On another note, all of us have been told (as players) by our Event-Team:
We on Leanon were also told during an ingame-talk with our Event-Team by Limai (translated):
All kinds of things happened before the war-event that roleplayers could bring forth as IC-arguments to underline different IC-opinions and defend their Nations - IF they even knew about those details that had happend. Which we do not. It might as well be possible that on Arispotle the Empire started the war, who knows? I do not know anything; so I cannot discuss those things IC at all. And so players from Leanon do feel like being outcast of roleplay when such a war is discussed that has never happened on Leanon...
I thought it was not really fair OOC to impose your own (Aniro-)"truth" on everyone present while knowing (or because of knowing?) that our characters would not be able to oppose this "truth" because we as players do not have the insider-knowledge about Aniro-events to be able to talk about this topic. So much for the problems with distinguishing IC from OOC...
P.S.: I just found Icus' own note again:
Tamarea
The transition will be designed with role-playing, so it will be possible to update the lives of the characters without breaking their story. Structures that have been created by the players, should be preserved as fully as possible.
We on Leanon were also told during an ingame-talk with our Event-Team by Limai (translated):
Limai
You, Icus, might remember, that your character explained at the Assembly in Pyr IC that the Matis had started a war and that an outpost in the Witherings had been held by the Circles of the Zorai government. You explained via an OOC-comment that the war between the Empire of the Fyros and the Kingdom of the Matis has happened on Arispotle and Aniro. So you as a player might have thought "2 outnumber 1, so Leanoners should accept this". But this is not thought-out well enough!Everyone knows that the events went differently on each Server/Shard. There is no perfect solution for that. The players from Aniro wish that all roleplayers should deal with the individual stories/history of other characters with tolerance and respect. Nobody shall accuse others of their stories being "wrong"/lies. We can only trust in the mutual consideration of roleplayers that they will tolerate little differences.
Nobody wants to sacrifice their character's personal past. Roleplayers want to play with respect for others and expect the same respect for themselves. The alternative would be to define an official past which would force many players and lead to disruptions of personal storylines of characters, instead of just avoiding details of specific events.
All kinds of things happened before the war-event that roleplayers could bring forth as IC-arguments to underline different IC-opinions and defend their Nations - IF they even knew about those details that had happend. Which we do not. It might as well be possible that on Arispotle the Empire started the war, who knows? I do not know anything; so I cannot discuss those things IC at all. And so players from Leanon do feel like being outcast of roleplay when such a war is discussed that has never happened on Leanon...
I thought it was not really fair OOC to impose your own (Aniro-)"truth" on everyone present while knowing (or because of knowing?) that our characters would not be able to oppose this "truth" because we as players do not have the insider-knowledge about Aniro-events to be able to talk about this topic. So much for the problems with distinguishing IC from OOC...
P.S.: I just found Icus' own note again:
Icus
For nyenor : events like this never occured on aniro (and probably arispotle), so try to do like Salazar and avoid beeing too specific about this kind of event :p
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