All of you attempting to pretend that rping is going to be something are blind, simple as that. Once you are crushed beneath some russian gankers, who zerg you, or a whole swath of ruthless trolls, you wont play anymore, your butts sore from how nobody roleplays. That is what i am trying to tell you, but apparently like i said, you all seem to have literally zero, ZERO, internet experience, or atleast so it seems. I dont care what you say, or what crap you want to try and throw at me, if you literally cant see what im telling you, then you are blind. There is nothing bitter about what i say, its reality, experience i have gained from playing, games, politics, playing both sides of a war, playing on someones emotions to later backstab them for their equipment.
Would you like examples?
Go play Dayz, there is a reason why there are two separate servers, one for roleplaying, and the other for the rest of the world, they do not co-mingle because it doesnt work, near 90% of the time, talking to someone even when they were at a disadvantage(back turned, no weapon, etc), they still attempted to kill me either on the spot, or later down the road, even when the first words out of my mouth are "hi, im friendly, i dont mean any harm, please dont fight me".
Go play Haven & Hearth;
Haven and Hearth, a game which has incredibly similar characteristics, I was walking around building a wall, i saw a man, who came on screen quite suddenly, i spoke to him saying "hello friend, im friendly, peaceful, and dont have much". He said hello back, walked up to me, knocked me out and began looting me, i stood no chance, i stated to him, "friend why would you do that, i am but a simpled man just trying to live a meager new life out here", his response was simple, "like i give a fuck", taking all i had.
Another related offense on the same game consisted of a man caught stealing from my house, i asked him to drop what he had stolen, and that he and i could just turn cheek and not speak of this again, instead he came back with 6 men and murdered my entire village on a whim, while i attempted to be "nice, and roleplay a hermit".
Strategus, something im sure you have never heard of, i and my small crew attempted to live a life in a forest until we eventually could come across a village that could have been our own, away from everyone, no enemies whatsoever, we had control of the village for about a week, until a group decided it was time to troll, no declaration of war, no preemptive warning, nothing, yet other clans would perform these ritualistic deeds to roleplay, just as a sign of fair play, and for the good of the game.
Eve Online, i had just started, joined up with a small group of 18 players, we had basically nothing. A French group, decided to declare war on us, we had never heard of them, nor did anything to anyone else, why did he declare war? money, he wanted to squeeze money out of us, money we didnt have, because we were new. We had no choice but to disband, and go our separate ways. Months later i joined with another group, a larger group, much more organized, able to defend itself. Someone declares war on us, guess who it is? the fucking french twat and his group, he told me i never paid my debt, tracked down all of us and declared war on everyone, he brought one of the large alliances playing in on the war dec. essentially bringing our playtime to a halt. I couldnt leave stations, i couldnt play a game i was paying for, because we had no way to defend ourselves. Why did he bother chasing us down months later for no reason? was it to troll? idk, what i do know was, it was an awful game experience, sitting in a station spinning your ship in circles, because you hired mercs with the last bit of money you could gather between you and the group, giving away all your money to be out paid by those french guys to the same mercs you hired, and they instead turning on you.
These are just a small bit of the vast experiences i bring to the table, that you cannot fathom. Like i said before, we will be playing game which has death, and looting, people who wont play to the same rules, meta gaming like fools, so why bother when they wont and will more then likely ruthlessly murder you for your bundle of sticks you managed to gather on your first hour of playing.
Either way, you will either dissolve whatever roleplaying you do, or you will fold to other players who dont, and meta game to kill you, because they will kill you, because this is a game, not real life, and they wont play by your rules, they play by theirs, oh and they dont have any.
Im tired of this discussion, you will continue posting telling me how superior you will be, and how nothing will harm you, staking claims to land, and title. The game hasnt started, you have no idea of what powers lay dormant, this game hasnt even reached out to players that it should have, please continue making yourselves good targets.
More examples, because you seem to not get it:
http://youtu.be/aqJG36aPN0ohttp://youtu.be/X3ucf_yJFRghttp://youtu.be/6xEpCVfqch0There are so many more, just type in youtube, "insert game name" and "pvp or trolling or pking etc". This is what you are trying to bring yourself into, and i dont think you are prepared.