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(03-17-2015, 04:20 PM)Erik Mynhier Wrote: The goal of this Summit is to bring together active Free Companies of Balmung to meet, interact, story plan, settle issues, and foster cooperation with other FCs for larger activities (raids, airship building, exc). As the FCs and housing areas took hold, our once mixed server has begun to retreat into itself. More and more rp is being done and planned by FCs only and restricted often times to the housing areas. This Summit will seek to change all that. This is an effort to bring the server together, so help me do that.You have denied that this summit is in any way a governing force for rp on Balmung, and yet the wording of your post, (story planning, settling issues) seems to suggest otherwise. Â You also note that you wish rp to not only be done and planned by FCs, and yet have restricted this meeting to FC representatives only.
I do not mean to insinuate that this venture is done with anything other than the highest ideals in mind. On the contrary, I applaud your enthusiasm and initiative on this matter.
I have been part of communities where certain guilds and leaders assume a sort of 'RP gatekeeper' role, in which all important rp decisions affecting the server are put through them. Some even tried to elect themselves a sort of rp politician.
I merely post this to humbly request this summit not stray into such territory, as it demeans the enjoyment and effort many of us put into creating and participating in open rp on a regular basis. I rarely have problems finding rp when I want it, and much of it is done outside of FC wards. Sometimes its just a matter of going out there and doing, not talking about the perceived problem (which I would debate exists) but simply walking outside your ward.... and rping. Be amazed at how many people you can pick up if you start looking for them.