[Jamchop]

(is this topic in the right place?)

...and how they're shunned from RP unless they have a friend who is already playing or do the long-ass grind to Level 60.

Lemme start by saying - this is from MY experiences and what -I- have deduced, interpreted and generally otherwise experienced or seen.
Newer players' characters are disregarded in RP. Completely ignored. I've seen it, I've experienced it.

I stood in Cellsvich square for 4 hours. I was watching videos, playing games, but even I saw how many people walked passed, sat down, RPed, there was even some crazy stuff going down. NONE of it involved me. I didn't do emotes, say anything (except OOC shenanigans) even walk/look around.

I tried the same thing the next day, doing the occasional casual "stretches arms" or "yawns" or "sits down" emote when there were people around. Nothing.

I even tried talking to someone. Yes, -TALKING-. Crazy right? 2 second conversation before their long time "we're basically (meta)buddies irl" showed up. Then I was cast aside.

The point im trying to make is - this game helps new players WITH the game, people tell newer players good places to RP in and when they show up for the RP party the same people don't even include them.

You may be asking (or arguing) but why do you have to be level 60 (or close) to RP? There's no requirement.
Because that one, tiny little tent on the world map called Badlands Arena where all the Level 60s or close have RP pvp that newer players can't have (unless they enjoy being a punching bag).

I could sit next to someone on a chair or something and look like i'm involved and they'd completely ignore me.


You may be thinking :roll: just some newb thinking their opinion is right and how they've done all the made up research like they know how to perform social experiments and to be honest you could be right. It could be just my introvert personality making me too scared to try and engage in a conversation properly, or the fact that im too lazy to make a decent profile (even though I'd say its fine), or even the fact that I lack the energy to edit/draw art for my characters which is giving people a bad impression of me (or that could be me thinking the world revolves around myself).

Maybe i'm just jealous that people are having fun in a completely fair way, that I can't copy or recreate. Maybe i'm just being a dick.