Having played for enough time, I see the excess of IC goodness(though you can be OOCly friendly even RPing an "evil" character with /tells for example) as boring, and not as a good thing, though there is little support for scoundrels yet. Roleplaying highwaymen in the remote areas of the roads to Ojaveda or Bronze Doors would be quite a challenge, for example. Of course unlike your example, here there isn't a land without government filled with criminal groups. There should be a balance between friendly(but quickly becoming boring) characters RP and "evil" people RP, I have yet to see somewhere with this balance as neither of the two extremes are good.
Yes you are correct and I wasnt trying to encourage a land of goody goody feel nice but more to express that in my limited experience RP'ing servers have tended to promote or endear themselves to IC play as a criminal. I like that it has not degraded to that thus far. I also think that the idea of highway men or similar would work well. However it would need to be on a basis that there are areas where the NPC would not allow that to creep into, eg Hydlaa. This has been the flaw I Have seen in other situations, where the roleplay is great but its been one sided (as it is here just reversed). Too much of anything is bad and the people here both IC and OOC are friendly. OOC this is good if not great IC this can be a bit boring.
My comment was more to the fact that I like the way it has not degenerated into a FFA PVP fest. And that a new character can go about their business without being hammered but a large number of brigands/pirates or similar.
