(05-07-2015, 04:59 PM)Aaron Wrote: Im not choosing sides but from what I read from the last few posts people seem to argue about following lore just because they want to argue.
I don't know if that's a fair characterization of it. I think people enjoy debating the relative pros and cons of different levels of "strictness" with regards to lore, and how this impacts one's access to RP and creative freedom -- and how you can come to a resolution where everyone has fun.
Personally (and this is totally me as a fellow RPer, not as the admin, speaking), I don't think it's helpful for people to label each other as "lore Nazis" or "lore breakers" or what have you. We're all on a continuum that ranges from "absolutely strict adherence to lore, insofar as if it's not explicitly stated as possible in quest dialog in game, it's not possible, so how dare you RP that your character learned how to swing a sword from his father instead of the Gladiator's Guild" to "anything goes, and here's my half-vampire, half-werewolf genetically engineered love child of Cloud and Gaius van Baelsar." In between these caricature extremes, people have different levels of tolerance for different interpretations and how big the grey areas in lore actually are.
One rather annoying thing that happened back on CoH's official forums for the Virtue server is that the "lore-strict" group decided to never RP with the "lore-lenient" group, and so the lore-lenient group decided to troll and mock the lore-strict group whenever possible. The two groups never had discussions like these to try to reconcile and find common ground. That's... not really helpful or beneficial, in my mind. There's room enough for everyone, and there are stories that can be told without even so much as getting close to a lore boundary.
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