I don't expect this will be like FFXI was. I understand where Castiel is coming from with past experiences, and I was there too and I remember how policy had to be set up in order to help keep order. There were fewer people and more tensions back then. I also don't think everyone is going to just hold hands and sing kumbaya around the proverbial campfire. To be plain, there will often (if not always) be someone around that wants to do nothing more than rain on someone else's parade. It's happened in the past and having some mechanism to deal with it, I think, is a very sound idea.
And while I have checked it out and do think that the Starsider community sounds like it turned out to be quite the Utopia, for all of the reasons that you mentioned, I think we need to accept that we may be dealing with a smaller number of people and a different, albeit similar, set of issues. I do like a lot of the ideas, and if the RP community on Sylph were much larger I could see how this would have worked well for us. I think some preparation is warranted and Castiel's concerns are not without merit.
Ultimately no matter how we start off, we're going to have to make some adaptations and changes as we grow. I don't think the expectation here is that these discussions are to come up with 'standards' or 'guidelines' or 'ettiquite' or whatever term you choose to give to it are going to be set in stone. The RPC will have to adapt to the issues as they come and deal with them (or not deal with them as the case may be) accordingly.
And while I have checked it out and do think that the Starsider community sounds like it turned out to be quite the Utopia, for all of the reasons that you mentioned, I think we need to accept that we may be dealing with a smaller number of people and a different, albeit similar, set of issues. I do like a lot of the ideas, and if the RP community on Sylph were much larger I could see how this would have worked well for us. I think some preparation is warranted and Castiel's concerns are not without merit.
Ultimately no matter how we start off, we're going to have to make some adaptations and changes as we grow. I don't think the expectation here is that these discussions are to come up with 'standards' or 'guidelines' or 'ettiquite' or whatever term you choose to give to it are going to be set in stone. The RPC will have to adapt to the issues as they come and deal with them (or not deal with them as the case may be) accordingly.
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