[BazTheBlue]

I've felt pretty strongly about this the past couple of months. In some ways, I feel as if it's gotten worse, but I haven't been playing for as long as a lot of the veteran Sl2 players. Be that as it may, though, I've roleplayed for a long time, and when SL2's description on Byond sells it as a "Unique RP Mandatory fantasy setting", I can't help but feel as if my immersion has been shattered with a sledgehammer when I go to the fighting arena only to see half the fighters speaking like the public chat in a competitive MOBA game. There have been other instances were certain players were speaking in the say tab using morse code, only to have the admins ask them to stop, only for them to do it again five minutes later. That and the excessive use of (Omit) memes when using full icon chat makes the chat scroll easily makes me wonder why I bother sometimes. In a similar game I've played in the past, this sorta behaviour was actually punished when done excessively.

I never particularly want to have that "why bother" feeling, because the good roleplay I've had in this game has been genuinely brilliant stuff, and I've met a bunch of stellar people through it, but it certainly doesn't feel as if this unique fantasy setting is very RP mandatory at all most of the time.