Poll: Roleplaying and XXX

[Fallen]

As I have been in Perma-XXX due to my limited playtime I decided to create a poll to see other's thoughts on the matter.


Do you roleplay during XXX? If you have thoughts on the matter, please do post them.

[Fallen]

As for myself, I find it difficult justifying going out of my way to roleplay during XXX as it is so wasteful in terms of gains to not maximize the Gift of Lumnis. However, i've found my time so limited of late that I wont have time otherwise to play. If all I ever do is just hunt off my XXX each week I will likely lose interest in the game.

I suppose for people with a ton of characters, it really doesn't matter to them as they will almost always be on XXX with their time split amongst multiple personas. That is one problem I dont have.

[Xaerve]

This thread disappointed.

Edit: I thought it was going to be some juicy copy/pastes of some back-alley roleplaying.

[Celephais]

Thankfully XXX doesn't "tick" away when you don't have exp in your head, so you don't have to worry about wasting it there, and in my experience the actual difference in exp lost during those 6 hours if you focus real hard on exp vs casually exp is minor... especially if you're always on XXX you would be able to "make up" for the lost exp very quickly.

I don't think it's enough to actually make me turn down a good oppurtunity to have fun. That said I rarely role-play anyway, but that's because I don't come across many opportunities lately (nor do I actively pursue making my own opportunities, I've been too haphazard w/ time lately... I'll play a lot, then I have no time for a month... makes it hard to maintain connections)

[Fallen]

Hah! I suppose I can change it to Roleplay and the Gift of Lumnis, but I bet most people wont know what the fuck that means.

[Fallen]

Thankfully XXX doesn't "tick" away when you don't have exp in your head, so you don't have to worry about wasting it there, and in my experience the actual difference in exp lost during those 6 hours if you focus real hard on exp vs casually exp is minor... especially if you're always on XXX you would be able to "make up" for the lost exp very quickly.

Well, I prefer to stay Saturated on a node, then fried on the hunt between bounty tasks to maximize the gift. Dropping below that to bell out is something I would consider wasteful. As you said, the difference may be minor, but when you're used to trying to make gains on normal EXP absorption, it gets rather painful to see any EXP modifier squandered.

[Celephais]

I understand what you're saying, I wasn't advocating "dropping down to belled" but realistically the difference in exp absorbtion from saturated to belled is extremely minimal... same with node/town absorbtion. And if you consider that all the time that you do get to play (within this window of business) you will be on lumnis, so "making up" for the exp is accelerated as well. You're looking at a 10-20% time to recover for your lost exp, as little as 15 minutes extra playing and you've made up for it. At worst if you role-played throughout XXX and then had to "make up" for it off of the gift, you'll need to play an additional 2-3 hours.

Normally I'm all business when it comes to mechanics and exp and the like in GS, but the diminishing returns on "playing hard" just don't make it worth it, when you could just fry, go to a table and afk while you cook dinner.

[Fallen]

Well stated, Celephais. Good food for thought.

[grapedog]

I don't waste my triple X because I can blow through 20k easily while it takes me much longer when not gifted. I don't try and avoid RP, but I definetaly focus on hunting and resting. If the E Tower was busier, or more consistant, I might stick around there while triple X'd for the RP and socialization...but it's too hit or miss and I can't stand to waste a bonus if I have one. I'm not close to capped at all, and there was no Triple X when I used to play, so it's nice going through the levels a little bit quicker now...or at least it seems so.

My non gifted time I use for guild work(rogue), RP, exploring new areas, and just hanging around...as well as hunting obviously.

[Fallen]

I will try to be around the Fountain more for roleplay. Where there is one, there will be more.

[Drew]

I try to but it does stick in the back of my mind a bit. Mostly it's just trying to stay on node, used to be I hated to let my mind empty because those lower levels of exp are a complete waste but now I don't really care as long as I stay on node.

[grapedog]

I try to but it does stick in the back of my mind a bit. Mostly it's just trying to stay on node, used to be I hated to let my mind empty because those lower levels of exp are a complete waste but now I don't really care as long as I stay on node.

What do you mean about the lower levels being a waste? All things being equal, the cap for how much you can hold is 1000 right? I know the middle point is a bit off, but you should still get 500 out of 1000 roughly going from Muddled to Bell'd. Seems to me that Muddled really is the middle of the road, since you have C, F&C and Bell on the other side.

[Elvenlady]

Given the limited amount of time I get to play these days, my high-end girls are permanently on 3x so I don't even give it any thought and just wake them up to RP with their friends. If I get a hunt in and a saturated mind at the same it's a bonus.

[The Ponzzz]

I try to make my XXX every week be the one and only time I hunt for 6 hours with not much interactions. But as of lately, I haven't even bothered to burn off my XXX.

[Deathravin]

I've been working on rogue's guild most of the time, so my XXXs drop away pretty quickly (all that 10 xp here 10 xp there really gets rid of it fast). I don't see any reason NOT to RP during it. I've never been a 'hurry up and level' type of guy. When I am, it's usually for some character-driven reason (like I want to be higher level because my character will be able to participate in higher level events) rather than just being a higher level to be a higher level.

That's pretty evident in the fact my characters were all copied over from AOL and one is 56, one is 42 and the other is 19. And when I do level its usually scripted (not AFK) and engineered to be the easiest XP possible. To me the game is 90% complex chat room with 10% video game.


btw... XXX is a horrible shortening for the 'gift of lumunis' or whatever it's really called... I had a completely different idea of what this thread was about LOL.

