As writers, I’d assume that we all share a similar passion for roleplaying. For many of us, the ideas that we introduce have likely been things that we’ve constructed over a course of several months or even several years. Upon creating these ideas, as roleplayer’s, I’d also assume that we also want to share what we create with other people. Every writer who makes one idea may always inspire the next writer, and so on. When it comes to different websites, and different communities, one thing will always stay the same; that passion to write. Roleplaying is what brings us all together, I’d say.
What I can also say, is that most of us have likely roleplayed for many years. At that point, the only thing that changes between each website and it’s community is the rules applied to them. Restricting people to certain things on a website for 3 months may be a good thing for people who are new to roleplaying as a whole, but for people like Rascaldees and myself, we come to bring our ideas and share them, because we want to see what we’ve invented come to life. But coming here, I see a lot of “play Yamatai” and “play Nepleslia”, and it almost seems as though you don’t want to allow something new to introduce itself. Nobody is saying “my idea is cooler than yours” or anything, people are saying “hey, I have this idea, can I bring it into your universe”.
Sci-Fi roleplay can’t possibly change THAT much between websites, that you have to be restricted to 3 months of playing something specific. It’s just not possible anymore. Most ideas that people come up with have either already been done by bigger names and franchises, or have been to some degree inspired by them. What I’m saying is that though the rules change a little bit between websites, there’s no way that a science fictional universe can change that drastically between communities. Wouldn’t you say that each universe is at least similar to each other? Now I’m not trying to be offensive, or even say like “oh this isn’t original” or anything, I’m just saying that things can’t really be all that drastic from each other.
Another note, is that this potential new faction that Rascaldees is introducing could be roleplayed as something very tiny, and maybe he could roleplay it as journeying through your universe as a creative way to discover the community and learn more about the universe you all have created. There IS a way for this to be done that may even be considered unique, and not only would Rascaldees’ faction develop, but his knowledge of the universe will too. Rather then restrict people to 3 months of playing Yamatai or Nepleslia, let people discover your universe the way that they find interesting. It may even encourage them to stick around.