Ooh apologies! I didn't mean to make it seem as the end all be all problem identification and solution :D I find that identifying the problems in the sum, whether minute or grand, to be a good step in finding the solutions. Casting it as an amalgam, while true, can leave it to be confusing as to what needs the support and help with.wrote:the only minute clarification to my original post is that I think current situation is a sum of many small things. There's no universal single fix, which is why I'm making some efforts on as varied spectrum
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Cliques are always going to be a complaint, on any server, whether or not theres major cliques about. Yeah, as someone who does end up in alot of events and have a clique of very close IC friends, I'd agree its a very good idea to start being inclusive in opening up within character reasons. Even having a day where theres completely new characters coming in and around, or starting a small campaign specifically for new characters. But there is nothing wrong with wanting to play a singular favorite character who you have deeply invested in, and who is someone to demand someone else play something else because someone can't get rp out of a character due to past actions and consequences. Taking a break from a Main is fun and good, but hearing "You should and ought" really kills it. But I'll still stick to my previous comment about initiative. No clique is going to invite you out if you just stand there and watch, and to cliques, no one is going to want to get involved without some open spot to speak up in.
Same goes for events, as well. Typically you'll know when something is a player requested personal plot, but otherwise, there plot hooks and standing around ain't going to get you anywhere, cliquey or not. I'll have to defend events a little bit, really. Theres a campaign going on for a few weeks and ending, and an EM can only handle so many players without imploding and exploding simultaneously. A good deal of same-character people end up in an event per say, is because they're around/taking an initiative/or following just to watch the ongoings (I'm guilty of this one, I like watching/providing support what happens most of the time.) Events going on for a while is nothing bad, its continuing a story for RP. But it might only be bad when you aren't included, understandable. No reason to discourage someone's fun time, or an EM/DM who is giving their free time to this server.
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I think its rather the player who must take the consequences for their/their characters actions. A Character. ICLY. can try and skirt their consequences.wrote:that a character takes responsibility for their actions. If he does not take responsibility, It is god-moding and/or griefering (which is clearly forbidden by rules here as well as on any other worthy RP server)
I think Digi has put what else I wanted to say very eloquently, as well. +1