Everyone gets the same opportunities to play here, people get warned/disciplined if their behavior is actually disruptive. If you see behavior that is concerning, screenshot it and report it to the DM team and they will deal with it. Making threads like this doesn't solve anything, it just makes you look elitist and unwilling to be patient with people that are either learning the game or don't RP the way you do.
I find these kinds of statements akin to a personal attack, and however truthful you may believe them to be, that is unhelpful to discussion at the best. Please don't.
My answer is usually to just walk away. You have a choice to engage with, or not engage with, any kind of RP that seems like it's not your thing.
It's one thing to be patient and give people a chance, that's perfectly fine. You can try to teach them through positive reinforcement, or just ignore their character's strange behaviour and see if they do it again. Negative reinforcement on the other hand, as you've noticed, doesn't work out; spending your time actively trying to fight against people who don't care about the setting is going to burn you out.
That's the thing with hubs like the outskirts, you've got so many people there for so many hours on end, and sometimes the only excitement that happens all day is an outcast racing Radu, or someone leaving a door open. Eventually you are going to see someone slip up or act out, and the guards can only do so much, whether there's 2 of them or 8 of them, they can't do it all on their own. At the end of the day they are here to RP, not enforce the setting from an OOC standpoint.
You can try your hardest but sooner or later you will come to realise your energy is better spent rewarding the kind of RP you do want to see. Spend time around people who respect the setting - they're not being tangibly rewarded otherwise.
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But from the player's side of things, I think our best tools are patience, the power of walking away, and reporting excessively bad behaviour. It is a rule here not to adversely affect the enjoyment of others, and it is not your responsibility to try and use tells to let people know they're out of line. If your character can't convince them via completely IC means, it is time to retire from that RP, take some screenshots or a video recording if need be and let the DMs have a chat with them instead.
I have to concede that this is probably the best approach. However, this is largely from an OOC angle, ie "well I dont want to burn out telling people they're harming people's roleplay every night and dealing with resultant ooc conflicts that are inevitable." While this is likely a "me" problem, it would be rather uncharacteristic for Arthiel to ignore these things. I might have to consider having her get a bit jaded about these things, because it's about the only way to reconcile it in a way that is going to keep her fun.
Call me elitist or selfish if you like, but at the end of the day if this isn't fun for people then this isn't worth engaging with - and my frustration comes from several interactions here being very excellent roleplay that I enjoyed (like that albeit brief interaction with you last night, Blair) - you get these indepth, well-emoted little interactions, even the slice of life stuff, and its great roleplay - them something like that drags it down.
Ignoring it is probably for the best. Is there a way to ignore particularly disruptive players at the player level?
As some may have surmised, I prefer to avoid bothering the DMs about this. For one, in the event that they do consider this disruptive, there's enough of it that goes on in some places, as others have mentioned, that it would be time-consuming to police. I would prefer in-character options, but there's only so much we can do at the same time, if they're just dedicated to sms-speak and dragging around demons with them, etc,etc.
Being the player of the garda from that interaction, I can explain Blair's reasoning:
I should say, the intent of that post wasn't to call any specific person out, or try to name and shame, myself. Indeed, I was trying to avoid names so I wasn't singling them out. To be honest, I assumed you were OOCly AFK. It happens, as much as it resulted in a scene that frustrated me.
The problem I more had is kind of an "ignoring the NPCs" sort of thing: I have to figure in that situation, for instance, at least one of the garda NPCs that you or the other officer had with them would be exchanging furitive glances about someone being open with magic. In this sort of vein, I'm of the opinion that RPing out some emotes can absolve most sins. I mean, you do you, I'm not going to tell you how to RP your character, but that'd be my mind on it.
The same person involve had brought a demon (assassin imp) into the church and was basically flaunting it. Several players called them out on it, IC. FWIW.