(12-15-2014, 07:54 PM)C Wrote: And yet we, as RPers, spend a bunch of our game time in activities that:
a) Don't generate gil (unless you're also charging gil for your RP)
b) Are pretty damn boring unless there's at least one other person there RPing with you, also foregoing their gil generation
c) Rely on some concept of community, as they are cooperative enterprises.
It's almost as if we feel that there are things more important than gil, mmmm?
There are certainly things more important than gil, however some people may feel the need or necessity therein to acquire it. The notion of abandoning the option of profit in this scenario largely due to basic RPC community association alienates those people who may have more than RPC ties as well. Their seeking to recoup losses for hard earned gil especially with the three points listed above being relevant in both directions tilts heavily towards something of a loss out of obligation than goodwill.
I could understand if your complaint were to avoid people utilizing the RPC to sell their FC or private housing in that manner, and even then if that were the case my own idea would be that as a community we're assisting our own to fulfill their duties to non-community members or friends or simply as an aspect of our community to grow within the confines of our servers state. I don't see how insisting those within the RPC forgo their ability to earn gil and improve their FC/private housing for the sake of outward integrity and protest against the current ethical state of the server economics and/or SE's poorly handled housing market is helpful at all or an improvement to our community in general. In current context it feels like a punishment or stranglehold over those who have the option to push the limits of the gil they make in transition, or that now, as a member of the RPC community we're somehow now being pressured to offer some sort of a hand out or break to others within?
Perhaps I haven't stated it clearly here, but right now the underlying tone of what is being considered the RPC's "thing" seems to be taking a route of intrusiveness and policy rather than a community feeling. I've always felt the RPC community was open, helpful, and laid back, I never once thought it would entail how me or my FC should be marketing our assets or what we choose to offer or not offer to the community beyond our good will, open arms, and inclusiveness.
