Let's examine the claims of RP in the case of the house thefts. To justify the house thefts as RP the claim was made that the thief was hired by someone in Oja to make people feel less safe in Hydlaa so that they would want to come visit Oja more. So after almost a month in RL what actions were taken by the thief to support this claim and make any kind ofRP out of this? Were any posters posted in Hydlaa talking about the house thefts anything to the affect talking about how dangerous Hydlaa has become? No not that I know of and none that the thief could point out. Any IC conversations between characters talking about the house thefts and talking about how much safer other cities are? Again none that I know of and none claimed by the thief. In short after almost a month since the first robbery can you point to a single act done by the thief to forward this so called RP other than to continue robbing houses? I know the thief was looking for a 4th house to rob since I followed him checking every GH door in Hydlaa and Gug as the first thing that happened after that character logged in.
One of the things I learned when I first started playing this game is that it is bad form to force your RP onto others. You should invite others into your RP if you have something you want to do that will have major affect on another player. I would say stealing items of great value ( be they of real value or just personal value) is something that has a major affect on lots of players. In this case it seems this so called RP was forced on a lot of people with no invitation
1) If you leave a house open, you're inviting thieves in. The RP wasn't forced, it was invited by the guilds leaving their doors unlocked. It's not too hard to keep a door locked.
2) There was no IC posters, talking, etc., because the guilds who were robbed went crying to the GMs to get the banhammer laid down, rather than treating the offence as an IC offence. On a real role-playing server, they'd be told to suck it up, RP it out and see what happens.
3) Of course he was looking for a fourth house to rob, he was always looking for houses to rob. It's what house-thieves do. Simple solution: Keep your doors LOCKED if you don't want to be ROBBED. It's goddamn COMMON SENSE.
Leaving a GH door unlocked is as bad as unloading your platinum in the plaza and then logging out for an hour.