(01-06-2015, 06:36 PM)Tiergan Wrote: Why do people think that they have to leave the RPC forums if they're on Gligamesh? o_O I thought this forum was for everybody?
I figure I should chime in here...
For what it's worth, in my mind, the RPC is for all RPers on XIV; we just only have forums for two servers, Balmung and Gilgamesh, because they were the ones voted on by the RPC community around the 2.x Beta 3 timeframe as the unofficial RP servers, and it'd be infeasible to have more forums. In the pre-AWS days, that was because we were already maxing out our host; in our new AWS world, it's a matter of having an approachable UI and not making other servers feel like they're unwelcome or have less approachable RP because their forums here are less active.
It's not my intention to eliminate the Gilgamesh forums here even though they have a RP community site for the server now (http://www.gilgamesh-rp.com, for those wondering
). Discussions of merging the Events and Directory forums in the past were to help people find things more effectively via filtering by thread tag and to minimize any "server versus server" feel, not a way to squelch one server in favor of another. At any rate, the community didn't like that proposal (it was roundly voted down), so the forums remain.Yes, there were some very acrimonious arguments over servers Back In The Day™, but now, the RPC is open to any roleplayer on XIV, regardless of server.
Our forum focus is on Balmung and Gilgamesh, yes, but many of the forums are useful regardless of your server, and the wiki is, IMO, one of the best resources available for RPers.#magicAdminHat
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