Dear Funcom,
This is what i would hope is a very small tweak but would be very well received by the Role-play community.
Allowing the different note types; plain, dagger, arrow, journals and papyrus scrolls - all those that we can write on now - to be placeable within another players land claim. They may need their durability reduced to make their removal easy for the recipient and presumably therefore reduce any potential abuse.
A little background and context for the RP.
Until recently we were dependent upon mods to be able to leave written notes at other player / character homes unfortunately since a few updates ago, the mod most often used has no longer been compatible.
These notes were used for everything imaginable from;
- Leaving clues or a trail in the sands. We use them to describe evidence of something having happened, for example;
“Upon returning home, you find several of your thralls wounded and much of the steel from you Smithy is missing. There is a blood trail leading south where you discover some very large footprints and some torn blue clothing that reeks of sulphur and brimstone”.
This is usually a rule for the PvP raiding / theft part of many of our role-playing communities to ensure that theft and conflict lead to more RP and story not just the loss of items.
The notes have been used for so many more things that make our RP experience and the characters we immerse ourselves in so much fuller.
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Just saying Hi to a neighbor you visited whilst they were out (it may seem like nothing but building character relations that come through interaction, it is surprisingly important just to know someone visited when you may not see someone in-game as often as you’d like due to play times and international time zones).
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Placing an order with a Blacksmith, Armoursmith, Animal Tamer, Decorator, Builder, Assasin that lives in another part of the lands and they are out or asleep when you visit.
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Putting up posters to promote an event.
(I once spent 8 hrs travelling the lands finding every home, village and city just so I could put up posters ahead of a market - the effort generated so much more RP and story than I could have imagined). -
A love letter to a forbidden love from a rival kingdom.
The list could go on indefinitely, it was a small tool that enabled so much and was really only limited by our own imaginations.
Now i know many will say, just use discord or some other kind of DM - and yes, that’s all well and good, and yes we do when things no longer work like they now.
But it is so much less immersive. And there is no opportunity for other player/characters to come across the note and perhaps that could change their or my story’s in ways I couldn’t have predicted.
Roleplay is about the unknown, the surprise, the unexpected. The more done out of character through real world channels the less surprise and fun there is.
Anyway, before this becomes an essay…
I do hope this is something small that could be considered and implemented with relative ease.
And regardless, thanks so much for a game that led me to some amazing communities and has given me thousands upon thousands of unexpected hours of; fun, pleasure and every other emotion under the sun. Its been fantastic and I look forward to the next thousand still.
Kindest
Capt.
