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(07-01-2013, 09:10 PM)Aysun Wrote: So, basically you are angry because the RPC wants to support one server as the unofficial server in an effort to keep the RP community together.Almost.
When this poll is over, if someone joins the RPC and says they want to play on a non-legacy server, we can say: join x server, they should have some people RPing there. So vote on your favorite name of a server! People from any server have always been able post their events, post their linkshells... But the majority of the RPC plays on Balmung, so of course we're going to recommend there first.
Me:
I'm saying a poll shouldn't be used to decree something as unofficial. I said(if you read the Gilgamesh thread), a poll should be used to gauge interest and anything within a relevant statistic(known as statistical significance)(15%) should be given a voice.
From there, if you use the RPC as an RP hub, you give that community a place where people can meet.
I addressed points of community togetherness, and how people don't need 100's or 1000's of people around to enjoy RP. Nobody has needed that for over 10 years, since MSN group chat shut down. People are just as happy with 20 as they are with 100.
I noted that communities within communities(with a context ill explain) don't work. What this means, in the way I'm saying it, is that in large RP communities(WoW, and for those old enough to remember, teenchat, eyechat, msn groups, rpghost) will gain groups/guilds/kingdoms/clans, and these will conflict. In normal RP(the last few) it's not an issue for your character to die. In groups like WoW guilds, guilds don't want to adhere to rules like this, and will harass others while refusing to be treated as an entity that can be challenged.
It breeds elitism and dissonance, and more often then not communities will RP within their guilds as opposed to with other people(invalidating the idea that keeping the community together is even necessary).
When you reach this point of understanding how RP communities work closing them into one area is known as a bad idea, because they will separate into their own states. Letting people flourish where they want without this potential harassment and inevitable elitism, while giving them a voice if they reach statistical significance, is both valid and healthy.
Condemning that while calling yourself a hub for role play is what results in things like we have now - fractures. I noted this and told the moderators that they need to adapt to these things, not overlook them or ignore them. They need to adapt and survive, or centralize their advertisement away from a role play hub and into a balmung only forum - otherwise the community will decay and die. That is inevitable.
Three years under your belt doesn't make you immortal.