[nl-videomaster]

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Originally Posted by AdrianGraber It has its losses (players) and its gains (quality).

I'm not against your entire argument or whatever, if anything I likely agree, but I just have to say that this [part of the comment] is not entirely true. I for example am a pretty good RP'er (IK I'm saying it myself, but I have my reputation and people to prove it) yet I wouldn't join any server that has applications, simply because there's a risk they won't accept you even though you give a decent or great application. The last time I wrote a great app at a server I won't name I got denied for "Famous Name". Jason Wilson is a famous name? Really? Useless waste of my time. Not everyone who has a wikipedia or imdb page is in fact Famous. (End NAME rant.)

And besides that people who are GREAT at RP aren't always great at applications. And people who are great at applications aren't always great at RP. An application gives you minutes, maybe even hours (OR DAYS) to finalize while the logic of roleplay in a dynamic situation (as happens in game) is tested nowhere. Nor is the actual knowledge tested as people can just look up the answers online while taking an application, without actually being understanding of what the courtesies and "rules" of the RP are.

Edit: I'm trying to say with this that the fact that someone knows how to write a great Character Story/Application doesn't always prove they know how to RP it. While some who doesn't want to bother writing one (like me) can still RP great without having written a character story.