I'm honestly fine with Revvy's suggestion and yours both. We can have both options. As long as the warning says that "some players use this channel for RP" and not "this is the RP channel".
Around is NOT the RP channel. It never has been. Sometimes being used during events does not equal being a dedicated RP channel. As the OP says, it's commonly used for talking among players who aren't teamed. I would even argue that this is what it's used for most of the time. If it were meant to be a roleplay channel, it would be named Roleplay, not Around.
I'm perfectly okay with roleplayers using it for RP but they have to accept that it's not the channel's only function. Sure, use it for your RP but don't get mad that other people use it to speak OOC. If you want a channel just for RP, make a dedicated RP channel.
I don't know how good of an idea this is but a Roleplay tag that causes the tagged player's text in the Around channel a different color could also be a thing, maybe? We could use a Roleplay tag anyway.
The RP community and the non-RP community can peacefully live alongside each other. But it would take effort from both sides of the conflict. Right now I'm seeing a lot of "Your fun is wrong and our way of playing the game is the only right way", which is getting quite annoying.
Around is NOT the RP channel. It never has been. Sometimes being used during events does not equal being a dedicated RP channel. As the OP says, it's commonly used for talking among players who aren't teamed. I would even argue that this is what it's used for most of the time. If it were meant to be a roleplay channel, it would be named Roleplay, not Around.
I'm perfectly okay with roleplayers using it for RP but they have to accept that it's not the channel's only function. Sure, use it for your RP but don't get mad that other people use it to speak OOC. If you want a channel just for RP, make a dedicated RP channel.
I don't know how good of an idea this is but a Roleplay tag that causes the tagged player's text in the Around channel a different color could also be a thing, maybe? We could use a Roleplay tag anyway.
The RP community and the non-RP community can peacefully live alongside each other. But it would take effort from both sides of the conflict. Right now I'm seeing a lot of "Your fun is wrong and our way of playing the game is the only right way", which is getting quite annoying.
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