What's your Minecraft Username?: UrAJinx
What's the title of your suggestion?: Limit OOC to Staff Only
What's your suggestion?:
From the title you can already have an idea about what this suggestion is well.. suggesting. Limiting the OOC chat to staff members only. The main reason I'm suggesting this is SRP is a roleplay focused server, however, as the years went by the solely purpose of this began to decline. More people began to talk in OOC rather than focusing on roleplays itself. Yes, SRP is a social platform but for primary roleplay purposes only and for the focus of it. I'm sure the players can agree with me that back in the good server days where SRP where was at its peak we rarely saw OOC being used- instead everyone was focus on their roleplays and developments. Personally, I feel like half of the players get on just to talk in OOC than roleplay. Which is why I believe OOC should be limited to staff members only to announce important things such as the server restarting, events, or anything else that's deemed necessary. Lately, OOC hasn't been known for its best reputation- which can be said more in Yonio's forum post. Discord for this community is used for a reason, if players want to socialize rather then roleplay then they are more than welcomed to speak in these community Discord servers or even DMs or through the server friend list chat function.
Limiting Staff to OOC only will help restore a good portion of the immersive and focus of roleplaying.
- As I stated earlier, the SRP server was created as a primary focus to roleplaying. After all it does have the word School Roleplay in it.
- OOC has been well consistent and excessive for as long as I can remember. I do know that /ooc off is a thing however, even with that command it doesn't help that half of the community only gets on to socialize to speak in OOC and chatter.
- There's already been a decline in roleplay and with those who have been with the server for a long time or since the beginning of the server can agree with this. With OOC being the dominant focus- at least thats what it feels like and what I've noticed- can cause these long-term players to feel demotivated just to get on the server when there is rarely roleplay happening. It's most likely another reason why we don't see players approaching random players to be friends with one another like how it was in the past- because they're either focused on talking in OOC or they're AFK (which AFK is not a problem life happens).
- When new players join it's already hard enough as it is to fit in or learn how the server works. New players join the server almost everyday because they see the words Roleplay in the servers title its another reason why OOC should be limited to staff members only. It makes the new players have hard time for them to be engaged with the server and roleplay if there are people just talking in OOC rather than running around the server and chatting ICLY. This most likely gives the idea to the newer players that more people focus on the OOC chat rather than roleplay itself.
As a disclaimer I'm not saying that everyone puts their primary focus on OOC nowadays. This is just from my observation of the server over the years I've been here that it feels like OOC has became the primary focus.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
With my reasons stated above limiting staff members to speaking in OOC only will hopefully revive the primary focus of roleplay like how it was when the server first launched.
Feel free to leave your feedback. This suggestion was not intended to target people instead it was bringing up an observation and opinions on my behalf.
I also want to apologize if this is worded poorly as I'm half awake.
What's the title of your suggestion?: Limit OOC to Staff Only
What's your suggestion?:
From the title you can already have an idea about what this suggestion is well.. suggesting. Limiting the OOC chat to staff members only. The main reason I'm suggesting this is SRP is a roleplay focused server, however, as the years went by the solely purpose of this began to decline. More people began to talk in OOC rather than focusing on roleplays itself. Yes, SRP is a social platform but for primary roleplay purposes only and for the focus of it. I'm sure the players can agree with me that back in the good server days where SRP where was at its peak we rarely saw OOC being used- instead everyone was focus on their roleplays and developments. Personally, I feel like half of the players get on just to talk in OOC than roleplay. Which is why I believe OOC should be limited to staff members only to announce important things such as the server restarting, events, or anything else that's deemed necessary. Lately, OOC hasn't been known for its best reputation- which can be said more in Yonio's forum post. Discord for this community is used for a reason, if players want to socialize rather then roleplay then they are more than welcomed to speak in these community Discord servers or even DMs or through the server friend list chat function.
Limiting Staff to OOC only will help restore a good portion of the immersive and focus of roleplaying.
- As I stated earlier, the SRP server was created as a primary focus to roleplaying. After all it does have the word School Roleplay in it.
- OOC has been well consistent and excessive for as long as I can remember. I do know that /ooc off is a thing however, even with that command it doesn't help that half of the community only gets on to socialize to speak in OOC and chatter.
- There's already been a decline in roleplay and with those who have been with the server for a long time or since the beginning of the server can agree with this. With OOC being the dominant focus- at least thats what it feels like and what I've noticed- can cause these long-term players to feel demotivated just to get on the server when there is rarely roleplay happening. It's most likely another reason why we don't see players approaching random players to be friends with one another like how it was in the past- because they're either focused on talking in OOC or they're AFK (which AFK is not a problem life happens).
- When new players join it's already hard enough as it is to fit in or learn how the server works. New players join the server almost everyday because they see the words Roleplay in the servers title its another reason why OOC should be limited to staff members only. It makes the new players have hard time for them to be engaged with the server and roleplay if there are people just talking in OOC rather than running around the server and chatting ICLY. This most likely gives the idea to the newer players that more people focus on the OOC chat rather than roleplay itself.
As a disclaimer I'm not saying that everyone puts their primary focus on OOC nowadays. This is just from my observation of the server over the years I've been here that it feels like OOC has became the primary focus.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
With my reasons stated above limiting staff members to speaking in OOC only will hopefully revive the primary focus of roleplay like how it was when the server first launched.
Feel free to leave your feedback. This suggestion was not intended to target people instead it was bringing up an observation and opinions on my behalf.
I also want to apologize if this is worded poorly as I'm half awake.
