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[Ghost Hunter]

There are times where I truly wish to engage a fellow roleplay corp ICly in a grueling conflict that would threaten one of the two corps with capitulation and disband. But then I remind myself "Wait, the roleplay community is already small enough. We don't need less RPers around". Thus, I agree with the OP and think it would be beneficial if we all thought, every day after an IC conflict that may bleedover into OOC, "How boring would my space-life be without this person to clash against IC?". So let's all be friends and have space-coffee OOC while violencing each other's boats and (perhaps even more importantly) egos. No matter how much we may want to chop each other's heads off IC, it's quite important to keep things civil OOC so that we may have more pixelated heads to cheap off and have fun with in the future. Because who wants to even interact with someone who hates them OOC? No one.

Eternal cheesy anime-style frenemies and rivalries! Gogo!

[Arnulf Ogunkoya]

Tricky thing to do, but damned essential.

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The reason I mention this is because we have no way of going out for coffee, or even, usually, of seeing one another's faces, so it's pretty easy to start to conflate the person at the keyboard with the character on the screen. The closest we have is Backstage, here, with its rules on courtesy..

Which is a pretty damn nifty and important thing, now I think about it.

This is one reason I am grateful for, and usually try to attend, the London pub meets. It's difficult to get real OOC rage built up against the Imperials when they have done their best to get you wasted on tequila.

That said. IC Arnulf tends to try for a zen-like approach to conflict. He feels that getting angry will only make him careless.

[lallara zhuul]

Psyops, propaganda and flame wars are not good for the community?

Who would have guessed?

[Ava Starfire]

Everything said is true and win.

[Silas Vitalia]

I love most of you OOC but that does not mean I won't ruin your lives in game. Game is the important word. The two are different things.

If I had a friendly character then there would be tea and cookies on the regular.

My character is a bastard so as they say "prepare to die!"

[Ava Starfire]

Oh, indeed. I will kill juuust about everyone here for fun and glory and all.

I will offer hugs oocly though!

[Pieter Tuulinen]

*hands Kat some Katnip despite her protestations* First one is free.

Seriously though, it can be worthwhile checking yourself before you hit 'Post' - it is incredibly difficult to firewall your characters emotions from your own, especially given the effort we make to play our characters as believably as possible.

[Khloe]

I'd be far more likely to formulate a terrible impression of someone from the ignorant crap they say in OOC channels than their roleplay behavior.

[Synthia]

There are people that assume that when a character expresses a contrary opinion IC, that there was an OOC motive for making that opinion, and only an OOC motive.
This usually causes such things as conversation-spamming, and accusations in the "OOC" channel, about people "ruining rp".

Example:
Character belonging to group A is talking about something.
Character belonging to group B, criticises the conversation.
A and B have been established in EVE PF as being hostile to each other.
And yet, character A, tries to paint character B as having OOC motivations, and claims B is "ruining RP".

This idea that B should only engage IC enemies in a consensual-RP fashion, I believe is also damaging to the wider RP community.