User blog comment:Faeyrin/A question of common sense./@comment-25345260-20131026030931

From my perspective, people hanging around outside Falador is disruptive to the roleplay inside, but its 42's GE.

By that I mean, it's where the community gathers when it is looking for conversation. Place to socialise and meet-up. I was once told that we had the Rising Sun area when the most common trade point was East Falador, so it was already a large congregating spot.

Then the GE came out, and the traders left, but we stayed. It's been a meeting point for years in the community, longer than I've been around at least. Trying to get people to move will only succeed in getting you on ignore lists. We're a stubborn bunch.

As for roleplaying and skilling at once, it isn't always possible. Lets say you want to kill Dragons, use the bones for prayer. Would any character, feasibly, be able to kill an iron dragon every 30 seconds like my account can? No, of course not. It'd break the Godmodding rule to say so.

As a result, our community typically detaches themselves from their ingame skills as soon as they go in character, barring having the requirements for items used in outfits. It makes it more fair for someone who is new to the game to roleplay with someone with a max cape.