Hi Basil,
1st thing 1st, yes, I admit I missed muct of the EM event... To be honest, I was even thinking all the shards are running the same storyline of Lord Casca, that's why I was initially thinking GL is lagging behind since I mistake it as we should do the exact same things as Baja is going. It seems I did upsad Martyna abit on this issue, apologize on that, and things are more clear to me regarding on Great Lake EM events now.
As for the "role-play"... kindly allow me to elaborate abit on that. I am no referring to the role-play storyline which HC is taking against faction player is doing. Yes, HC is working on the storyline to make a better Brittannia in Trammel and Faction players are doing their part in Felucca, that's somethng similar enough. Actually, I am trying to say there is a problem if I put all the faction players to Great Lake Role-play community at this stage (I am referring to the way players are reacting, not the storyline). Allow me explain abit further down:
1). Faction players (at least the majority) can't role-play at this moment.. Why? Honestly, not all of them are very "in-character", and they tends to KOS as long as they meet their enemy. With my understanding, that's very much the basic RP rules... so I will say faction players role-play as Britannia protectors, but really, not many of them can match up with the "role-play standard" as what the decent RPers expected.
** There are even a time Lore Denin put his faction alliance group to RP community, but many faction players attack "organe" ppls on sight in Felucca... the case was so upsading and this become a serious issue to QdV (the guild in Spider city). They were so upsad and refuse to rp/declare RP wars with Denin's group... not to mention we received tons of complain from QdV... the worst is, many faction players votes for stop involving in RP wars cuz they said their are too much regulations... That's why OI- (Order of One) has not been engaged in decent RP events after that.
2). Regarding on the point of "time to rp". Again, if u ask it to Denin, the answer is obvious, he is playing the game on & off and it is a lie if I tell you he can commit a full participation in all the High Council meetings. Myself? Honestly... I work on nite shift
.... Needless to say by sending in an "off-character" faction player to HC meeting is just a nightmare... I won't lie to you, there are no suitable candidates... (at least not what I know of). Honestly, we are out of luck to get a guy who can do both faction and decent RP well... otherwise we won't come up to this pt now..
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Yeah, we realize long time ago Redlow has a hse in WW area almost a yr ago. And I though you have one in WW area too. Before I carry on my though on this issue, again, kindly allow me to elaborate the foundation of Wishpering Winds:
The turth is, Whispering Winds is a player-make/run town, which has NEVER a subordination to any single guild. Allow me to give some details: while Newcastle belongs to RKR (and its sub-guilds) or city of Yew is YM's, Whispering Winds is owner by many different guilds. Rememer Christopher from LHL (who was one player as a councilor in HC), he is part of the owner of WW. However, he is not the single one who run the town. We have Omura (once rped as Grand Marshal) from WWM, Denin from OI-, myself and some other guy (5 ppls) who owned Whispering Winds. We are more like "stock holders" of Whispering Winds, each with our own things to rp on during that time. The way we form WW is that, each of us contribute our houses for the public and agreed to operate these buidlings as a town. So technically speaking, if Redlow wants to setup a guild (or some other ppls)and take parts in the town ownership, they are free to do so... Infact I am even looking forward to see if I can co-operate with them.
I know ppls many think WW is more like a town purely from OI- or solely controlled by Denin/me... honestly, this is half right. For the "yes", most orginal WW town founders have quit the game... Denin is one of the few surviver and I hold up 6 main buildings in WW area... so it makes me like the main stock holder of WW. Furthermore, I am in same guild as Denin, so technially there is only 1 share holders left in town.. I won't repeat why WW seems to be lack of contacts/interactions with decent rpers, as I have done this earlier in this post (yet, Denin always enjoy to interact with you guys once he is active in UO, he did drop down to HC onc for awhile). For the "No", both Denin and I always welcome if any rpers can contact us. Not only we won't disagree other ppls to represent WW, we encourage ppls who are interested to contact us. I stronly believe WW will be a better place if more ppls from different guilds can join in. We will see how well we can "spread the shares/stock of WW around".
Currently, I have 6 houses and 1 from Denin (7 in total). Since there is only 1 faction guild existing in the area, if I don't it as a faction town, what else should I go for? Of course, things can change if there are other guilds are interested to join in the town.
I agree there are many things for me or the current WW owners need to work on to make it a better RP town, but really, I am open to others. Feel free to icq me 82049051 or leave a message in the forum... I am checking both from time to time. While I don't think we should put OI- (or the TB alliance group) to the rp community due to the problem as mentioned above, it won't stop any rpers to achieve something in WW. I said WW is "neutral" to HC cuz OI-(faction guild) is the only existing group in WW now... if there are more guilds to come in, we can surely adjust the role for the town.