[Discuss] "roleplaying island"

[James]

Tom wrote:
> I think I just realized how much the game has changed.
>
> 5 years ago, there would be no discussion as to whether your character 
> has to accept a forged document if you know OOC that it is forged. We 
> would have taken it and ran with it.
>
> I think we need to re-think the definition of FEI. Maybe we really do 
> need a roleplaying police, though I still think that is way too much 
> Gestapo for my taste. Or maybe we just need to kick the bad 10% or so 
> off the island. Or maybe only people with a minimum of x roleplaying 
> medals are allowed in at all.
>
> I don't know. But it shows a great deal that this "buy title" thing 
> happened on FEI, where I would have at least expected people to accept 
> an in-game event as real and roleplay with it. On other islands, it 
> wouldn't hurt as much.
>
>
>
You yourself, Tom, lack of medals are not a measure of if a person is 
trustworthy or not, so why would you make it that role play medals are a 
measure of how good someone role plays?  I assume that a lot of these go 
to people who do long role plays that people like, but not everyone role 
plays like that.  I myself do not like doing long role plays, that 
doesn't mean I don't stay in character.