Help with harassment from other Roleplayers?

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Posted by: AsmrtOtaku.5084

AsmrtOtaku.5084

Q:

Hello everyone,

So this issue initially wasn’t a big problem for me but due to current circumstances now I can’t keep quiet about it anymore. Lately there have been more people bothering me about my role play for various reasons, some are understandable and some don’t even have a reason. I normally do not care about things like this and just block the people bothering me but when it bothers the people I interact with and makes it hard for me to enjoy basic RP, then there is an issue. I’m aware that there are a lot of ways to deal with this but I would like some advice on what is the best way to go about it.

Backstory to better Understand the Issue
So I’ve been role playing since my early days of Guild Wars 2. Initially I wasn’t too good at it and my character’s backstory was admittedly… bizarre and a bit inconsistent… but I thought it was good enough at the time. Of course people bothered me about it but there were a few nice enough to help me make a better backstory. Eventually I was able to rework my character’s story to what it is now, a lone, honorable mercenary who does jobs for anyone with “coin and a conscience.” It’s generic but interesting enough to get the job done and of course people continued to bother me about it. Some are annoyed by me switching stories, which is understandable, while others hate my character for reasons I do not understand. They hate my character’s habits, my character’s way of talking, my character’s look, everything. Recently, I was RPing with another person and in the session my character said something that was out of line to them in response to something their character said that hit too close to home for him. Of course his honor code demanded that he apologize to them since they didn’t mean to be hurtful but when my character apologized, local chat and map chat blew up with people making fun of my character, telling me I was a pathetic role player, and a multitude of other things I will not repeat. That made it difficult to continue the role play and it was made worse when a role player approached us and (both in and out of character on local chat) continued to insult my role play. I ended up cutting the session with the other person short because of it which saddened them since they were interested in the conversation but there was not much else I could do. Again, I don’t care about what other people say about me or how I do things, but for the sake of those who are on friendly terms with me, I would like some advice on what to do about this.

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Posted by: RoseofGilead.8907

RoseofGilead.8907

Have you tried simply blocking the players who go out of their way to be rude? I realize it’s not the ideal solution, but it can make for a more pleasant environment. I really wouldn’t know what else to suggest, other than reporting anyone who really goes too far with the harassment.

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

I don’t understand why anyone would go out of their way to be nasty about someone else’s RP. I mean, I know they do, I just don’t understand why. I see lots of RP I don’t like, it’s the nature of the beast as everyone has their own tastes. So if I’m in the RP I extricate, if not I don’t commit to plots with that player. Possibly I privately snark to friends outside the game, but not with names attached.

So yes, step one is to block those who prevent RP from being fun for you. Step two is to try to objectively consider what they said. Were they actually dissing you, or trying to give constructive advice? (Which is a bad idea to do unsolicited, but some folks do try to be helpful when they see someone who is, in their opinion, floundering but trying). Step three might be to look in the guild recruitment forum and maybe post a request to join a guild willing to teach. Again, that assumes that you can see anything constructive in what was said to you — if they were just airing a difference of opinion in what valid RP is, then nothing makes them any more right than you.

I have a friend who some time back made an RP guide of sorts. Not at all dictating the “right” way to do it, just giving some pointers for those not yet sure of their preferred style. http://rpmadesimple.com/about-rp-made-simple/sullivan-shaw/

Maybe that will spark some ideas. Or maybe it will be “duh” to you. I have no idea how you RP or how experienced you are, I’m just tossing out some possible resources

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Posted by: AsmrtOtaku.5084

AsmrtOtaku.5084

RoseofGilead,
That’s part of the problem. Normally I block and ignore those people but some of them have gone so far as to bother the people who talk to me to discourage them.

Donari,
Sadly there is nothing constructive about what these people have said to me regarding my character. When my character apologized to the other RPer, people called me a “pu**y” and a “fa**ot.” When someone challenged me to an RP fight one time and I respectfully declined because I needed to log off soon, they called me a “b**ch who’s a failure at life.” Then there are all the racist comments they make because my character is of Canthan descent.

Regardless, I thank both of you for your advice and I’ll look into what I can do.

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Posted by: RoseofGilead.8907

RoseofGilead.8907

If they’re truly using offensive (and racist) language like that, then I’d seriously report them.

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Posted by: Leaa.2943

Leaa.2943

Well thing is there are nothing you can do about it except for either talk to the guy and see if you can reason with them, and if that do not work, then blocking is probably the only option left. Might not be what you want, but then again why should you let other people who really means nothing to you, destroy your fun in game? As you said there are people that simply don’t have all the horses in the stable and have problems understanding that the world do not move around them. This should not be something that you drag your self in too. Report him if it gets to bad and to stalky and/or block them if it is just annoying. It is not likely you will role play with them anyway

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Posted by: Maximus Delion.8719

Maximus Delion.8719

Simple solution:

1. Use /ignore with ruthless abandon.
2. Head over to guildwars2roleplayers.com and find a better group to associate with.

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Posted by: MoarChaos.8320

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I would block or report people right away, reporting only if they are truly breaking gw2 policies of course. You don’t deserve to be put down by anyone, so I would highly recommend doing this actively. If you were doing it in map chat I would probably be bothered, and it’s a bit rude to spam a ton of dialogue at literally everyone in that map.

If it was in /say then more power to you. /say I think is more of street performance ground, and if people don’t like the performance/RPing there’s multiple easy things for them to do to not hear it. Genuinely harassing someone openly in a video game is just tasteless.

I’d mention just using party chat, but I’m pretty positive you’re aware. I also imagine that being forced to use only party chat might be bad since RPers want to attract other RPers.

But yea I would definitely avoid map chat as even if the performance is amazing you’ll only generate negative responses as people don’t like spam of any kind >_< Hope you still have fun RPing with your friends!

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Posted by: Ophidia Moonstone.2587

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Trollish people exist. We either choose to give energy to trollish people or we do not. I do not understand what the norm is for the role playing community since I am not a member of it, but it sounds like it is similar to other parts of the game. Some people are elitist, some people feed their egos by blaming others, some feed their egos by tearing others down. Read any random map chat and you are going to see bad behavior. I had someone call me a called me a “kitten” and said I was “mentally slow”, and basically had a complete meltdown on me because I was in a large charr character and I guess I got in their way in some manner. Being unused to Charrs I thought it might have been something I did, but even if it was there is was no way that anything I had done warranted such horrible behavior. Did I care? No. I only mention it to give you an example of the fact that bad behavior exists.

My advice, take constructive criticism to heart, don’t sweat the uglies. If they weren’t being mean to you, they’d be picking on someone else.