User blog comment:Lieutenant General Richard Venables/Roleplay Assembly of Notables 2014/@comment-3112181-20140512025035

I know I'm an administrator and I can't be doing this, but there's just so many problems I have with this blog that I couldn't ignore it. It's nothing against Richard, but just the whole idea and concept that he's presenting. It really rubs me in the wrong way. So, to share my two cents, I'm going to do something very un-admin like and break this apart bit by bit.

Gentlemen, Ladies, Various others.

Various others? What other gender is there?

The time has come for us to form an Assembly of Notable Roleplayers, to organise a new Role Play order in which all Roleplayers have the opportunity to become great, where rank is determined by more then just your lvl and where petty matters such as Kings and Empires have no place!

The purpose of role-play, when it actually was entertaining, wasn't to "become great". It was a matter of self-expression and creativity. It was about spontaneity; as G pointed out, the "role-play" you're proposing here is too rigid and regulated, and perhaps that's where we went wrong in the first place. You can't just reform role-play because it's a personal matter and everybody has a different interpretation that works for them. I'd also like to point out that none of us have levels anymore since the game is... y'know... gone.

Where everyman is someone special and unique, where a man can be what he wants to be, be that, Commodore de Marquis Du'Casse or plain old Long John Silver!

Again, you're completely missing the point of role-play, which is to create your own persona and write their story yourself. Here you just listed off an Assassin's Creed character and a chef from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel. How is it role-playing at all if the roles are already written? Where's the innovation? The originality?

Where the only titles are the ones we make for ourselves, and where factions such as the Casa Di Royale do not exist, where when a high ranking member of a guild, (Exp. Lord Admiral Goldtimbers of the British Navy) becomes corrupt or greedy they can be removed by democracy and a sensable constitution!

See, the reason role-play has failed on here is because everybody tried to make titles for themselves. You had way too many lords and generals and emperors and commanders running around that the sense of realism and true enjoyment was eventually lost and things got ridiculous. Also, what was wrong with Casa Di Royale? You're basically saying that everybody in your "new role-play" has to be on the same page ideologically and there can be no competition, which, again, ruins the point.

No longer will men be slaves to tyrants but supported by other men, who form the workings of a great society!

Well isn't that inspiring.

We must form this Assembly to secure RP in the future, for if we dont, then put simply, Roleplay will die!

No. Roleplay IS dead. It died with the game, and it should stay dead. Basically what you're proposing is the creation of another Role-Play Council which, as everyone knows, did not work out here. I don't know why you think role-play is still alive. Calling yourself "Lieutenant General" doesn't do much, when maybe a grand total of four people still adhere to such titles.

I know that many of us dont want that to happen for if it did, where would we be?

Probably doing something productive.

''In this new Roleplay, we could still be Nobles or Beggars, EITC or Pirates, British or Spanish, (or French) still have our titles we come up with ourselves, (such as Earl of Edrington) for this adds to the back story of our characters! we could still have marraiges, still have daring raids on enemy bases and epic ship to ship battles between Britain and Spain! but without the baggage of Country and Empire Roleplay!''

You contradict yourself here. Basically, you're saying "you can be part of the British Empire but without the empire". See, I consider myself somewhat a pioneer of role-play. I don't know how much of an effect I had in its development, but I was there from the very beginning when it was strictly the EITC players' faction. It started off simple, and, understandably, you're preaching for simplicity; role-play is most enjoyable without the complications. However, such complications are inevitable, because role-play evolves. First, one calls themselves the chairman of the East India Company but soon they realise that they can, literally, call themselves whatever they want. Thus, the King of England is born. You can call for simplicity, but I guarantee you, it will change rapidly. There are virtually no limits in role-play; as I said, it's personal, and when you can become anything you want or grant yourself any title, there are going to be people who ruin it by going to extremes.

In short, I think that as long as the game is dead, the role-play should as well. I know what some of you may be thinking: '''JEREMIAH YOU NEVER WENT ON THE GAME YET YOU ROLEPLAYED, EXPLAIN YOURSELF. 'Well, at least when I role-played there was ''a game. It was there, and I knew it was there, therefore I didn't feel ridiculous taking part in the role-play. But to go around on the wiki "fighting" for the EITC Elites Marines Division Black Squadron Corps when literally no aspect of the game exists, it's just foolish. There simply can't be POTCO role-play without POTCO. Furthermore, if there is to be role-play here, this is no way to go about doing it. As I've said, role-play is all about what works for you. There shouldn't be a "constitution" or "assembly" telling us how to do it. What I see here is people trying to ressurect something that once was sacred and enjoyable and want to recreate it, when in fact you possibly can't. What made role-play so enjoyable before was the sense of novelty; the nostalgic feel of joining a new guild and sitting in at their meetings on Empty Kingshead. For me and many others, it wasn't about the history or ranks. Stop trying to bring back something that means something to many of us butcher it with completely meaningless titles.