Fearless Roleplay

[Old Man Jokhah]

I agree with you, Infernaw. The goal isn't to change the playerbase to passive. All we're trying to do collectively is bring back roleplay. Part of bringing it back would be including the more aggressive players, as the biggest concern with them is that they largely do not roleplay. Remember back in the day when Enzyme would go door to door asking if you wanted to hear about Jesus Christ? When you said no, you ended up raided, but not just an instant gunfight. They would break in, force you into a chair and read scripture to you for a minute or two. Rowan luring people in as the doctor, then doing sick experiments on them (before he stopped trying to roleplay it so well), or even Ludo rolling up for a quick strong arm robbery. There were elements of roleplay mixed with the violence. Demands weren't empty, hostages were valued more than just pushing police force. Criminals could pull off jobs and get away, without having to kill half the server who largely shouldn't be involved in the first place. Even the infamous YMCM could pull off public shootouts without greasing every civ in the area too, and they were borderline minge. Even #R had initiations and a style to them and they were a full on minge clan, even they had some small level of roleplay to them.

When I log in now, there are averagely two shootouts happening in the middle of the street. People walk up and just rdm cops because they are "insert job here." Worst of, the staff typically only react to it after it has been out of hand for a few minutes. Now I understand that staff get busy and all that, I'm not attacking them, but I have to be honest when I say how things are. I've been watching the courthouse as well as the bans page over time. I've seen people banned for taking actions on criminals because their job was citizen, but the criminal who randomly engaged the citizen gets to walk because his job is criminal? What happened to self defense and calling the police being a player option instead of a mandated rule? For that matter, where in the rules does it say you are required to call the police? These are huge issues because players have been punished and lost ability to take part in the community over an opinion that is publically accepted but not in the black and white.

Now had both parties had more roleplay experience and been less ban happy, they could have easily roleplayed it out and moved on. The problem lies in that one or both sides don't really have a good understanding on roleplay verse rules. They only see rules because that's in their face now, unlike a majority of roleplay which has died because of reasons listed in the OP.

I don't have anything against the staff, nor against aggressive rp, however the stance that it's okay to allow passive rp to take a hit because that's what the current players want should be unacceptable. If the players want non stop violence, they should find a gamemode that isn't classified as roleplay or perhaps if the community wants this plays to be a shoot'em up, change the title from roleplay to shoot'em up so that roleplayers can go where they're welcome. I came here because this was one of a handful of real roleplay servers and I will fight to keep that dream alive.

On a side note, about 65% of the playerbase that wanted the aggressive rp rules opened up, left to go to another community. Since then, some of the terrible rules they wanted have been reverted, such as racism. Maybe it should be considered allowing for some comprimise so that the roleplayers can have some level of protection from attacks, since they get banned if they try to settle it themselves.

Not an attack, just my thought train.