(12-15-2014, 06:22 PM)C Wrote:(12-15-2014, 05:24 PM)Kage Wrote: Your questioning it implies that there is something wrong or devious in the practice of it.
There is none. It's not a thing. It simply is.
What -is- a thing is the generosity and kindness of those who simply relinquish their plots to people, whether set up here or elsewhere. That is a thing.
See, now that actually makes no sense whatsoever. SE's housing system is their thing, and we don't have a lot of direct control over it. The practice of RPC members charging other RPC members to let them be there when they relinquish their house is a thing. It's our thing.
You can't look at it and say it simply is, as if we had nothing to do with it. It's part of our culture as RPC members. Part of our identity now. It's our thing because we choose to make it so.
I'll totally give you a discount on RP, though, Kage. 50% off my normal rates, because I like you.
My major issue with that mind set is that it basically says:
As a very small, minor part of the vast community that is Balmung and Gilgamesh (primarily these two at least) we do not want to conform with the rest of the server as a whole. Be it as a compromise or social protest to the rest of the server, we as an entitled community get to:
- Suffer losses that is going against a trend that extends well beyond our small community for the sake of some sort of integrity.
- Potentially generate a cliquish belief system that those who do not adhere to this mindset are less in-tune or "for" the community than those who opt for the perceived "good guy/gal" friendly neighbor gesture.
I'm not sure what the RPC Communities "thing" is supposed to be but a lot of the direction this seems to be going is dictating some sort of form of ethics on how FC's or private housing owners affiliated with the RPC should behave, as if our community sets the standard for servers, never mind what is going on in the digital economy and state thereof around us.
