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If for whatever reason you cannot RP... what the heck are you doing here?

Frankly, Disco is the last bastion of good, well populated Freelancer servers - the only other half-decent server I know of is the Hamburg City one, and it's 90% German speaking and almost totally Vanilla - great if you're German, not so great if the only language you have any grasp of is English. Of those Disco servers, some 80% are RP and those that aren't are "fun" servers - in other words, servers where you start with a fortune and don't actually get to have any fun. People like myself respect and partake of the RP, but given a choice would much rather play the same Freelancer mod on a non-rp server. However, that's not an option and so we do our best to fit in and try not to "toe the line" too much and upset the locals.

Those of you who really do consider yourself "RP Evangelists" really should at least attempt to be a little more considerate towards the new fish. Sure, when someone cruises into New York in a Bretonian Battleship with no tags nor license and starts singing Rule Britannia in all caps, then get stuck in. For the minor infractions a little tolerance, leniency and advice would go an awful long way. Remember that no matter what we do to encourage people to come to the forums, they'll go into the game first and only perhaps end up ever looking at the rules at all.

The other thing to remember is that people who are new to RP feel like an absolute tit when they're doing it. It seems corny, unnecessary and demeaning - try to give them a break and make them feel more comfortable instead of jumping on them and asking why their here - the answer to that is pretty self explanatory.

Just my two cents as a newbie trying to fit into what for me is an alien world.