As the title suggests, over the last few weeks I have enjoyed reading the many posts and increasing player count to show the arrival of new players, as someone that has been on Amia for a few months, I have to admit that I am still floating in the same boat as all these new players, especially in the "regular party or group" area. Obviously entering a faction is one of the easiest ways to join group based gameplay, however you still can not assure that you will be able to play with players from the same time zone as you.

Although faction groups are a good way to group up, there are still many lonesome souls out there that do not belong in a faction and still rely on the party finder to get any sort of group activity and are generally the solo artists out there. As someone who has recently attempted at making an evil player this is more than the case, and finding other evil players to group with is a particularly troublesome experience as their factions are also not as easily spotted or easy to join IC.

What I would like propose is a OOC forum or topic to allow players thinking of making new characters or existing ones to post their name, base class and alignment as well as their timezone. This would allow for players to organise regular groups that may have the relative synergy to work IC and for them to be able to get the most of the available playing time whilst in game. I don't believe this would constitute as meta-gaming as it would just be a more specific version of the party finder ball. The end result, I believe would lead to refreshing IC group experiences.

Thoughts please.

_________________

The problem you're having seems to be a to be a combination of two common problems amongst Amians.

• Timezone
• Character Interests

Unfortunately, for the first one, there's really only one solution: move.

For the other, that's a bit more tricky. Evil players, for the most part are going to have a bit of a harder time on Amia, at least as far as gathering allies. Evil destroys evil, in generally all cases. There are various evil groups and sects out there that might be accepting of your evil character and allow you to rampage around the Amian region with them summoning hoards of undeads and murdering innocents or what have you. However, on the other hand, those same evil characters might be the very same characters that shun your character for various reasons:

• "Not evil enough"
• "Wrong race"
• "Wrong kind of evil"
• "I don't want people to know I'm evil"
• Etc., etc. the list goes on and on...

The trick of finding a group of people to roleplay and party with is to be consistant and play true to your character. If you continue to treat each interaction as your character would, regardless of the alignment of the character they are interacting with, as well as continue to pursue your character's goals, you will eventually find other like-minded characters to share your journey and epic adventure with.

Such a forum would be destructive to the roleplaying environment in a sense that it would make mass groupings of like-minded characters far too easily organized as well as kill tons of opportunity for RP.

Don't forget we also have a PC Notice Board if your character wishes to advertise for, interview, and build an "Adventuring Team" of some sort.

Just some food for thought. From one villain-lover to another.

_________________

Thanks, all valid and good information. I guess you are right about most of it, its just a shame at how easy it is getting a group or collecting people for "good" causes. I can only continue to do what I am doing and hope it works out, in the meantime, if anyone wants to contact me ingame about grouping possibilities, I wont stop them! Nauxia is my login.

_________________