What is Role Play?

[Ursus]

"Lorena is an Outcast, she never met a Corsair in person before.

On her first flight alone she meets the Corsair Marcus. Marcus is basically in the same situation as Lorena. Young unexperienced and only learned about Outcasts, what other people told him. [...]

They meet again and again on occasion and start to feel more for each other. Finally they end up in careing more for each other than for their houses, they leave together and search their luck somewhere else.

Okay now add another Outcast, who sees Marcus and immediately goes hostile. Does Lorena defend her lover and start shooting at her faction mate? At that point you break the shared roleplay foundation for the server.

In order for it to work at all, Lorna and Marcus would have to keep it *very* private, so that there is no possibility of a third-party encounter (at which point it is a private roleplay that is separate from the server roleplay). Alternatively, and easier for everybody, is just dont get into that kind of situation.

Its very important, this server roleplay is predefined so that people can strap onto it and play along. It is all previously agreed upon, here are the roles, so that people can come and go. When you allow too much leeway you end up with stuff like IC Bonn Station, a monument to selfishness from people who knew better right until they didnt

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