Guild Wars 2

From the oc whispers I received it was clear that they knew that their presence affected the event. But they figured that since many places are affected by events, they decided not to bother to pick a safe place.

I don’t have an actual log. I did start along the lines of ‘krait are attacking the city and you’re all sitting here, not giving a hand?’ in reaction of a few whispers I got I clarified that I was roleplaying, and comtinued my efforts to do so.

I am a roleplayer too, though I don’t do much of it in guildwars. But I know how to do it.

Thryck – If you are right, the event is actuaally designed to be hard.
Just to clarify though, I never asked the roleplayers to actually leave. I just roleplayed how my character was saying that if villagers are abducted, ‘we heroes’ should make a stand and fight the villains.
So even if you’d be correct and they had no impact, I did try to roleplay in a normal and constructuve manner (I do have plenty of experience there myself!). To have people turns away an attempt to join the roleplay hurts.

Sin – I really don’t want to dictate how and where people should play. But what if it ruins the fun of others? If they don’t want to participate in an event, why sit in a place of which they know beforehand that events keep popping up?

Where is the line between me being allowed to request others to move away, and people deciding to undertake actions which make the game unfun for others?

Today my friend and I saw a dynamic event pop up where Krait would enter a small fishing village, enslave people and try to get away with it. We joined in, but it was very difficult. The enemies spawned faster than we could handle them! We died, but a few more players joined and we barely won the event.

We wondered if the event had been designed to be that hard, and I noticed a lot of chatter going on in the ‘say’ channel. It appeared that a large group of players (about 10 of them) were sitting inside a building and roleplaying. They were close enough to count for the difficulty of the event, but safely tucked away so that the enemies didn’t actually bother them.

Now that isn’t very nice – they knew their presence caused the event to be much harder. I decided to handle it in their style; by rp. So I roleplayed how my character entered the bar being upset, and asked why they didn’t step in to help. No foul or strong language, just normal roleplay.
They completely ignored me, save some remarks like ((ignore the troll)) and ((we’re roleplaying)). I continued a bit, hoping it would be clear that I was roleplaying too. They continued to ignore more/send me whispers not to bother them cause they were roleplaying/making jokes oc on how to ignore me.

Dear people, don’t be that roleplayer. Don’t be an elitist about roleplaying. Be considerate towards other players. I know that many hubs have regular events, but there are a few without events (like the main cities). Pick those places to drink your roleplay-ale. And when people try to give feedback in a polite in-character way, don’t be jerks and make troll jokes. You want to be a good roleplayer? React to the world, and react to other people who try to roleplay along.