What do you think makes a character feel like an NPC?

[Tens & Twenties]

I absolutely hate the cut and dried yes-man type of characters whether it be within the legal/illegal realm who always go "OK", "Yeah yeah yeah", "For sure for sure" just for the sake of agreement without considering any sort of con to whatever it is they're agreeing to.

 

This is the short NPC-like interaction that definitely makes for some really bland roleplay experiences, they won't take things a step further to spice things up and actually make the effort to extend the roleplay and get some substance out of it.

 

Not to mention the 'preset' cookie-cutter characters that are always roleplayed the same way with the same demeanor and identity over and over again, the only thing that changes are the character names.

Edited February 23, 2022 by Tens & Twenties

[SCANDALOUZ]

Tldr - lack of depth

[Natasha Valentine]

It's not so much as a (NPC) but more so players playing on Alts with lack of depth and that only appear once or very rarely. I experienced this a lot while running a company on LSRP SAMP. You'd show your whole business location, do an interview with them, get them all setup etc and give them a task while spending all day with them/teaching the ropes of how the business operates or what to do and then they never come back again since it was an alt to begin with. I typically don't like just /inviting players with no context. This happened to a lot of companies, that's why I'm personally against Alts in general, not that everyone has bad alts though, I've had a quite of few players that did well using alts and had the time to maintain both.  

 

Edited March 28, 2022 by Natasha Valentine

[Florida]

When you can't differentiate between their character and OOC forum persona.

Edited March 30, 2022 by Florida

[actuallycl0ud]

When your conversations with them sound like this:

 

 

[mhrhan]

Attempting to "bully" others in various places OOCly just because they care about their character and the roleplay.  I think they really have a problem maintaining their character and RP standards if they're talking shit about the roleplay someone else is doing.