About the new rule discord forum.

[Nikki Nixon]

As most have seen you can now suggest to add change or remove rules. Just wanted to talk about this here for people interested. While i see its great doing this to clear up gray areas and refine the rules. I must say as well there are cons to this. Yes it will make role play better, and a better overall experience. But it will also add more in depth rules. This will later cause more rule break due to there being new rules and changes to older rules everyone is used to. and new ones where people dont know or are not used to yet. Also with people reporting players for these new and or changed rule breaks like what happened with zerg. This will bring a bigger work load to the staff team. and over time bring the player base down further cause of bans and more rule breaks.

Over complicating rules is good and also bad. Like with the Zerg rule its killed most role play around gangs doing things together combat wise. No matter how good the RP its a big no and IMO this has cause more damage than it was meant to solve but again thats my opinion, Adding more rules will kill any freedom and creativity in new and fun role play and i can see A LOT of rule play more than role play. And adding new rules at this stage i think will make the server feel robotic where players are following a strict rule set. Cause the RPUK staff do a great job in enforcing the rules in place and thats a good thing so thats why i fear more rules being added and some overcomplicated.

It may be fine for long standing players. But we need to think about the new player that are coming in, How much is it to take on all these rules and also learning how to RP and stay in RP on the level most are used too these days. Balance is key and is something is added then simplicity with new players and the long rule set in mind should be considered. Wanted to hopefully talk about this a bit with anyone who is interested. I want to see players come back. new players stay and everyone just have fun and not worry about new rules and tip toe around and feel like within the rule set they can feel like the can role play anything and be as creative as they want and a rule not to say they cant do that.

 

[Rushi1006]

I agree, and I really hope this server doesn't fall for this same trap that other servers do. Adding more rules will cause much more damage to roleplay on the long run than good, as this will just cause people to focus too much on rule breaks rather the RP itself.

From what I've seen, most of the rule suggestions are already stuff that fall under common sense or are stuff that can be easily dealt in-game and don't need any rule additions. I'm unsure what's the exact reason why they requested for rule suggestions, but I will assume it's because of the current state of RP to which I think it's better to sit down with each faction leaders and work from there but of course it's easier said than done.

 

[Miyoko]

I agree too even though I think some rules need to be reworked or atleast need more depth like Bullying and the rules which have no description/explanation, but of course some are fine as they are.