I've been wondering this since I came back about a month ago - Does anyone still RP (even light RP) on FV? Saw a couple guilds recruiting via the boards in the guild hall, and also my guild does light RP but perhaps folks don't know where to look? FV gets advertised so often for the free-trade and the bonus XP yet no mention of RP :\ I'd love to get RP events rolling again for those of us that still do. So when you see a purple name, do you figure the person is just looking for privacy or in character? (also x-posted this to the EQ Reddit)
Any roleplaying is usually done within guilds. There is none that I have ever seen in 'public' on the server.
If you watch the Guide Events forum, you might catch Guide's doing some role-play on FV as well as other servers. These are really the only RP events you will find these days, unfortunately.