PvE vs RP and some musings.

[Roane]

I briefly poked my head onto a RP server once.  I made a female character for some reason (I think about 25% of my chars are female), and a whole pile of 'hats decided that RP meant coming on to me.  Hopefully it gets better outside of the n00b areas, but I was scarred enough to move that char to a PvE (where I can be twinked by a RL friend). 

It might have been that high population of 'hats was a result of the terrible 20 being down, I think that was my reason for rerolling.
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In my experience, there is a subclass of RPers that think RP means RPing hooking up, or RPing relationships and marriage. It's always been this way, since way back in the days when I RPed in the FFGF on AOL. I think you learn to ignore these people just like you learn to ignore the other things you don't like (like people who can't string two correctly spelled non-shortened words together on the PvE servers).


In response to the thread as a whole, I prefer RP servers. I agree that the population is generally more mature. You've all seen me rave about the Cenarion Circle Horde community before. (They're really exceptional.) I'm constantly torn when I play, because I am, really, a shy person and though I like the overall community on RP servers more, I like having a group of people that I'm familiar enough with (Lurkers) that I'm comfortable asking for help with quests, etc.