Post by Torvaen Firehand on Nov 30, 2013 21:59:35 GMT -5
People were chatting about RP in the kin channel, and I thought about asking there, but thought it might be better addressed here: The Alliance is an RP-Friendly/Optional kinship, but is The Alliance an IC organization? Would players recognize each other in character as members of the same allied group? (Not that we necessarily would all know each other individually; we have a lot of members, particularly counting alts, and it's not like we hold regular mass-meetings.) Or, while we chat online and team up to do stuff, is that purely OOC, with IC connections only being those which players themselves create?
The latter seems to be more the case to me. If so, would people be interested in forming an RP-based group (or groups) of kin members that are actually connected on an IC basis? I'm not suggesting actually leaving the kinship (although that's one possibility; a smaller, medium-to-heavy RP-based kin that would be allied, with a shared chat channel), but forming groups within it. These might be linked by race, class, trade, place of origin, background, shared goals, common interests, mutual enemies, or even random chance (a bunch of travelers who just happen to be in the same place who wind up needing to cooperate). Heck, some of the groups might even be ICly at odds with one another, though I suggest we keep any such rivalries light-hearted and strictly IC.
I believe we did once have an attempt to form an IC Militia, but it seems to have long since fallen by the wayside, but what do people think of the idea in general? Worth trying, or should we keep our RP on its current seeming ad hoc basis?
The latter seems to be more the case to me. If so, would people be interested in forming an RP-based group (or groups) of kin members that are actually connected on an IC basis? I'm not suggesting actually leaving the kinship (although that's one possibility; a smaller, medium-to-heavy RP-based kin that would be allied, with a shared chat channel), but forming groups within it. These might be linked by race, class, trade, place of origin, background, shared goals, common interests, mutual enemies, or even random chance (a bunch of travelers who just happen to be in the same place who wind up needing to cooperate). Heck, some of the groups might even be ICly at odds with one another, though I suggest we keep any such rivalries light-hearted and strictly IC.
I believe we did once have an attempt to form an IC Militia, but it seems to have long since fallen by the wayside, but what do people think of the idea in general? Worth trying, or should we keep our RP on its current seeming ad hoc basis?