What's up with the non-RP names in RP-servers?

I'm not the one to judge on 'silly' names, but I do report 'unacceptable' names. names that are not within the lines of name-policy. and the game .does. have one. it's just not a specific one for rp-servers. rp is not 'enforced'.

why it's not working in this game? easy enough, because this game doesn't exactly cater to the same kind of mmo-player as say... lotro (to my European friends, the original US-server didn't have any RP-servers, but there was one were rp is 'encouraged'.... it worked)

this game has always had a problem of drawing in trolls, for whatever reason. probably for the same reason why people love to hate TOR. we'll never know.

silly names make it easier for me to decide whom not to engage with. sooner or later they disappear anyway (I just wish the ignore list had an option to see why/when I added someone.. sigh)

Hell I'd like to see actual names instead dumb and retarded ones. So tired of this crap, we didn't have this before it was F2P. Now we have little kids naming their characters by whatever and we have credit sellers.

That is what you get for typing in the barrens chat.

Kinda shame really. Noticed myself not in a RP kinda way but a lack of mature players on the only EU RP server. If you ever ask anything you get trolled really hard.

They arent really RP servers anymore, there tends to be little RP compared to what their was, the names and the guilds there arent there for RP .
With little care shown by the developers towards it reflects on the community.

I rolled on a RP server for the mature playerbase. In every MMO I've played I've always found the community to be far more helpful and useful on an RP server. I personally do not or very rarely RP myself but I am friends with many of those who do on my server. My character name may not fit within the "norm" of RPing but the way I RP with it is no different then the way a person with a normal name might.

I've only had one small issue on my server in regards to my character name and it was evenly smoothed over with Customer Service. You might be named "Captain Thoern Tyner" and I might be named "Jedi Consular Trainer". You might RP as a nefarious smuggler who lost both his parents in an Imperial assault on Ilum and I might RP as a helpful NPC that enjoys assisting new players on their missions. Maybe that's how I enjoy the game? Who are you to decide?

I enjoy playing on Begeren Colony and I respect the RPers there. I will never attempt to troll, interfere, or be an outright annoyance to them. They are the very community of people I rolled on the server to be around. Mature players who are not filling chat with random gibberish and spam posts and are not incessantly trying to troll new players who ask questions in General Chat. I have the utmost respect for the RPers on my server and always will.

I like my character name and I appreciate that the old school RPers on my server have accepted me and I cherish the fact we get along well and are continually building a thriving community for those to come.

I don't know anyone's name until they introduce themselves (Nameplates off) and if their name seems a little bizarre I put it down to a nickname or an alien naming convention. Players have control over what they allow to break their immersion, role-players in particular.

I was in a Cantina last night listening to some anal RPer (light side) tell another RPer (dark side) that they can't talk about 'Master and Apprentices' as the (("Rule of Two hasn't been implemented in the era of TOR")). Good gods, crap like that is far more immersion breaking than coming across a character who goes by the moniker 'TheFlasher'. So from one RPer to another, can I say 'get over yourself'.

I used to rp and found it quite fun at times. I don't do it anymore, but what I can't understand, is why do people have to be so mean, and spoil the fun for people who like to rp? Why not just respect that they rp and let them be? Why deliberately antagonize them? I've seen several posts on here from people that are now going to deliberately bother the rp crowd by making stupid names.

I blame Bioware/EA for this. Why have a distinction if you're not going to enforce it. Just..why bother. Have pve and pvp then. Only have RP, if you plan on putting on a naming policy and rules to support the people who are role playing.

I just can't see why people have fun ruining other people's fun. If you want to ruin someone's day, go play on a pvp server. They kill each other for that kind of crap all the time. And they like it.

Its a mindset Luna

Its no different then the idiots that get to max level and then go gank level 10s in the older MMORPGs
Its no different then the hoardes of morons in Ultima Online that exploited bugs to break into peoples houses and rob them blind.

Some people are unable to feel good about themselves unless they are ruining everything for someone else.

Yes its childish and moronic

And sadly on the internet where everyone acts like they indestructable and 7'2" and 400lbs, its even worse.

For the most part you just put the people on ignore and move on.
Sadly for those still on the imaginary RP servers of TOR, the letters RP actually attract the bottom feeder crowd.

But hey, its not like anyone forwarned EA about this in closed beta, when the discussion of servers came up.

Oh wait, thats right, we did!

I also hate the stupid names people come up with but I don't understand why anyone would make such a big deal about it. There is no naming policy. Why waste your time reporting non-RPish names??

My advice is to just play the game and have fun. Turn off the nameplate as someone else suggested. Ignore the people you find offensive.

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