The hidden fun in Roleplaying

i see a real lack of Role Play on the server. Most people are trading or BSing in the Arena

and the only time i see server population really mean anything is during events. then everybody scatters. It's kinda not fun

well Role playing doesn't have to consist of taxing or bounty hunting. Theres ways to roleplay without ever firing a shot at another player. Its the one thing i think many people don't have. it's called:

IMAGINATION

You don't need to tax someone as a pirate. A pirate doesn't chase money. they chase booty! Treasure! Items of high value! Tell a trader to hand over their cargo or you'll space them. Cops just don't have to hunt pirates. They could fly around and respond to a domestic disturbance call about the emissions put off by a mining vessel. Smugglers and traders just don't have to move JUST high value cargo for profit. They can move say weapons from a battleship to a Freeport station because the Freeport station had theirs stolen. Mercenaries don't have to sit and wait for a bounty to show up or a trader to ask for an escort. A mercenary could just be flying around and interfere with some injustice going on without expectation of a reward and get involved in a bigger plot of some sort. These are only what i've just come up off the top of my head. using my

IMAGINATION

it can go further. Dirty cops. Vigilante pirates, traders opening cargo they were specifically told not to open and so forth. Theres no such thing as a dumb idea. all you gotta do is roll with it sometimes. This is a game after all and it's meant to be fun.

yeah, server population isnt' the greatest 75% of the time. But the Galaxy News System needs stories and pieces to publish. Krate needs things to expose,

is anybody down to at least be a little open to using their

IMAGINATION?

why's that?

And what i posted is what i wanted Focks Industries to be about: non-combative role-playing. But since i don't have the patience or the time of day to build a character from scratch, i went and joined another clan. Focks Industries only exists in name now, but its still the mega corporation it's always been

Speaking of patience or time of day, thats something a lot of people don't have also. people who play this game dust it off for old times sake, but go back to playing whatever it was they were playing before out of boredom. others have a job, and wife and kids to take care of so maybe the only time they get to play this game is during events

New players also are affected. if i were a brand new player to CF and didn't know what to expect, and saw 12/15 people in Arena, i'd get a little confused. "I thought this was an RP server?" I'd say.

To avoid a double post, i just edited this one:
I don't write GNS for grins. Those are things that could be acted out on the server. You can always PM me here if something happened on the server thats news worthy. Events and generic RP don't count. Generic RP is "so and so taxed someone and then blew him up." that's boring.

but it's still too common of RP. I want to spice things up...

thats right. and theres ways to do that without needing to tax or collect a bounty

theres no "right" or "wrong" way to RP. I'm just saying things could be more fun