(03-28-2012, 03:08 PM)CappnRob Wrote: [ -> ]Eh, variety is the spice of life to me. I love have as many possible different flavors of places to RP in. Really, the location sometimes makes the RP more fun than the actual RP itself. I'm a loser for immersion like that.
If I wanted to close my eyes and play pretend, I'd just RP on Skype.
Yeah, pretty much this.
A while ago, I was quite big into city/home RP. Now, playing a carpton of Blood Elves, that meant Sillymoon. But. There's only a single NPC-less building in Silvermoon, that you can pass for a 'house'. And I wasn't the only person wanting to RP there. At times, literal queues were formed outside it, waiting for one group to leave so the next could enter. Can you fathom how uncomfortable that is for the people inside? To know that they're being waited on, and that the group outside's standing there, judging?
Nowadays, the situation could easily have been solved with phasing. It's funny that people don't want us to resort to it, because it was created(alongside instancing itself) specifically to allow players access to areas and challenges without having to queue up, and wait for boss respawns or for one group to finish so the next can start.
Plus, phasing is quite elegant in that there aren't any walk-ins, for instance, unless such are wanted.
I'm not talking about insane places like RPing in the Nexus or other instances. Main Cities, for instance, are way, way bigger than they appear In-game. Phasing can be used to represent that. Thus, the phased part of the city is simply an extension of the bits represented in-game. 'Around' the same place, but not exactly the same place.
For instance, we have the Necropolis RP Location, in the OOC Portal. No one's gonna just say 'THIS IS ZERAMAS! IT IS OURS! /mwahahaha!" but rather, "This is just a Necropolis."
Same way Ravenholdt's "Just a mansion on a mountain-top." same way any number of crypts in the world can be "Just a random crypt." - Heck, the Eastern Kingdoms(Especially around Andorhal) is -littered- with countless crypts, extending as far South as the Badlands.
The problem here is fear. Fear of abuse. There's a distinct lack of trust my radar's picking up. It's not like people will or have ever said that they literally are RP-ing in a heavy Lore-location like Scholomance or Ulduar or the Nexus, now have they?
I support having a phased NS Abbey up, and that is my argument. Heck, I support the use of Phasing technology everywhere. Whilst also respecting that certain areas and instances are intentionally too dangerous and shouldn't be RP-ed in, even when you're phased.
Those're my two cents.