Something that's been bugging me recently and I feel should be brought up, and that's the world we RP in.
Back in live, the US and EU RPers were quite different breeds of fish.. As I understood it, US players tended to RP in small groups and there wasn't a lot of interaction between you; you had no "shared world" RP, just small bubbles for groups of folks. Whereas we in the EU, on the Union server, had a shared world for the most part (there are always exceptions), that we tried hard to keep consistent and generally agreed among ourselves that stuff one group did would usually have happened for other groups as well. This let us do such large RP events as the Requiem War, or the events surrounding the awakening of Mot, with scores of people taking part and posting fiction and artwork etc to go along with the plot.
Now, since PC's launch, I've been seeing several folks talking about the "vanishing", or that the city is empty of crime, or citizens, or other things like that, all relating to the game's close down. When this gets mixed in with other folks who, like me, are RPing as if nothing at all has changed, it becomes extremely jarring and forces me to either say something ICly, or ignore it, and I don't like ignoring people as that's rude.
So, I think some kind of consensus really does need to be reached here. I don't want to force my view of things on people, and I don't want their views forced on me, so I think that in the long run, it might be best if, when you're in public locations such as Pocket D, folks not mention the last 2.5 years at all. That way the whole problem is avoided and clashes don't happen. If you want to RP they happened, or didn't, just keep that to between like minded players in less public places.
What do folks think?
