Outlaws are people too, we have civilized moments, our true colors show if you're ever alone on any of the major roads... But I make good and well to let the underlings know that assaulting in hydlaa is suicide. And many of us do not wish to let others know that we are outlaws... So within the city it is not uncommon to hear of us using manners and being upstanding citizens...
OOCly however, we aren't bad people... And many people join guilds for ooc reasons, they just later build a IC reason about it. But in truth the very idea of a guild chat tab, and guild tag is ooc to the extream. If I had my way guilds wouldn't exist... Instead it would be affiliations, and one person could belong to several...
Ahem, but this is not about MY ideas now is it?
Its about the fact that we can be civilized should the situation call for it. Outlaw does not mean barbarian... It just means we're greedy and have no shame when it comes to getting trias... Now of course we have common sense, we're not going to attack random people in the plaza... or walk around being asses to further show our affiliation... Of course as such has happened, but such crimes that happen in the plaza usually go unchecked, it is important that when caught we outlaws face justice. There are many people who need to learn as such in our guild, I wont name names but we all know them... *cough*
But in the end ooc does play a huge effect IC, if you hate someone to the bone oocly, but ICly it would seem your characters would have no bad blood, I doubt you'll join their guild, even if its perfect for your character.
Paladin to outlaw? why so strange? People can repent from a crime filled past, and people can always fall back into a crime filled future. I think you imperials underestimate our RPing ability too much, of course I've heard the generalizations... Oh outlaws suck at role playing, yeah yeah blah blah... I admit once upon a time I agreed with such, but the outlaws have developed greatly into a powerful roleplaying installment. And quite frankly it has more growing to do, but I wont tolerate imperials pointing fingers... for allow me to say, you have three pointing back.
Consider this post a mixture of my ooc feelings, and ic feelings...
Edit: this is also a response to all those ooc tells I receive in game about the guild, and to all those PMs here on the forum I receive. Ta-da, heres your answer.