Well, personaly i think it's a good thing, but I see one big issue that i don't think i have seen here yet, namely the fact that there are alot of people who play on the RP-server, but don't look at the forum.
I personaly was planning a liberty cruiser, and i started writing a story for it (something in the line of being a guard unit of zone 21). The main reason was that new york is one of the few active systems to play in. On my runs between LD-14 and newark station, i usually get noone on system chat (maybe because my RP sucks) exept for new york, and that's quite frustrating.
But I totally agree with the reason. The other day i was pirating a bit around the tradelane to the california jumpgate, when all of a sudden i had an cruiser and a gunboat on my hands. Since i knew my hyena wouldn't stand a chance, so i tried to run, they cded me, and when i tried to RP myself out of it, they just blew me up.
