There's nothing inherentaly wrong with being a bit clique-y at the end of the day, I just hate that people throw it around as being negative.
For example:
We've kind of allied ourselves with a Heavy RP shell that many of those in my group wouldn't really fit in with. This isn't to say we wouldn't get along with them (We do) but our RP values are VERY different. They believe in High Immersion, IC most of the time chat; we believe in OOC most of the time, medium immersion chat. Our guilds are very different, and was founded on completely different belief systems. Trying to bring the two together in the same guild would be disastrous. It just wouldn't work.
Our IC guilds probably won't work either. They are a much nicer organization than us, we're one after power "by any means." I can see a lot of problems should we ever meet ICly. And that's IF we ever meet ICly, cuz it's quite possible we may not, neither side if forcing the issue of us HAVING to RP with each other. And that's fine!
Here's the thing: We're are actually quite friendly OOC. I talk to them quite often, and we have plans to take them with us when we do endgame. This is where the clique's end and where they should end. At the end of the day, we have our own corners, but we're nice to each other and understand each other! We don't need to be 100% inclusive to be nice to each other and it doesn't even seem clique-y.
I think at the end of the day, sometimes people are trying so hard to be inclusive they are hurting themselves, but at the same time their is no reason to be nice to other groups. Clique's are only bad when people begin to see themselves as better than anyone else around them.
For example:
We've kind of allied ourselves with a Heavy RP shell that many of those in my group wouldn't really fit in with. This isn't to say we wouldn't get along with them (We do) but our RP values are VERY different. They believe in High Immersion, IC most of the time chat; we believe in OOC most of the time, medium immersion chat. Our guilds are very different, and was founded on completely different belief systems. Trying to bring the two together in the same guild would be disastrous. It just wouldn't work.
Our IC guilds probably won't work either. They are a much nicer organization than us, we're one after power "by any means." I can see a lot of problems should we ever meet ICly. And that's IF we ever meet ICly, cuz it's quite possible we may not, neither side if forcing the issue of us HAVING to RP with each other. And that's fine!
Here's the thing: We're are actually quite friendly OOC. I talk to them quite often, and we have plans to take them with us when we do endgame. This is where the clique's end and where they should end. At the end of the day, we have our own corners, but we're nice to each other and understand each other! We don't need to be 100% inclusive to be nice to each other and it doesn't even seem clique-y.
I think at the end of the day, sometimes people are trying so hard to be inclusive they are hurting themselves, but at the same time their is no reason to be nice to other groups. Clique's are only bad when people begin to see themselves as better than anyone else around them.
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