A time to reflect

[Jinx]

where i agree about the RP dieing is when it comes to details that can be done ingame - i only see that in the regions i play though. - some are willing to RP, others are not.

for example... there was that rogue gunboat ( non factioned for what it matters ) departing from freeport 11. - he went straight to alaska - prolly intending to take the alaska route back to liberty. upon asking him to take the RP route ( through tohoku ) - he complied without any complained and took this route. a very positive incident as it shows that he saw reason that taking alaska, even if its so conveniently a shortcut is still ooRP. - and he took his time to fly the route that he would most probably take IF he was to head to omicron delta. ( that means, not through gamma and theta as it would be suicide, but through kusari which is dangerous but at least possible for those that can know about it in char )

then there was a person that took the alaska route cause it was a short cut. - some junker who said he had no time to take the RP route through the omegas ( in his case as a junker, the gamma / theta route ). he insisted that he had hacker friends ( he was flying a corsair gunboat ) that would open the alaska gate for him... but admitting that it would be too much for him to take a RP route.
thats the cases where RP dies, cause the people find themselves too lazy to pay attention to the details. - not much can be RPed in depths ingame - but what we CAN roleplay should be RPed.

what really happened is an increase of forum RP and rather little impact of it ingame. - people try... and its not like the RP ingame was vanished or got worse, but its more like the forum RP got more and more complex - so its not possible to uphold the same standard ingame anymore.

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