I highly recommend looking into various CHE's for a sense of community in Prime. In my experiences, you can find whatever level of social experience you might want...from high-quality RP to whisper ooc group omg my day was awful, i need to vent. I rarely hunt anymore for a variety of reasons, so social time is pretty much my bread and butter...and Sylvanfair is certainly full of a great mix of people and personalities that have kept me well-roped into Elanthia. If you want people to hunt with, you'll find some. If you want people to do guild reps with (for Liskey, obviously), we've got enough rogues out the wazoo. If you want people to shoot the whispering winds with, you'll find them.

Obviously I'm biased towards one in particular, and I will try to lure you accordingly. You have been warned, and you know where to find us!

The L behind the Laphrael

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a shoe.
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I know you said you weren't interested in Plat, but I can't help myself.

<<Anyone have any suggestions for better places to be social, or anyone able to comment on the populations of shattered and plat?>>

I'd played Plat about 5 years ago and recently came back, only to find myself thoroughly addicted to it. The population has declined somewhat, though not very sharply, since I last played, and many of the people I remember are still there.

I noticed in your post that you're having troubles finding people to talk to. I would suggest that the size of the population might not be as much of a factor if you find people you can interact with. In Prime, I spent a lot of time alone or with the same people. That actually changed with Plat, where the people there led me to get out and make new acquaintances. I'd venture to say that even though I know many people in Prime, I have more actual friends in Plat. I know people in far more depth here and the roleplay is much easier to come by, especially with portals to let me travel to any town and a global amulet to keep in constant contact.

Starting over is difficult, to be sure. Going from 90's in level to upper 20's when I returned in February required that I completely rethink how I played, even though the characters were extremely similar in concept and training. However, I should point out that there are far fewer people in Plat who are higher level. There's a far more even spread in levels and for many people here, level just doesn't seem to matter to RP. In fact, the GMs will create storylines and invasions with aspects that anyone can grab onto, regardless of level. With the trials, you'll have a lot of people of lower level and the players and GMs have made efforts specifically to welcome everyone and get them involved. Even without the trials, however, we do what we can to help you get started.

.... So, I'm babbling. I guess what I can say is that while the low population and starting over may not seem very appealing, they might not be so bad. I like the feeling of knowing everyone, and I look forward to meeting new people when they come around.

Gretchen

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Laffie I'm always stalking you, it's a hobby of mine.

The other night in Solhaven, I was not really interested in staying in Solhaven at the moment, I didn't notice that I sorta barged in on 2 folks in deep discussion about something. I was just trying to help out that sorta lost sorta slow guy who was nice and only looking for trouble in the form of 3 omnious letters. See, missing moments is always so easy. I think my problem has been being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I need to get myself more involved in the community I suppose.

Im seriously considering joining plat, I want to stay in prime a little bit longer because I'm having too much fun with my regular two and I have plans, BIG plans with'em. Are there enough empaths in plat, or a serious lack of clerics? I think I would start a whole new class if I did join the plat server.

Oh, and my email, yeah I gotta get my coke bottle bottoms attached to wire arms hovering over my face up to date. Stupid typo, it's fixed now. If you see my girls moping around sad and lonely, bother them! They love it!

~Ayamei

<<Im seriously considering joining plat, I want to stay in prime a little bit longer because I'm having too much fun with my regular two and I have plans, BIG plans with'em. Are there enough empaths in plat, or a serious lack of clerics?

Sounds like you need to visit the Rest. ;) Come on down and stay through the weekend. It's like the Plat of Prime! :D


GM Scribes

As the Platinum Guru, I'll go ahead and pop in to say that you should definitely try out Platinum during the trials! I realize that low population is an issue for many, and I hear that reasoning time and time again. But as Gretchen indicated, the truth is that it isn't as much of an issue as it is perceived to be. If you think about it for a moment, how many people do you honestly socialize with and roleplay with in Prime at one time? The great thing about Platinum is that even though we have an active population of 30-50 during peak hours, and at most merchants or storyline events we average around 25 or so, you will always find roleplay. You can walk into the park and find one person there, but they will roleplay with you. You can get on the amunet and maybe only 10 other people are around at the time, but they will all talk to you!

Its refreshing to find that you are now part of a community where everyone knows your character's name, and they are all willing to interact and be a part of your character's life in some fashion. One of the other great things about Platinum, and its due to its low population and strong sense of community, is that storylines are wonderfully easy to find and get into. And even if your bag isn't a major storyline, and you prefer to just have every day experiences in roleplay, that is plentiful too. Your actions for your character can truly shape the world around you and that is the heart and soul of Platinum in my opinion.

Hope to see you!

~Naionna, Platinum player and Platinum guru


Not really an embassy, per se, but more like a "oh fine, let them sort it out, let's go have a doughnut" sort of deal. - Xynwen, on CHE annexes

<wondering if this is the pro-plat folder>

As I've said elsewhere, the number of people really doesn't matter. Yes, at one point there was over 2k people in the game, but personally, I probably wouldn't have been interested in talking to most of them. I'd rather be around interesting characters that do more than swap backstories as their IC interaction (if they do that much at all).

The roleplay is definitely out there in PRIME, and yes you do have to dig a little more and perhaps even weed out some less than fun RP, but it's there.


~ The girl behind Debia

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>>I was pleased, but not entirely surprised, to be surrounded by fine roleplaying the moment I stepped into Solhaven, and it's been going pretty steadily so far. It's been great to meet the new people since I left.

It helps that you create a lot of it yourself!

~Galenok

I still haven't joined plat, I think I may. However, this past week has been great, maybe it took me some time to get ito the swing of things, but I've been having tons of fun in prime. Now I'm involved in a few things that is gonna take up my time.

~Ayamei

<<I still haven't joined plat, I think I may. However, this past week has been great, maybe it took me some time to get ito the swing of things, but I've been having tons of fun in prime. Now I'm involved in a few things that is gonna take up my time.

Cooooome to Platinum! That is all.

I'm just perusing through.


~Raliel~
~Platinum Forum Moderator~