Roleplay isn't really fun anymore if it's all planned out days before it happens. It used to be when you go ingame, you find people and have random chats, or an event will spark itself without the need of OOC explanations and such. With this new events forum RP just seems dead to me now, which is one of the reasons why I don't go in-game very much anymore. I'd like for it to be removed so we can RP the way we used to.
I mean, I can understand RP events being a sign posted or something outside of Harnquist's hut, since you can't actually go in-game and say there's a sign there without someone actually noticing it. But, when all RP's, including wars, are posted there, it just gets annoying. There aren't any people next to Harnquist's hut anymore except a few people who just made a new character. The tavern is almost always empty. There's no place to hang out anymore, you might as well just post in the events forum: "Party at the tavern, bring your friends!"
The events forum is supposed to be where events are posted, mostly give IC reasons for this event occuring, including logs. But when you "invite" people to a war, say Dwarven Star vs. Dwarvesbane, that's just getting out of hand. In the war in Iraq, you didn't see on the news, "Want to see a huge war? Come on down to Iraq, tickets are available next to the US army tanks, and seats are at the battlefield. See you there!" they just planned attacks, bombings, whatever, and moved out. There's no reason to announce things like that to the public. When I used to play as Mitaki, I had a few guild wars. I didn't announce it to everyone on the forums, or in-game, I just went along with it and told my guildmates that there was a war coming up, so we needed to be prepared.
