Jonny Marley
Active member
- Location
- England
Hello there Roleplay UK,
As an active member and owner of Up-n-Atom, I've noticed a trend within our server's food roleplay dynamics that I believe could benefit from some thoughtful enhancements. Specifically, I'd like to address smoothie consumption and its impact on immersive roleplay experience.
It's become apparent that smoothies have emerged as a dominant choice among others, often being purchased in large quantities with minimal roleplay involved. I feel like as a result of smoothies having such a dominant force and is the 'go to' for most people in game, I feel meaningful food RP is somewhat deserted at times within the city. I could be the only one thinking it and if so then so be it I guess but I feel like sometimes there's a bit of a 'lazy approach' to Food RP and people would rather buy up smoothies from a Burger or a Taco Shop. To me this makes absolutely no sense. As a burger shop I'm sat here looking at what the main product is that sells (smoothies) and thinking to myself; does this make sense for RP? To me this doesn't make sense and even if we then don't sell smoothies, people would rather check best prices on smoothies etc.
I want to thank the likes of Nobles for giving me a little hand so far within RP with us crafting our burgers for them etc. Even with me keeping a close eye on with how that is going to it comes to me as no shock once again to see people prioritizing other options when it comes to buying stuff in.
The point I am trying to make is that some people forget sometimes that the server is about RP. I just think it would be nice to see a change in maybe how the food is consumed or how food businesses work as a result to try and enhance and encourage more RP within the food industry at RPUK. I have not come up with an exact idea on how this would be tweaked as I feel everyone would have their different opinions on it but feel like it was necessary at some point to reach out on here and gain some genuine feedback as I have seen from myself it first hand and have seen people discuss it on discords etc in the past but not ever being put on the forums really.
Example of a few ideas in no particular order:
1. Changing the prices of smoothies by a substantial amount
2. Make it so certain other items are made better to balance it out
3. Maybe changing the way you consume food as a whole (E.g. Making it so different foods are required at different times)
4. In terms off at the various different food places themselves make each one unique to the food they're selling for example different stations that make them emote making the food product. I.e. Pizzeria having food stations for 1. making base 2. adding toppings 3. packaging pizza
These are all just ideas that I have had as a means to change in the way we RP food and I am open to hear other ideas and opinions that are specific to food RP.
Once again I would love to see other peoples viewpoints on this topic many thanks Barry.
As an active member and owner of Up-n-Atom, I've noticed a trend within our server's food roleplay dynamics that I believe could benefit from some thoughtful enhancements. Specifically, I'd like to address smoothie consumption and its impact on immersive roleplay experience.
It's become apparent that smoothies have emerged as a dominant choice among others, often being purchased in large quantities with minimal roleplay involved. I feel like as a result of smoothies having such a dominant force and is the 'go to' for most people in game, I feel meaningful food RP is somewhat deserted at times within the city. I could be the only one thinking it and if so then so be it I guess but I feel like sometimes there's a bit of a 'lazy approach' to Food RP and people would rather buy up smoothies from a Burger or a Taco Shop. To me this makes absolutely no sense. As a burger shop I'm sat here looking at what the main product is that sells (smoothies) and thinking to myself; does this make sense for RP? To me this doesn't make sense and even if we then don't sell smoothies, people would rather check best prices on smoothies etc.
I want to thank the likes of Nobles for giving me a little hand so far within RP with us crafting our burgers for them etc. Even with me keeping a close eye on with how that is going to it comes to me as no shock once again to see people prioritizing other options when it comes to buying stuff in.
The point I am trying to make is that some people forget sometimes that the server is about RP. I just think it would be nice to see a change in maybe how the food is consumed or how food businesses work as a result to try and enhance and encourage more RP within the food industry at RPUK. I have not come up with an exact idea on how this would be tweaked as I feel everyone would have their different opinions on it but feel like it was necessary at some point to reach out on here and gain some genuine feedback as I have seen from myself it first hand and have seen people discuss it on discords etc in the past but not ever being put on the forums really.
Example of a few ideas in no particular order:
1. Changing the prices of smoothies by a substantial amount
2. Make it so certain other items are made better to balance it out
3. Maybe changing the way you consume food as a whole (E.g. Making it so different foods are required at different times)
4. In terms off at the various different food places themselves make each one unique to the food they're selling for example different stations that make them emote making the food product. I.e. Pizzeria having food stations for 1. making base 2. adding toppings 3. packaging pizza
These are all just ideas that I have had as a means to change in the way we RP food and I am open to hear other ideas and opinions that are specific to food RP.
Once again I would love to see other peoples viewpoints on this topic many thanks Barry.
saves people dicking about and asking for items you simply don’t do 
