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Really? If someone tried to setup Mon'Star, I think it would possibly be nudged a little but a lot of people would be interested in it, rather than booing it off. Exhibit A, check out zapp and Gronath's Fantasmas de la Nube Siniestre story. Yes, that's a terrorist ID application, or so I've been told.

The oldie grip is a lot weaker than some seem to think- I can think of numerous examples, such as zapp, Del, Dusty Lens, and (not to be vain:crazy:) myself, all of whom have joined rather recently, and gathered a nice bit of respect around the forums. I didn't even have Skype until quite recently, and I honestly believe that any idea will be taken for what its worth, regardless of who says it- then again, if you have a good track record, you might be trusted with more, but a genuine good idea is a genuine good idea. Same thing with genuine good RP, and genuine bad RP. Faction vs indie, oldtimer vs newbie, its irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. What matters is the idea, the post, the RP- everything else is secondary.

I haven't been on long enough to track all the changes in attitudes or know who's an "old timer" and who's an "old, old timer". I'd also agree that some things have started to change--as best I can tell.

But you put yourself in the position of a brand new player constantly hearing from the visible and established players--in game and on the forum--how its all these independents that are crap players here.

It creates a hostile environment that intimidates most from trying anything. Then some new guy stumbles in, hasn't got enough sense to be intimidated and maybe presents a play thats not the most fully developed and the inquisition publicly forces his confession or executes him.

Few players are nudged to improve from my experience here--most are kicked and stoned. I have seen little nudging--unless it was towards conformity with existing player factions.

I am not getting stoned or challenged on any Rp at the moment. Getting along well. but every time I see a "those indies/noobs" post, I think if I was a new guy, how crappy that would sound.

It's a very subtle, "Those of us who really know how to have fun will let you know when you can "attitude, quite often.

I can remember when Tenacity's rp appalled me but I never told him "your rp sucks" or went on a forum bash against him. It takes awhile to find your niche and I could see he was really invested. So it wasn't a problem to me.

We need to--I think have inclusive ideas--not exclusive ones--and we need to put emphasis on showing we are doing that all the time.

Does anyone understand what the problem is to me? It isn't the issues its the attitudes.

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