Alright, here I am.
I took the chance and visited the cantina event on Naboo yesterday, trying to stay awake by enjoying some instant coffe, but after all it worked.
It was interesting to compare RP a bit and engage with some players of the "english RP community".
Apparently I even translated my character good enough and he didnt loose his "appearence" when I used english. It was difficult to find the right words at times, but overall it was a very interesting and pleasent experience and I made first ties to some "non-german" characters.
Well, reason I got here in the first place:
I just jumped on Vreese' RP, when she was muttering some blessings at the Theed Starport and we had a nice chat IC and also OOC.
She told me about swgtales and the english community on Gorath and I told her about german roleplayers and our try with swgchronicles in exchange.
Chronicles is, as I see it, an extention for into-detail RP coordination to SWG/DE (swg.gamigo.de), the official german Community, who is mostly located on Gorath.
(Actually I am a staffmember for Chronicles and Moderator for SWG/DE)
And because I always like meeting new people and bonding with other players, I suggested we might establish small links between both communities.
One idea that came up:
Imperial Roleplay.
Chronicles actually resulted from our efforts to establish the empire as an officially closed unit in the german RP community.
Officers aknowledge each other, Imperial Intelligence is not openly representing itself through Twilek dancers and all those other issues we had in the past.
We created a group of "officers" who are representing COMPNOR/ISB, Navy, Intelligence, Army, Stormtroopers etc. to have strong empire to work with. Afterwards we used to gather players who enjoyed playing the anonymous trooper around those officer characters, started with some events and created some small storylines around every part of the empire.
It worked better than we expected, so we began expanding the idea, started inviting people, we always wanted an open process, and are now aknowledged as a certain united empire and especially a community that may not be completely united, but we work together as much as we are able to and so on.
I already started talking to some people InGame about maybe putting together a small event, getting some players fond of english and maybe doing some contrabant search or anything.
I dont know what you think about it or if there is any other possibility of connecting a bit, but I would greatly welcome it.
There are problems with time difference, language and maybe even RP style (I noticed yesterday that the german RP is more lets say "controlled" by certain rules we established through talks and bad experience, nothing that should be understood as critizism on your way of roleplay), but overall there is a thing that unites all of us:
We are playing Star Wars Galaxies together.
We like getting into character, we are after all Roleplayers.
So much for my introduction, hope to catch some of you InGame and maybe have some nice roleplaying experiences.
Greetings,
Cijj Jodaij
PS: For those who actually read my biography - I am playing a kind of shizophrenic role with my account. Lt. Edro Jodaij is a role I get into for developing Imperial Roleplay. He is not Cijj, but in fact his uncle.
And sometimes you may see me getting into other NSC roles for events etc.
Just so you know
