We really are just spinning our wheels & having a pissing contest at this point, so let me keep it simple.
If I had a nickel for every time that I've stated over the years things akin to "I don't wanna step on people's toes that want to play their gaians vanilla-style" I'd not have to work for a living.
When I started to think outside the box & began to RP 'Gaian Natives' it was the start of something unlike anyone has done before & I continue to seed that RP concept in all that I do. It may seem like I'm crapping on peoples vanilla ideas when I make threads like these, but it just seems that way to people that don't think there are other options to explore.
You, for example seem to on the surface, limit your imagination to vanilla as it were a bible of some sort. Trust me, it's not.
The point of threads like these is to try & get people to RP a shallow filler faction (which the Gaians were made to be) with more depth. I never demand in any way that they follow my ideas, but I encourage it cause I'm argueably the biggest gaian cheerleader this community has ever seen.
Question: Do you play a Gaian yourself Pimp?
You ever try to break a mold with 'im?
Let me tell ya, it's extremely difficult when you work for a living all the while understanding that many, many people can't be bothered to read extensive RP background of a minor faction with little going for it vanilla-wise.
Can you say that you have such an understanding of your character that you know everything about his/her environment up to such mundane day to day things such as the structure of the stations air reclamation system or the ways to lessen cost of his/her monthly electric bill?
It may sound boring, but it's anything but shallow:P
most of the rest I could reply to is just back & forth urine spray 'tween the two of us, but I'm willing to yap about it in PM if you so wish