[Sthrockmorton]

It's easy for me to say I roleplay during triple X, cause all I do lately for exp is bounty escorts, which I reap the rewards of when I return to town and have an hour until the exp from being saturated wears off... In icemule, its too easy to get wrapped up in convo's, fights, and general fun in TC.

[Stanley Burrell]

I've always upheld my live action GemStoning with other members of the database during The Lumnis Cycle, with the exception of usually hunting way more reclusively.

I get a lil' leery when offered a join-up or if my XXX kicks in during a group hunt, heh.

Edited for: I haven't ever really gotten fazed resting/not resting at a node or socializing past the point of belled. It's just exclusively when I do go out for a hunt that I get a bit more rough around the RP edges, heh.

[Fallen]

It's easy for me to say I roleplay during triple X, cause all I do lately for exp is bounty escorts, which I reap the rewards of when I return to town and have an hour until the exp from being saturated wears off... In icemule, its too easy to get wrapped up in convo's, fights, and general fun in TC.

You have a full hour of saturation from a bounty task? I mean before you drop from Saturated to fried.

[Fallen]

It is interesting to see that people are split fairly down the middle.

[StrayRogue]

Well, I prefer to stay Saturated on a node, then fried on the hunt between bounty tasks to maximize the gift. Dropping below that to bell out is something I would consider wasteful. As you said, the difference may be minor, but when you're used to trying to make gains on normal EXP absorption, it gets rather painful to see any EXP modifier squandered.


Yes it's wasteful to have any exp in your head at all unless you're fried or saturated, or at least near full. This is why I would ignore everyone during those hours.

[Jolena]

I've found that more and more lately, I don't concern myself as much with completing a Lumnis gift if I have roleplay to engage in. I think its because as I gained higher levels, it wasn't near as important to me to level, level, level. At least with Jolena. With my empath, I'm still in gain gain gain mode.

[TheEschaton]

I've gotten into a purely hunting mode on XXX, and since I have so many characters I actually like to play, I'm never off XXX. It's merely a measure of how many XXX cycles I can get through in a week before the first resets. Right now, I tend to make it through my first two characters.

My main priest (who I bumped up to my number one exp-gainer) has gotten 3 levels in the past month. Considering I took 10 years to get the first 53, I'm tearing shit up. But my RP is completely gone. If I RP, I wait til I'm belled, and then make sure I don't do any exp-gaining activity during the RP.

-theE-

[Celephais]

It's funny how something meant to take tedium away from the game is actually making it so people don't bother with the things that aren't tedius. We're all just so used to shitty exp gains that it'd be a sin to waste lumnis.

[grapedog]

It's funny how something meant to take tedium away from the game is actually making it so people don't bother with the things that aren't tedius. We're all just so used to shitty exp gains that it'd be a sin to waste lumnis.


Thats essentially it...

Though you could look at it another way...people hunt hard for 6 hours...then they may not feel the same pressure the rest of the week to burn through hunting. It might provide them more incentive to RP since they've gotten a nice chunk of EXP already and they can kind of lay back...they may even want to after 6 hours of grinding.

[Stunseed]

I separate myself for a few hours on my days off from the job. So I'll hunt one afternoon, then RP 3-4 days, then hunt the rest off.

[Ignot]

I just stay saturated all the time doing bounty tasks weather im XXX or not. Then again, i don't really roleplay.

[Some Guy]

I never roleplay but that's because I don't really give a shit. I try to limit my interaction with people as much as possible.

probably why i don't play very much

[thefarmer]

When I first came back from an extended break, someone told me about the 'Gift' and how it was 3x absorption.

I replied with, "Wow. We get a porn bonus each week?"

[Akari]

It's kinda funny that I didn't even realize it until I read this post, but for about the last 3 months I haven't even paid much attention to my XXX... I've gotten so caught up in RP that I no longer care how much, or when I'm learning. If I do notice that I still have my XXX and it's about to start again, I'll try to hunt a few times to get through it... but that's about the extent of it.
I guess it also has to do with the fact that at 76 trains I can enter any hunting ground in the game, and with exception of the Teras temple I can hunt any of them solo and somewhat effectively.
I guess I'm just in no hurry to cap as there will be very little to look forward to at that point... So, exp gain is the last thing on my mind... I'm actually having more fun playing GS now then I ever have. I was really getting burnt out with power hunting just to get to the train to be able to enter the next hunting ground. Now that I'm not worried about it, I've still trained a few times, it's just been slow... does't matter to me, as long as I'm having fun

[Ignot]

It's kinda funny that I didn't even realize it until I read this post, but for about the last 3 months I haven't even paid much attention to my XXX... I've gotten so caught up in RP that I no longer care how much, or when I'm learning. If I do notice that I still have my XXX and it's about to start again, I'll try to hunt a few times to get through it... but that's about the extent of it.
I guess it also has to do with the fact that at 76 trains I can enter any hunting ground in the game, and with exception of the Teras temple I can hunt any of them solo and somewhat effectively.
I guess I'm just in no hurry to cap as there will be very little to look forward to at that point... So, exp gain is the last thing on my mind... I'm actually having more fun playing GS now then I ever have. I was really getting burnt out with power hunting just to get to the train to be able to enter the next hunting ground. Now that I'm not worried about it, I've still trained a few times, it's just been slow... does't matter to me, as long as I'm having fun

Your one a dem filthy roleplayers arent ya? Shame on you.

[Drisco]

I agree with Akari at lvl 78 I don't think capping is that important. I think as you get older capping becomes less and less important.

[Fallen]

Hah. Until you hit 95, and it is all you can think about.