Apollo

Welcome.

Welcome to the madhouse.

As for servers, there are quite a few vanilla servers, but much of the community is focused around modded servers.

There are a few modern popular mods, like Discovery, that are very RP focused. I personally like 88 Flak as a vanilla enhancement.

most servers by now support pvp, as fighting npc’s is much boring. some RP servers, though, limit attacks on traders by their rules. anyway, welcome to The Starport!

Welcome!

Bit late, but welcome to the Starport m8.
As for servers, tough one I think. There are only a few servers where real RP is played - most servers are something in between (basic) RP and PvP nowadays. Truth is that playing RP takes effort and most people prefer to pick a role that guarantees action without too much fuzz; they become pirates or another kind of criminal.

Reading your preferences, I would look for a server where there is a balance between the two. Where players don’t just chase other players around the mod all the time, but actually put some effort into RP interaction. For me personally, this has proven to be the most fun. Have a look at several servers, and allow yourself some time to get to know the atmosphere and the way players play the game there. Although asking for advise is always helpful, in the end it’s always best to form your own opinion about it.

Good luck m8.

Maverick wrote:
As for servers, tough one I think. There are only a few servers where real RP is played - most servers are something in between (basic) RP and PvP nowadays.

Because RP and PvP are mutually exclusive, right? Oh, wait…

=Alex= wrote:

Maverick wrote:
As for servers, tough one I think. There are only a few servers where real RP is played - most servers are something in between (basic) RP and PvP nowadays.

Because RP and PvP are mutually exclusive, right? Oh, wait…

Not sure if I understand what you mean there. If you think that the two cannot be combined - then I beg to differ. Actually, PvP is a quite common result of RP. Let’s take a simple example: A pirate demands a trader vessel to pay him taxes in return for his save travel through pirate dominated space. This is RP. The trader refuses, and because his freighter is quite decently equipped, he takes his chances and engages in battle with the pirate - PvP.

Apart from the more immersive RP, the difference between PvP and basic RP as described above is (as far as I have seen) most of the times just a simple piece of RP chatter between the two parties. And this is left out most of the times, because there is no action in chatter and most players just prefer to have action. They skip the RP part and go straight for the PvP.

The sarcasm was rather apparent in Alex’s reply, Maverick

It’s just that a lot of players seem to think everyone can (and therefore must) either be slotted in the “PvP jockey” category or the “pacifist RP’er” one. That’s just a false dichotomy.

Maverick wrote:

=Alex= wrote:

Maverick wrote:
As for servers, tough one I think. There are only a few servers where real RP is played - most servers are something in between (basic) RP and PvP nowadays.

Because RP and PvP are mutually exclusive, right? Oh, wait…

Not sure if I understand what you mean there. If you think that the two cannot be combined - then I beg to differ. Actually, PvP is a quite common result of RP. Let’s take a simple example: A pirate demands a trader vessel to pay him taxes in return for his save travel through pirate dominated space. This is RP. The trader refuses, and because his freighter is quite decently equipped, he takes his chances and engages in battle with the pirate - PvP.

Apart from the more immersive RP, the difference between PvP and basic RP as described above is (as far as I have seen) most of the times just a simple piece of RP chatter between the two parties. And this is left out most of the times, because there is no action in chatter and most players just prefer to have action. They skip the RP part and go straight for the PvP.

No, that’s not what I think. Also, you missed a part about PvP being in role play a lot of the time on RP servers. In that situation you’re not immediately out of role play as soon as you start shooting each other.

Protip: When playing on RP server, assume everyone you meet is Roleplaying.

You’d be surprised sometimes how fitting these ‘PvP jockeys’ can be in the role of a pirate.

And FF, though I agree it’s bad to slot everyone into those groups, it’s certainly not wrong that a lot of people can be.

I would probably be classed as the latter, simply because I generally attempt to find a peaceful resolution (of course dependent on my character… Which are usually traders, so ) and only engage in battle if necessary. Not only does it mesh with the RP of the character(s), it’s also a bit of help on them metagame given I suck at combat.

It’s certainly a hot topic in regards to Freelancer.

And I think I forgot to say hi in my last post, so welcome to the 'port!