What happened to the good old times when you could talk to anyone for a good few minutes about anything inRP no matter what faction you belonged to?
Nowadays it seems like you're only "allowed" to participate in RP if you're part of a legal organization. Even if you're doing nothing wrong and just trying to have a chat with some lawful players as an unlawful, most people will just straight up kill you even if you don't want to fight.
It's like you're not allowed to RP a personal character anymore but rather you're just your ID and people can't see past that. Someone literally told me that if I wanted to talk to people, I should be a Zoner. Really? Is that what this community has come to?
And just because you rephrase "engaging" to "surrender or be destroyed/charging weapons/..." doesn't mean it makes sense inRP or that it's all of a sudden acceptable to gun down anyone who shows up red on your radar. If you really want to do that, then go to Connecticut. That's the sole purpose of that system. But don't ruin other people's fun.
People seem to have lost the essence of RP. They don't make conversation for the sake of talking/having fun but rather to "justify" why they're going to kill you. And sometimes they can't even be bothered to do that. Everyone seems so deadset on doing exactly what they want that there's no more room for silly things like negotiations or talking your way out of a situation or even just explaining yourself.
Of course there are exceptions to this and there is still some good RP going on in this game but it's rare and far apart that you meet someone who's actually willing to engage in a conversation with you. I still love this game, I just wish we could go back to the days where good RP was more important than powertrading or PVP battles.
