The "Seriousness" level of RP these days

[.Gypsy.]

It's just a byproduct of the way this place has been for a long long time, during which serious roleplay gained no tangible results. The people who could be bothered are all gone or just play the game for what it is, a game. I'm never going to try to make an official faction again, certainly never going to file an SRP again. Too much risk of putting time and effort into something and then getting it shot down because it doesn't conform to somebody's idea of roleplay.

Yes, I was a moderator, yes, I realize that things work a little differently internally now (although not as hugely as some of you might suspect). I'm happy to do the whole krieg leader and faction maintenance thing, but after the NTF getting denied official status, the Consortium getting denied official status, the HF repeatedly having to re-SRP their ships, and the overarching hostile response to Alley's/Huggie's squid roleplay which was the first thing in half a decade that would've changed the nomads, I'll never see the point of any seriously game changing roleplay again unless a vast majority of the dev and admin team agree to it prior, and I think that's pretty sad.

This is a good post, and probably the most accurate.
People RP and care about there RP when they post it. But in general, unless there famous here (I hate to say this but it is true), they will be the only one that cares about there RP.

I would love to try and SRP something cool, but I'm not dumb enough to try.
I would LOVE to fly the Necrosis and play the evil Mon'Star' but I know no matter how much work I tried to do, It would NEVER be approved, or better yet, the Venator is awesome (I play it all the time in LAN SP) Granted those are really extreme examples lol but still..

More realistically, I really wanted to SRP a Corsair gunboat for a junker, but didn't even try. It really does depend on who you are here I think. (Edit: well I did start and try but got nowhere, so gave up trying)

An example like Durandal's.. When I made the Academy of Zoners, I went all out (for me anyway), made a shipyard for giving away free ships, even a news network, detailed info, and everything I could think of to make it good and interesting and pretty much I was the only one that cared. People wouldn't even give me feedback in the feedback thread when I asked a few times. Granted when I made it I didn't know about all the Zoner hate, but still.. It dissuaded me from ever trying again.

Now that's cool, I'm not QQ'ing about it, that's just how it is here I learned (and I was able to sell it for a LOT so it was nice that it was appreciated to that person/group). So I'll Say hi in game, and if someone shows an interest in RP, by RP'ing back, I'll gladly RP, but unless its someone I know will/likes RP, I stick to Greetings, and just RP when its called for (like for my faction or something like that)

I now pretty much play the game because its fun flying around in ships I like and only RP when/if its offered.

EDIT: @ david.starr

I started playing GURPS in 1993, and most people that plays D&D, for example, says GURPS is too complex

The same happened to me only it was with Palladium's RPG system, and not GURPS (and it was about 15-20 years ago)

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