posts, but if I'm in a war RP and someone makes a post that is something like five screens long, I stop caring, like, halfway through. If you can't get a soldier's reaction to death and devastation across in a few sentences, something is wrong with your control of the English language.

Wow, you don't even know me, and you clearly have never read my posts, and you're saying I'm like Pythogria. Thanks, jackass.

Anyway, I don't mind detailed posts, but if I'm in a war RP and someone makes a post that is something like five screens long, I stop caring, like, halfway through. If you can't get a soldier's reaction to death and devastation across in a few sentences, something is wrong with your control of the English language.

No problem. If you ever need a favour in reading the forum rules, just call, k?

No problem. If you ever need a favour in reading the forum rules, just call, k?
Just call? Can I get your number?

And, also, home address, hours in which you sleep... you know, the basics:D

44 01759 341 442.

7 Antfield Lane.

I'm usually at home from 17:30 - 9:00. Please don't come at night or my pair of german shepherds will rip you to shreds kthxbai.

Please don't come at night or my pair of german shepherds will rip you to shreds kthxbai.

German Shepherds, I thought you were British? :eek:

Erm... so we're judging RPers by the frequency of their posts now?

Just because someone posts often doesn't mean they're a good RPer. For instance, I have about 1,000 posts in various RPs and most of them were simply awful. And some of the best RPers I know of have participated in very few RPs at all, such as Democratic Colonies, Ato-Sara, Ottoman Khaif and so on.
Did I say good RP'er? NO! I said frequent!

I do role-play on the forum quite often. And I agree with Czardas - as I've learned (the hard way, I was unstable IRL due to personal issues and I was new to the Internet, so I acted in a somewhat n00bish manner) on another forum, post count doesn't mean anything in the terms of role-playing ability. In role-playing ability, QUALITY is what counts, not QUANTITY.

Anyway, what do you all think of my ability as a role-player, not to be egotistic....I haven't had many comments on my ability as a writer, NS is in fact one of the main reasons why I started writing again.

I've not seen much of you (SEA) myself, but what i've seen is good. and i'm a frequent RPer, just not so much here. i try to keep to one post a day on my main threads at least, but sometimes that goes wrong. (and I'm a regular roleplayer offline. swansea white wolf FTW! [/hijack..])

and theres at least 4 good FT RPs going on at the moment. they've slipped a bit, but they're active in the evenings. go search for my name and look at them. (the obvious FT ones) and then come back and stop whining and\or post your own good rp

Wow, you don't even know me, and you clearly have never read my posts, and you're saying I'm like Pythogria. Thanks, jackass.

Anyway, I don't mind detailed posts, but if I'm in a war RP and someone makes a post that is something like five screens long, I stop caring, like, halfway through. If you can't get a soldier's reaction to death and devastation across in a few sentences, something is wrong with your control of the English language.

Have you ever actually taken the time to read epic posts?

Trust me some of the RPers on NS really do put some great stuff in there, it'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, and I'm really sorry if I sound out of it but I havn't slept in 24 hours and it's starting to get to me.

I'm quite a regular RPer, though not with this puppet.
I generally stick to my little niche of either PT or FT though...and a few ongoing RPs, not loads of short ones.
Sadly they seem to die off just as they're getting really interesting...either that or people take what happens to their nation far too personally, and go all sore loser over it.

I've not seen much of you (SEA) myself, but what i've seen is good.
Really, thanks! What posts and threads in particular? Any criticisms regarding how they can be better?

I do role-play on the forum quite often. And I agree with Czardas - as I've learned (the hard way, I was unstable IRL due to personal issues and I was new to the Internet, so I acted in a somewhat n00bish manner) on another forum, post count doesn't mean anything in the terms of role-playing ability. In role-playing ability, QUALITY is what counts, not QUANTITY.

Anyway, what do you all think of my ability as a role-player, not to be egotistic....I haven't had many comments on my ability as a writer, NS is in fact one of the main reasons why I started writing again.

SEA, we liked you much better before you started caring what other people thought of you enough to TG them. I've never read anything you've written, link?

Frequent RPer? Guilty as charged :D
As to whether I'm any good, I don't know, you'd have to ask some of those I've RPed with....
Tho the only one I see here that I've really come up against is Toops, and even then it's been involvement in the same RP, not direct contact.

All the big ones seem to hit a bottleneck of needing someone to post who then doesn't...and then people sort of drift away and they die :(

SEA, we liked you much better before you started caring what other people thought of you enough to TG them. I've never read anything you've written, link?
*shrugs* It's a tendency I have. I'm often overly inquisitive IRL, and I guess that factor transfered over here to NS.

And by write, I mean that I used to write some stories (in hindsight, they were utterly poor....but what is to be expected, nobody is born a writer, writers are made) on my own computer and for a short while I wrote some stories online...can't remember the site link though, not a role-play forum.

Anyway, in speaking of writing, as technically free form role play and writing are interconnected as they both involve a keyboard and human freethinking, here's three samples of role-plays I'm particularly fond about.

Stability and Fraternity (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=467698)
The Corporate Entente: Shadow of the Almighty Dollar... (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=467698)
This post (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11011057&postcount=19) in A Drawing To Die For (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=482290)


The first because it was an oppurtunity to describe how my capital and government functioned.

The second because the person I rped with was a good writer, too bad he had to leave because of university.

The third, because it was one of my better posts.

I used to be active literally years ago, in the days of the RIA (don't think anyone will remember it, as it was quite small, but never mind)
And every now and again I make a few posts, it doesn't help that the RPs I'm in tend to die, which is 50/50 my fault.

Ya RIA, I remember the RIA, Reborn Imperialist Alliance?

Not as frequent as I like. II just doesn't have many good RPs left.

Ya RIA, I remember the RIA, Reborn Imperialist Alliance?

Yup. Blew the crap out of Camewot before we got rushed by everyone. It was a nooby war and no mistake, but great fun.

Good old RIA. Unified Sith / Imperial Brits told me he was going to relaunch it t'other day.

Good old RIA. Unified Sith / Imperial Brits told me he was going to relaunch it t'other day.

Yup. We need to re-write its charter, but if there's free time and interest...

Have you ever actually taken the time to read epic posts?

Trust me some of the RPers on NS really do put some great stuff in there, it'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, and I'm really sorry if I sound out of it but I havn't slept in 24 hours and it's starting to get to me.
Actually, I read long posts if they're worth reading. But some of these guys just ramble on and on... and I glaze over those. I also hate the other extreme, where CERTAIN RPers (like Pyth), will post two lines and that's it. If nothing else, I hate it, because I have to reduce the quality of my posts, because there is just so little to react to.
In summation, I say, write quality posts, and I believe that being concise is a necessary element of quality writing.

FIN

Actually, I read long posts if they're worth reading. But some of these guys just ramble on and on... and I glaze over those. I also hate the other extreme, where CERTAIN RPers (like Pyth), will post two lines and that's it. If nothing else, I hate it, because I have to reduce the quality of my posts, because there is just so little to react to.
In summation, I say, write quality posts, and I believe that being concise is a necessary element of quality writing.

FIN

Oh now that I really hate, I was in an FT war with this guy called 1010102 and he kept posting 2 lines in response to my detailed descriptions of the inner workings of my ships in combat, in the end he just wore down my excitement of RPing and I gave up for a while and came back as Toopoxia.