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Role-playing in ESO

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  • Member
    January 27, 2020

    Paws said:

    Buy bigger houses Goldie.

    No.

    The smaller houses are more fun. I've still got my Twin-Arches which is unfinished and I have no idea what to do with it. In comparison having way less space and a smaller item limit force me to be creative in how I reflect the character, I have to get the point across while using as few items as possible.

     

  • Member
    January 28, 2020

    Meli said:

    I'm trying to remember exactly when and where it was, I feel like it was a temple, but I maybe wrong. Definitely in Orsinium, and during a quest, Dorcas hits every bookcase and cabinet, nd there may have been a puzzle to solve...

    Is that the entrance to the secret passages leading from the Temple of Ire to Scarp Keep? Confession: I always get that puzzle wrong. There's something about the layout of it that I find confusing as hell.

    Golden Fool said:

    Paws said:

    Buy bigger houses Goldie.

    No.

    The smaller houses are more fun. I've still got my Twin-Arches which is unfinished and I have no idea what to do with it. In comparison having way less space and a smaller item limit force me to be creative in how I reflect the character, I have to get the point across while using as few items as possible.

    Small houses are fun, true that. More fun than inn rooms, which, while fun, are a bit frustrating. I totally get the desire to express who and what a character is, but look around you. I'm willing to bet the items in your bedroom that reflect who you are couldn't fit in an inn room.

    For me, a house the size of the Coven Cottage is the perfect size, although I remember we had great fun decorating the Black Vine Villa. So I'm just saying just buy more of those. Like, you may have hit a wall with Twin Arches but you didn't with the Jungle House. It happens, so just leave Twin Arches unfinished until you are inspired. Meanwhile, Autumn's Gate or Humblemud or Black Vine or  Snugpod offer new ways to reflect your characters and inspire you without the limit imposed by inn rooms and without the need to hit the item limit at all. You can keep it minimalist yet still double or triple the number of itmes you can place, and do so with less than 100k in expenses.

     

  • Member
    January 28, 2020

    Paws said:

    Meli said:

    I'm trying to remember exactly when and where it was, I feel like it was a temple, but I maybe wrong. Definitely in Orsinium, and during a quest, Dorcas hits every bookcase and cabinet, nd there may have been a puzzle to solve...

    Is that the entrance to the secret passages leading from the Temple of Ire to Scarp Keep? Confession: I always get that puzzle wrong. There's something about the layout of it that I find confusing as hell.

    Yes! That's the one, took me a while to get that as well

    Paws said:

    Small houses are fun, true that. More fun than inn rooms, which, while fun, are a bit frustrating. I totally get the desire to express who and what a character is, but look around you. I'm willing to bet the items in your bedroom that reflect who you are couldn't fit in an inn room.

    For me, a house the size of the Coven Cottage is the perfect size, although I remember we had great fun decorating the Black Vine Villa. So I'm just saying just buy more of those. Like, you may have hit a wall with Twin Arches but you didn't with the Jungle House. It happens, so just leave Twin Arches unfinished until you are inspired. Meanwhile, Autumn's Gate or Humblemud or Black Vine or  Snugpod offer new ways to reflect your characters and inspire you without the limit imposed by inn rooms and without the need to hit the item limit at all. You can keep it minimalist yet still double or triple the number of itmes you can place, and do so with less than 100k in expenses.

     

    What is it with the inn rooms? Rose Lion is okay, but Mara's Kiss? Awful, put a bed and chest in there and that's all there is room for. Dorcas picked up Hammerdeath, which will get sectioned into rooms, Ji'sari is still early days so need to see what type of home she would prefer

  • Member
    January 28, 2020

    Meli said:

    What is it with the inn rooms? Rose Lion is okay, but Mara's Kiss? Awful, put a bed and chest in there and that's all there is room for. Dorcas picked up Hammerdeath, which will get sectioned into rooms, Ji'sari is still early days so need to see what type of home she would prefer

    Sure Mara's Kiss is the smallest player house available, but you're underestimating what you can do with it. The ceiling is surprisingly high, making it possible to build a second floor that you can stand on (although the camera forces you into first person).

