Before banking was established people tended towards using alts as bankers, the only change in that respect is, it's become easier and more IC. But forgetting that point, as it's not really the message you're trying to bring across here...

I have tried to RP abilities and owning items that my character doesn't have, and people aren't generally impressed with it. I agree with you, roleplay is much better without these mechanical constraints, unfortunately ignoring the mechanics in place raises two issues that I can think of.

Firstly, mechanics help dissolve the issue of godmodding, without them, it's hard to determine what is godmodding and what isn't; while mature players will happily play fairly, there are many players who want to be the hero all the time, and mechanics are one way of resolving that problem. To further this point, players who do use the mechanics to prove their characters worth will feel cheated by players who roleplay their worth only. This is an extreme way of saying, if you trade something you don't have, there's a good chance someone will be annoyed by it, even if they're just a witness to the trade.

Secondly, when you ignore or bypass constraints, you are opening up the possibility for immersion instability, for example, when you come to invent something new, which people are bound to do, it might become common knowledge but conflicts with something already in place about the planeshift world. e.g. a ynnwn's platinum bow, for those who don't know ynnwns have allergies to platinum, there is nothing wrong with this, so a small circle of roleplay is created that is simply wrong, and will break the immersion for more knowledgeable players. New inventions are not the only cause in this respect.

I believe these are two reason why constraints are made in the first place, so, even if we were to roleplay more without the strict use of constraints, unless we address these issues a different way, planeshift's community will just go a full circle.

So, how would you address these?

I think NPCs should know other NPC's in the same quest chains, at least if they're close together step-wise; if they don't already that is .

playerbase?

Unless one of us wanted to become a dev specifically for that reason, there isn't gonna be a change any time soon...

am I right?

The best part of Planeshift is YOU. The RolePlaying which makes these characters be whatever you want them to be (within reason, people don't like godmodders who's skin can't be cut or is mage who can cast any type of spell when really they don't know any...)

You can make your character something it's not, which is the best part cos it doesn't limit it to just it's abilities, it's got a life, it's not just a box with a bunch of levels in it.

Well the wait for this game is worth it...

If it wasn't nobody would play 

It is a brill game, once you know how it all works and where everything is.

I don't have mIRC so I don't know about that but I guess it is.

Edit:
Unless you're just not connected to it, somehow.

(About this as your description, not the story in this forum topic)

That's fine, but perhaps change it up a little. Don't dictate what our characters do, but say something like "if one was to open the book, they would see that[...]". Don't use second-person pronouns, just describe what "may" be seen.

well maybe instead give titles to the description like Zwenze had suggested to me.

Maybe put 'Visual Description:' in front of the description, and 'Birth story:' story about the birth.

So that the reader knows what he/she's reading, and can deside for themselves which they wanna read without having to read any of it first to realise.

But anyway that is a little  so...

Having read through most of it again, I still can't believe you're not english. What did you get someone to translate it and write it out for you? 

(I'll edit this tomorrow and say about my thoughts on the actual story but I've run out of time now)