(11-30-2017, 09:14 PM)Valde Wrote: Going to chime in, many of the people on Mateus are absolutely happy to be here. I was formerly on Balmung before I dived entirely onto Mateus due to the inability of friends to join me on Balmung, and the extreme housing issue on Balmung (Not that Mateus doesn't have its own issues).
I'm one of the Moderators of the Mateus RP Hub Discord, a 1200+ strong Discord for Mateus folks to advertise and connect, and we grow daily. Though I've encouraged many to utilize the RPC personally, it seems that the community and Hub has really focused on Discord and centralizes around that. It could help explain the very hard difference you see between RPC representation. Many have expressed they still feel like the RPC heavily caters to Balmung only (Though I've pointed out numerous things that prove that wrong). Can't really help perception at this point.
I will say, whatever Balmung/Mateus rivalry may have once existed is not tolerated within the Discord. We are all RPers. RP on Balmung, RP on Mateus, we're all weirdos writing pretendy words at keyboards.
I remember bringing this up with the RPM heads too as a concern! The feeling that RPC caters to Balmung is one of those weird powered-by-confirmation-bias issues where by avoiding the thing, a person encourages the same. It's been awesome to see more Mateus activity and I hope more people consider cross-posting. RPC does have the nice added value of google searches coming up. And an arguably easier method to search for old posts/lore/past events/etc.
And the same goes for every other server with RPers too. We want to know what you're all up to! If it's in a discord that requires an invite link, a shared google doc, or tumblr, my first question's always gonna be "so how does a new person find out when/where/how RP happens on that server?" In my experience, that usually means checking the official forums, or searching, which usually brings up RPC on the top.
