Qyrenh Kalsang

Hey guys, we're all about the wuv!

Em, because we care about it? About the quality of RP? Because we think we might, after years of experience, have something to contribute? If my experience on CN is anything by which to go, however, clearly I am wasting my time. I have encountered nothing but hostility here. I wonder why.

This is the crux of it for me. I may be new to CN, but I'm an old hand at this sort of thing, and I have three hard and fast rules by which I abide and by which I expect everyone with whom I roleplay to abide, and they are these: 1. No forced RP. 2. No forced RP. 3. NO FORCED RP! This is a game. It's supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be a vehicle to let your imagination and creativity run wild in a minimally managed virtual space, with bajillions of other people to play along. Don't get me wrong here. I am not by any means advocating a 'nothing bad can ever happen to my nation because I said so bwa ha ha' approach-- that, to my mind, is godmoding. Perfectly reprehensible. But if you want to engage in active RP with another player or set of players, contact them first, and see if that's interesting to them. It's the easiest thing in the world. the game and the forum are set up for you to do that. The most important thing to remember is that, on the other end of these country names and leader names, are real people, who might have real jobs, real schoolwork, real research, real children, real social lives, and very little time to devote to consternation by internet games-- do we want to drive people away or draw them in? The CN world is way bigger than the real world, and we have to allow for spillover. Plus, different people's storylines don't converge. That's endemic to a massively multiplayer online simulator like this, limited to a small, Earth-sized map. If we want this game to be fun, respect for other players has to be at the absolute root of what we do. I demand it and I expect everyone should.