Restricting codenames

[sovereign]

If a less known player tried to rp Mon'star today and we had no Mon'star currently, said player would be booed off the server.

Same for a Propsector or anyone else.

The old hands lament "Where has the excellent, perfect rp gone?"

I'm suggesting its been locked away behind the attitudes of "We aren't going to let you do that--we were here first."

It's not that new Mon'stars and the like don't show up--most just leave when they realize that they are never going to be at liberty to play those ideas until they get "accepted" by some current bloc of power players.

my rant, my opinion.

I agree with the idea of changing codes--it was the "hundreds of indies who don't follow rules comment" that got to me.

Really? If someone tried to setup Mon'Star, I think it would possibly be nudged a little but a lot of people would be interested in it, rather than booing it off. Exhibit A, check out zapp and Gronath's Fantasmas de la Nube Siniestre story. Yes, that's a terrorist ID application, or so I've been told.

The oldie grip is a lot weaker than some seem to think- I can think of numerous examples, such as zapp, Del, Dusty Lens, and (not to be vain:crazy:) myself, all of whom have joined rather recently, and gathered a nice bit of respect around the forums. I didn't even have Skype until quite recently, and I honestly believe that any idea will be taken for what its worth, regardless of who says it- then again, if you have a good track record, you might be trusted with more, but a genuine good idea is a genuine good idea. Same thing with genuine good RP, and genuine bad RP. Faction vs indie, oldtimer vs newbie, its irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. What matters is the idea, the post, the RP- everything else is secondary.

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