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Alot of people have been messaging me lately about various problems in CNRP, involving people who get spun up on OOC talk and run their mouths. They start "not recognizing" the other person's post, valid or not, stop paying them the simple respect one gives to a fellow player of the game, and treat them unkindly.

That's about to come to a screeching halt.

If you want your moves, your nation, and your presence in CNRP respected, you have to give it. There is no middle ground.

TL;DR: Starting now, I'll be enforcing a policy of politeness on this forum to cut back on all the OOC hate-speak. Violators beware.

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Yea. It would be nice for people to be nice more often Even in wars, you should still be nice [OOC-wise]. A RP war would be much funner if you both planned before hand waht would be destroyed, results, etc. And if you declare war then at least PM; the DoW weeks back on me I didn't even know until the 18th page... (was busy RL), but I get emails if someone messages me, and I check my email once a day.

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Since we've got a topic open here about respect, let me say a piece that I've been dying to post for quite some time. It has to do with respect for other people's RP.

Now I know some of you here are not from the United States. Welcome to CyberNations, you'll find a lot of us players are. The international community has gotten along great since admin implemented this game, except for a few hiccups in northern Europe that were dealt with by a particular player who still hangs around here. Despite that incident, I've been extremely proud to call myself a member of this community because of the respect players carry for each others' nationality.

That being said, I think it's time we have a little chat about people RPing territory that happens to belong to your real-life affiliation. It's been said that players are the only ones who have control over their nations. Some people seem to have forgotten that these days, and they have taken it upon themselves to play police and remind people of their country's cultural heritage and customs. Some people have been subtle in doing this, and some people have been outright aggressive about this, as far as bringing this out-of-character fact up on multiple occasions and not letting the "offending" players get any respite from it. Recently a war was declared simply because two nations, who currently feud over who is the "rightful" one of their nation, did not like this player choosing to roleplay as their real-life ethnic nation. Although it turns out that the player who was attacked was a ban-evading player who received justice, the important issue still remains at large and unaddressed.

This is out of control.

It's not a secret that I've been talking about my own experiences in this post. I've gone as far as blatantly stating this issue fairly recently here. The situation finally came to a boiling point in an out-of-character IRC chat yesterday when two players who claim Korean heritage approached me about "crushing" Korean heritage on the Korean peninsula. By crushing Korean heritage, they of course mean not making the Korean heritage the forefront of my RP. I enjoyed roleplaying Palintine as what it was: Palintine. My own creation. It had its own history, its own system of government, its own sports and pastimes, its own national heroes and villains, and none of this "stomped" the Korean heritage, it simply didn't place great importance in it. My people were loyal to the nation, not to the land.

Obviously this was not the first occasion, so I decided to get rid of the problem by giving Korea to one of them, and I'm kind of hoping they kill each other over it. I still believe I made the wrong decision because I gave into the people who were pushing me around, but that's my own nature. What this incident shows though is people believing that their own heritage trumps the player's ability to RP in the way they want. This is obviously not true. People make of the land what they RP, the land does not make the RP. An example of this is Sumeragi. Her nation is obviously Japanese, yet she is based in New Guinea. Sure, she has roleplayed a long and drawn out history of how her people ended up in New Guinea, but the point is that she has never controlled Japan, yet RPs Japanese nationals. If Sumeragi is allowed to do this, then why does the situation that has been outlined occur? It's illogical and hypocritical.

In conclusion, I'd like the RP community to take this rant/message for what it is: a message/rant from a disgruntled RPer who was mistreated because he did not RP up to other people's standards in regards to representing their RL country on their RL land. I want you to take this message and hold onto it so that the next time you go to tell someone that they're not roleplaying the real-life heritage of the Irish correctly (etc), you stop and think. And hopefully you remember the message.

A person's nation is theirs. It is not going to be an accurate representation of your heritage. It is an accurate representation of what the player wants it to be.

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Since we've got a topic open here about respect, let me say a piece that I've been dying to post for quite some time. It has to do with respect for other people's RP.

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A person's nation is theirs. It is not going to be an accurate representation of your heritage. It is an accurate representation of what the player wants it to be.

I must say that I have done some in-jest complaining about cultures over different lands. I'm a member of an internet community where it's natural to feel that. Say you have a person who role plays a Latin nation controlling Scotland. Naturally, I'd be completely against that. I'm not going to apologize for my feelings, because that's who I am.

Though, I do agree with your feelings hawk, you should not have given your lands away. Though, it is the downside of having so many people on a map. You're going to get screwed with the lands you've got. People take huge masses of land, because their SoI says they can. Let me tell you, if the map was blank, and I had an SoI of a hundred thousand, I'd take the same amount of land that I would if my SoI barely covered it.

That being said, aside from now with Forstellen, I've always roleplayed the culture of the people who normally reside there. Maybe that's a mistake on my part. Nobody is doing it the right way, nobody is doing it the wrong way.

When your decision gets to you, however, remember that Shilla now has mountanous land, while you have some relatively flat land. More city room. :)

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