05-01-2016, 12:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2016, 12:11 AM by Darth_Slaverus.)
Bit of a necro, but man, this thread makes me feel old, even though the oldest days of FEP were way past my time. I still look back fondly on the time I spent RPing on FEP during the days of RL and Sky Gen 2... Being a teenager with an overactive imagination was great. I miss playing as Cassandra, Raphael, and Aurora. Maybe even Everal.
Getting back on topic, I did all sorts of crazy things in both RL and Sky 2, that I would do again in a heartbeat. Between fighting wireframe statues of the Greil Mercenaries and hacking down chandeliers by throwing greatswords at them while pilfering Oliver's tomb in Treasure is a Mad Mistress (My first completed RP and one of my all-time favourites), rescuing an obviously guilty child-assassin from prison on the assumption she was blameless in To Redeem a Murderer, and being one of the few beorc characters to slay a dragon laguz in RL during Border Enforcement, there are so many good memories I'll always treasure.
I even got a C support in the end, after years of D supports.
Anyway, I'll try not to be consumed by my own nostalgia. I hope everyone I met and played with on FEP that I haven't been able to keep in contact with is doing well in their lives, and feel free to drop me a line if you ever wanna reminisce about the good old days.
~Darth
Quote:Radiance Lost was super cliquey. Somehow, much moreso than Sky, despite Sky having like... been seemingly intentionally designed to create cliques, what with Flaming Journeys and Advanced RPs. I think it might have had something to do with the nation leader structure breeding a small group of members beyond the mod team who had a lot more power and agency over the setting than other members did -- we were kind of clannish, and our lore and storylines got super impenetrable, so... it makes sense that other members would also create their own little groups so they could have people to consistently RP with too.Speaking as someone who was new to FEP when RL was in full swing, I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I can't speak to Sky's first gen, but for RL it felt to me like you had to "break-in" to a clique, or else you were stuck scavenging for RPs. From what I remember, newer members who joined roughly around the same time tended to form their own groups because of that. Mind you, I don't think most of the vets were being intentionally elitist or anything like that. It's just, once characters formed a bond with others, it was natural to want to develop that bond further, which leaves less room for new relationships. The cliques, I felt, were an unfortunate side-effect. I wouldn't be surprised if RL's subjective grading of character profiles played a part, too. In Sky, there was a lot more parity among new characters, since everyone was level 1. RL was all over the place in that regard, and despite initially liking the greater possible range of levels, I feel like RL's grading system was... vulnerable to bias, and encouraged people to write absurdly long profiles.
Getting back on topic, I did all sorts of crazy things in both RL and Sky 2, that I would do again in a heartbeat. Between fighting wireframe statues of the Greil Mercenaries and hacking down chandeliers by throwing greatswords at them while pilfering Oliver's tomb in Treasure is a Mad Mistress (My first completed RP and one of my all-time favourites), rescuing an obviously guilty child-assassin from prison on the assumption she was blameless in To Redeem a Murderer, and being one of the few beorc characters to slay a dragon laguz in RL during Border Enforcement, there are so many good memories I'll always treasure.
I even got a C support in the end, after years of D supports.
Anyway, I'll try not to be consumed by my own nostalgia. I hope everyone I met and played with on FEP that I haven't been able to keep in contact with is doing well in their lives, and feel free to drop me a line if you ever wanna reminisce about the good old days.
~Darth