Jumpgate Evolution

I'm one of the (few?) guys who still knows what the last three letters in MMORPG stands for.

When I first started playing these games (Project Entropia was my first, iirc) I thought, or rather took for granted, that the RP was a natural part of the gameplay and that everyone in the gameworld wanted to contribute to the RP-atmosphere.

Sadly... I learned that this was not the case. But still, back in the days RP wasn't looked down and frowned upon.

But then came WoW into the picture and brought everyone (including your mom) into our beloved alternate universe.

No I don't play WoW anymore and no I'm no hardcore-roleplayer. I just don't want to constantly run in to things which doesn't belong in the gameworld. These things are being added by the so called "LoLers".

So... if we can say that WoW brought LoLers to MMORPGs. I think it would be a fair statement to say that LoLers will play new cool MMORPGs which still awaits to be released.

JGE is one of them! 

With a "skill-oriented" tendency (which originally is a good thing imo) and (maybe) no avatars which would jack up the immersion if they were there. I fear that JGE will become flooded with immersionbreaking, reallife-referenced and LoLing crap everywhere.

Any thoughts or opinions?

I think WoW helped bring LoLers if by LoLers you mean, rude jerks who are selfish, and overall 8 yr old pricks whose b@lls have not dropped, than ya, WoW helped.. but i have seen this in a general since i played ultima when it was only like 2 yrs old. I just think as the times change, the more the MMO worlds degrade, kinda like real life trends.

While the extent at which I've partaken in roleplay has varied over the years, I understand your concerns.  Online communities in general, not just WoW, have been mentally backsliding. 

EVE for example, is a game of fairly decent complexity and requires you to have a functioning cortex.  However even very deep games such as this have become plagued by people that believe "lol" or "pwn3d" is part of sentence structure. 

 Why is this happening?  Im not totally sure.  It could be as simple as users / MMO players starting out younger  these days...  Or it may not have to do with age at all, but the gerneral immature behavior pattern which is becomming all too common when your anonymous on the internet.

 Im looking forward to JGE, and like the OP I hope the community doesnt turn into a flaming wreck.

MMO's are becoming more mainstream and so you are gonna get a wide swath of humanity.  I don't think WOW in particular is to blame so much as society in general.  Impulse control and good manners seem out of fashion in todays world.

For instance, 20 years ago I would have never heard a person in a major dept. store cursing, dropping the f-bomb, much less using the n-word.  Now such things, atleast where I live, are common place.

I see young guys walking down the street with their baggy pants hanging so low I can see their mid butt crack.  Kinda wierd...but okay whatever.  Or large busted women wearing sheer tank tops without bras and you can see their nipples through the fabric.  Or guys walking down the street tugging on their penises through their pants.

A great many people seem to have forgotten how to dress, how to act, how to even speak respectfully in public.  Or maybe it's not that they have forgotten, but rather that it has become out of fashion to have consideration for your fellow man. 

So is it any wonder some people log in to a virutal world, essentially anonymous, and behave inappropriately.

I only know that Jumpgate Classic was heavly on Player run RP. And community never looked down on RP.

If the game will bring lolers or whatever, sure.. but its up to the community to decide what kind of game it will be. 

KOS lists are what kept away most idiots.

Judging from its own forum community,  JGE will be plagued by lolcopters. Coupled with the fact that developers are almost not trying to add no roleplay elements to the game. It is hard to believe that JGE will provide any serious RP opportunity , let alone attract such crowd.

Coupled with heavy PVP elements , that always bring the worst crowd , and twitch based action system

I can safely say that JGE will be hell for roleplayer

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Just as a note Eraser mentioned RP player groups. This means nothing. Every MMO has a handfull of organised roleplayers. Heck! I even seen organized roleplay in Guild Wars.

Take LOTRO roleplay server. Write LOL in general chat , and you will be shunned and booed. Have unapropriate name , you will be reported in mater of minutes. Almost everybody you come across is roleplaying. And there is always intensive roleplay in Bree , around the clock.

That is roleplay

There was some Amazing RP on the original JGC game back in the day, and it will be safe to say the will some amazing RP going on in JGE (just make sure you pick the right server)

I would give examples but really you would have to have been there to experiance truely, my explaining of events would not give the player-run-GM-helped-ever-changing style RP that happened in JGC any justice

All i can say is, just like ANY other MMORPG u have to find the like-minded (RP'er/PvP'er/PvE'er) people to interact with.

And that was the beauty of JGC, was the fact that for better or worse we were all together, which made the game way more.. intresting.

I bet there was some awesome RP moments in JGC , as there will be in JGE ( i will be there to try and attribute to that)

But lets not lie to ourselves. JGE will not be the roleplayer choice. And you will probably encounter "LOL" in chat on daily basis

Maybe if you treat l33tsp33k as a language of the future, it won't be so bad.

Just pretend everyone is a n00b mercenary from planet Lolrofl-69 and you'll be in RP heaven.  

One feature that I hope is in the loop is an infinite ignore file.