G'day All,
Whilst not a newbie to RP, I am to GTA, and naturally Eclipse (first post). thought I'd share my thoughts.
I have a friend here I used to RP with, why I'm choosing Eclipse, however I've been away from it for a few years (life) plus all my previous RP has been done on A3, so it will take me sometime to get used to all the keybindings, commands, emotes, scripts, etc,
Like learning to drive a car, reading a manual and doing a multiple choice quiz test, doesn't turn us into drivers, getting out on the road, making mistakes does. However when those mistakes impact on others, it can cause road rage, in the case of a small community like this, like living in a small country town, frustrations build like a volcano.
A second server operating with the same scripts would be ideal, time spent learning, making mistakes with others similar, hopefully/eventually be observed as a great role player, be promoted to the main server, like things used to be. Failing that... mistakes will be frustrating for both of us, I can only hope for your patience and understanding (rather than bullets).
As per some of the comments above, I've also noticed a downgrade in the quality of RP, IMO there's a few reasons for it;
Since the increase to server pop (not because of it), it seems most majors have dumped their 2nd/public servers (training grounds) that were feeding the whitelisted servers for quality.
Those that do get access (sometimes only via donation), are either newbies to RP with only the knowledge they have from watching streamers (not all are a good examples), or, they have some RP experience, but retraining their brain/fingers (distracted) to a somewhat different coding environment (all servers have different coders, mods, content etc).
Either way, their all going to be interacting, perhaps frustrating RP, with people/characters that have experience/knowledge with that particular server. Only one way I can think to fix it, bring back the training grounds, bump them up when they prove themselves.
Finally; I've been going through all the rules, guides etc, on the "Roleplay Guide", got down to the "Criminal Roleplay" section, where it has a link to "Commands List", great! I'll print that out and stick it on the wall next to my monitor for reference, however, unfortunately its a "Dead Link". Wonder how long its been like that without someone reporting it.
Looking forward to some fun (hopefully not frustrating) RP with you all.
Cheers!
