Something I've Noticed About Rpers

Okay, since when is having the Force considered godmodding? It's just a perk that that particular character has that that Agent and Bounty Hunter doesn't 9 times out of 10

I believe that was more directed at the bad kind of Sith RPer than at Sith in general. The class seems to attract a certain kind of players...

This is a misfire of Rock, Paper, Scissors. He chose Sith because he wanted to play that he is in charge and you are messing that up. My advice would be to find some RPers who don't all have to be the main character.

A play or Movie with everyone trying to be the lead role would be terrible, and guess what, player role-play that does that sucks too.

It's that awkward moment when the irresistible force meets an immovable object, and realize they can't actually affect each other: a pregnant pause and then someone pretends to lose, or lead actor #3 comes in for a deus ex machina.

There are only 2 sides to this story:

1. The storyline, which is unique to the individual. Sure, you have thousands of individuals doing the same thing, but it is treated and you should treat is as a "solo vacuum", with no impact on anything but your toon.

2. What backstory you make for your toon afterwards, or parallel to the story - as some said, "Drone #90327" or "Agent #8709287 dash five", because that`s the ONLY option, with thousands of competing clones and see your character based on what she/he can do.

Sure, again, like some said, nobody wants to roleplay "simply one more agent", so, you end up with broken from reality folks that are ok with 528374704293 Emperor Wraths only it can only be one, but they start yelling and throwing tantrums when you don`t respect clothing canon - the irony.
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I mean, let`s face it. How many were in a previous life simple regular soldiers or housewives? They were ONLY Napoleon Bonapartes and Jeanne D`Arcs!

I find it amusing that you can see clear parallels between awful Sith and awful roleplayers. In either case it's the powerhungry, reckless, over-confident ones that waltz around like they own the place and fall victim to their own megalomania while the world laughs at them... but the ones that are clever, reserved and know what they're doing actually persevere and are acknowledged by their peers.

It's more that every tom, dick and harry who plays a sith is also not only a Darth but the long lost son of the emperor with near-infinite power or some other insanely powerful thing like that.
Rarely does one meet a sith who isn't at least a Darth, if not more.
But if you do, you should add them to your friendslist because THOSE are the really good roleplayers. The ones that don't have to be the super powerful ultramaster to satisfy their own needs to be the Hero/Villain of the world.

I think it's mainly everyone does the exact same story. Whether they choose all light, all dark, or a combo or both. You're still the major bad *** of the galaxy who came to chew gum and kick *** and you're fresh out of gum. The RPers, whether good or bad, need to make SOMETHING up to be unique. Because all agents are , all sith warriors are , etc.

So no two agents, or jedi, or bounty hunters will be the same.

Man, I wish my husband had picked a damn RP server instead of a regular PVE server. I have too many toons to transfer and no one toon can be alone on another server. All 22 of them would have to transfer at about $15 a pop and I ain't doing that.

You pretty much nailed it. RP should be pretty much like SWG, where you played Joe, the famer and not Superman, Cipher Nine.

The only way to RP in this game is to go as far away from the official storyline as possible. But those players are rare. 99% just want to be Ze Emporer, Dath Wador and Muster Joda.

You've discovered the problem in every RP setting ever. Everyone wants to be special in some way, which leads to Bounty Hunters complaining loudly about the Empire while surrounded by Sith Lords ON VAIKEN SPACE DOCK.

Find a guild or people who aren't stupid to RP with. I've RPed in several other games, and the problem is not exclusive to TOR. Everyone wants to be a main character and few people want to be subordinate to someone else even if it makes sense.

powergamers have always been a problem in any roleplaying community.

Thing is, flawless characters are boring.. and these people simply dont seem to understand that its a MULTIPLAYER game.. you play the game together with others so if you want to roleplay, think very well about how entertaining your character would be to others.

To me, a cripple old beggar is much more interesting than some powerfull flawless god.

Of course pretty much everyone wants to play a character that is competent, but I'd say give your character a field of expertise. Give them strenghts as well as weaknesses. They can't be competent in everything, thats boring.

Personly, I took a different direction with my imperial agent.

He is one of the few non force sensitives born into a sith family. But this gave him a strong determination to prove himself to his father, which he did. He's an expert sniper and is valued by his family, which he directly serves.
Which means he answers to his own relatives who respect him, and not to other sith or the imperial millitairy
HOWEVER, he is very respectfull to other sith and to the imperial millitairy. He respects their ranks and adresses everyone properly, but has the right to decline orders since hes under the command of other Sith.
He'd be fine with some orders, like simply offering assistance where needed to fellow imperials.
More the basic orders so to speak.