Really, now....

[Laowai]

Getting people to RP is fine, except if you have noticed, many of the Corsairs in Gamma that do not RP are actually in their own little "factions," and throughly refuse to join the forums or RP at all...

Take [TT], for example. They have been here for several months. No forum involvement, barely any to no RP whatsoever.

Try converting those people, Laowai....Times have changed. It's not like we can convert every single person anymore. Half the people on the server in one day are not even registered on the forums.

If you want me to adopt a nice little RP-Fostering attitude, let's get these players on the forums, eh?

I think a nice Rp'ing attitude, especially to English speakers, is much better than a hardcore one that alienates people.... but that aside... ive been online almost every night (china time) for the last last 2 weeks and haven't seen a TT vessel in that whole time.... some of these "mini factions" seem to be flashes in the pan... and they dont last.... Try getting these people to RP? I mean no disrespect but how many of you have actually tried??? speaking from my own limited experience, whenever i have pulled someone up in Gamma, given them tips and helped them, they have been more than willing to listen, respond and change what they were doing. I'm sure some people don't, as i said i acknowledge the fact that there are some bad eggs... but i seriously think that a lot of this is being blown out of proportion and is being carried along by Hype...


Another reason why i think a lot of people dont join the forums and RP is that they are not native English speakers..... Now i know this is a side issue, but i personally think its a huge one in terms of RP and server attitude.... i suspect personally, and i dont know if I'm right, that many of the TT people were not English speakers..

In this regard the community needs to get a little real and stop whining.... this is an English speaking server, but we have a lot of people online with us who dont speak English, or if they do, their English is rudimentary at best ( I feel im qualified to say this as i have been a TEFL teacher for the last 3 years)
... i suspect that the issue of RP some times is less that they wont do it, but more that they can't. So, the community needs to have a hard and fast policy on how it deals with non English speakers. Because if we are accepting them into our community (and im not saying yes or no to this) then we will as a community need to accept that role play screw ups are gonna happen, because these people dont speak our language. They are NOT going to join the forums unless they feel confident enough with their English because they simply don't understand what is being said.

My personal opinion is that we should be mentoring new players into Role play if they mess up - and i have on my own steam been doing this in Gamma with my Corsair Character - but it is limited when the person at the other end of the chat doesn't speak your language. Now... in my opinion, we as a community are faced with a choice:

We accept non English speakers as part of the Discovery community, which means that many people here need to shut the hell up and realise that RP mess ups will happen because Joe Blogs simply doesn't understand what you're telling him - OR we need to exclude them from our community with a multi-lingual disclaimer that essentially says : "This is an English speaking server ONLY, if you do not speak English you Will find playing the game very difficult" - this is a practical communicative issue that i face everyday professionally - you simply cannot have it both ways people.

On top of that, my original whinge still stands... for the English speakers out there - people need to calm down and stop telling people how to RP- So what that there are a bunch of Gunships and a cruiser hanging around Crete - Here's a RP reason for you:

It;s the Corsairs Home system........ so read between the lines.

I have been a part of the community now since December - so all of 3 months. I have honestly completly enjoyed my time here and intend to stay for the duration. But really... a lot of people need to just get on with their own game and stop telling other people how to play theirs.

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