Cordovan, please update the Official Roleplaying rules and policy thread!

[Elwenwing]

I am a bit busy at the moment, but we can work on it. The trick is that since the server merge, the community of Laurelin has become more diverse, and recent discussions on the forums here clearly show that there are as many people who want us to be super-strict on the rules as those who feel very strongly that we should stop being so harsh to people trying to have fun in-game. There's also a sentiment that the exceptional RP naming rules were used to harass others. I appreciate that some want a very strict barrier to entry on Laurelin based on a deep knowledge of lore-specific nomenclature, but we have to accept that not everyone wants to play that game, and some people who have been on Laurelin for some time now feel like they didn't have a choice when it came time to transfer servers, and ended up on Laurelin.

Rather than it being a case of us being heavy-handed in applying rules, we'd rather respond to the desires of the community. But it's clear that there is a deep divide on Laurelin, and that needs to be settled before we have another sticky post that can be used as ammunition.

Thank you kindly for your reply Cordovan! It's much appreciated!

I understand times are very busy for you right now, but I do hope you will be able to address this matter in more detail in the months to come!

Also I do understand your view, and roleplayers as well as all others, including people who came after the mergers, need a place where they feel at home, and that can be on Laurelin in my opinion!

Laurelin has always been a very diverse server in my experience, and certainly not a home to strict roleplayers alone! (I joined late 2012, and I'm a casual roleplayer who enjoys most aspects of the game equally!)

There certainly never has been a very strict barrier to enter, and in my general experience players are quite lenient, helpful and respectful to eachother!

That said as players of a RP server with it's additional rules, there is and should be an expectancy of general respect and acceptance of those rules! I think it's fair to expect a player who creates a character on a RP server to have the general intention to follow the guidelines set out by SSG!

I do hope you agree with this, as that is pretty much the basis for a RP server!

So I feel it is very important to have clarity about the RP rules from SSG, and they do need to be somewhere in a public place available for all to view! An unstickied forum thread is not the best place!

And perhaps clarity is needed about SSG's expectancy of players to abide to the RP rules on official RP servers as well!

If there is no clarity it can cause discussions as well!

Also I think the forum discussion you mentioned is perhaps not the most representative! But even there I think the general agreement was that the RP name rule policy should nowadays be less strict and mainly focus on the most obvious infractions, and the general RP rules itself were not part of the discussion!