Eva really touched upon a big sore point for a lot of RP groups, with the FC-vs-LS issue. I'll give you Tylwyth Narah's solution, just as an example.
RP-wise, Tylwyth Narah are an organized crime group, so literally everyone in the group is a criminal. We're probably medium RP overall, as we have some people who are only IC for RP events and others who are IC most of the time.* I didn't want us to fall into the trap of only RPing within our group, so our charter specifically says that we RP villains within other people's RP arcs. I'd say that probably 50-60% of our RP revolves around other people's RP arcs. This is beneficial, in my mind, because it gets us out there in the world RPing with people. I'd done an earlier group, the NHSC, which had a similar charter for similar reasons.
With both groups, I knew I also didn't want to turn people away if they didn't want to leave their FC, so both groups are based on linkshells instead of FC. Tylwyth Narah *does* have a FC, too, but this is really a convenience FC for people who otherwise don't have a FC and want to participate, and to hold our house (when new wards are added *cough-cough*), so it's just a game construct. From an IC point of view, there's no difference between the FC and the LS, and I encourage all the IC interaction to happen in the LS.
I've been in other RP FCs, and I think their insularness or extrovertedness really comes down to what channel they use for IC interaction. Ones that tend to use FC chat tend to be insular. Ones that use a LS tend to be more incusive of other people.
*And as we all know when you toss 100 coins and add up all the heads and tails, statistically you can say they land on their edge.
RP-wise, Tylwyth Narah are an organized crime group, so literally everyone in the group is a criminal. We're probably medium RP overall, as we have some people who are only IC for RP events and others who are IC most of the time.* I didn't want us to fall into the trap of only RPing within our group, so our charter specifically says that we RP villains within other people's RP arcs. I'd say that probably 50-60% of our RP revolves around other people's RP arcs. This is beneficial, in my mind, because it gets us out there in the world RPing with people. I'd done an earlier group, the NHSC, which had a similar charter for similar reasons.
With both groups, I knew I also didn't want to turn people away if they didn't want to leave their FC, so both groups are based on linkshells instead of FC. Tylwyth Narah *does* have a FC, too, but this is really a convenience FC for people who otherwise don't have a FC and want to participate, and to hold our house (when new wards are added *cough-cough*), so it's just a game construct. From an IC point of view, there's no difference between the FC and the LS, and I encourage all the IC interaction to happen in the LS.
I've been in other RP FCs, and I think their insularness or extrovertedness really comes down to what channel they use for IC interaction. Ones that tend to use FC chat tend to be insular. Ones that use a LS tend to be more incusive of other people.
*And as we all know when you toss 100 coins and add up all the heads and tails, statistically you can say they land on their edge.