     

  • Member
    January 28, 2020
    Now I'm curious, I'll look into that hmmm...
  • Member
    January 29, 2020

    Meli said: Now I'm curious, I'll look into that hmmm...

    Here's another example of making a second floor.

    Now back to the original topic. After thinking about it some more I realised that one of my Khajiit will stop in the middle of what she's doing to clean herself like a cat, quite possibly to confuse people. I don't necessarily have control over it because I'm using an addon to play certain emotes as idol animations, so she will literally just start licking herself.

  • Member
    January 30, 2020

    I RP that my characters are actually good at the game. It's a stretch, but what RP isn't? xD

  • Member
    January 31, 2020
    ^ Totally this. I was testing a few things on PTS yesterday before hopping back onto live for an Imp C daily and monster hunt for the Legion Zero stuff. Feeling confident and possibly a bit cocky after getting the 100 Imperial City kills achievement, I came across the massive clanfear wandering monster in Elven Gardens. I put the word in zone chat, then took the monster on. By the time it was at 75% health, still no DC to help. 50% still no blues. 25% I'm thinking this is actually quite hard and I wish I was wearing just one more stamina regen glyph. Then I get ganked by an AD shiteblade who was probably there the whole time just waiting for me to do the hard work. So, time to do something else because that's just not fun. A bit of questing where I can feel like a bad ass and forget about the soreness in my rear end after getting it handed to me in IC. Speaking of, when it comes to rp I've noticed that I tend to be a bit anal. Like, I don't meta and can only do a quest out of its correct sequence if my character already knows about it. For instance, I know I need to go to Camlorn for the next main zone quest but my toon doesn't. So I will make sure he jumps the hoops so as to get the dialogue telling him to go to Camlorn. Not sure why that is, but it seems to be important to me.
  • Member
    January 31, 2020

    Paws said: Speaking of, when it comes to rp I've noticed that I tend to be a bit anal. Like, I don't meta and can only do a quest out of its correct sequence if my character already knows about it. For instance, I know I need to go to Camlorn for the next main zone quest but my toon doesn't. So I will make sure he jumps the hoops so as to get the dialogue telling him to go to Camlorn. Not sure why that is, but it seems to be important to me.

    Simple answer, you're roleplaying. You have a firm understanding of what your character knows and how they would act based on that knowledge, so unless you can come up with another reason that they would be wandering Camlorn where they can "overhear" people talking about the events of the quest, it makes sense that your character would need someone to mention it to them. You or I wouldn't instinctively know about some interesting event happening in the next town/suburb/city over so we'd have no real reason to go looking for it, but if someone told us about it or we had another reason to be there and happened to notice it we might get involved.

     

  • Member
    January 31, 2020
    Yeah, I agree with that. I think I find it noteworthy because there is like a switch that gets flipped. That character might have spent the last half hour porting all across Tamriel picking up material caches, hopped into a BG, and maybe done a dungeon before the switch is flipped and I'm in rp mode where I stop doing those things, mount my horse, and set off down the road like a questing knight of old. It's odd because when I'm not in rp mode, I'll ignore everything. I'm deep in the Alik'r harvesting a platinum node when a Redguard dude runs up and is like, "thank Ruptga you're here..." I'm all, "sorry no time. Got resources to gather." When the switch is flipped I can't ignore something like that. I'm assuming everyone is the same but would be interested if anyone incorporates those sorts of activities into their rp process. The strict observance to quest sequence dictates I have to do the base game MQ on each character, too, which is more important now that the original Companions crop up in dlc and chapters. I have tried to do some dlc content on a fresh character but it just doesn't work for me. So when I make a new toon, I always port to my ship which acts as the gateway for me to head back to the mainland and start in chronological order.