User blog comment:Faeyrin/A question of common sense./@comment-4536066-20131024050917

I think you may have misunderstood that welcome message we get on our world. When it says, "If you prefer not to roleplay, please use a different world," it doesn't mean, "If you're not an active and participating member of the in-game RP games while logged in, you need to leave." What it means is, "This is the official RP world, so if you're someone who is going to be bothered by that, you should consider selecting a different server to avoid the headache; this is their one and only designated space." It's not a rule; it's a suggestion put there to encourage awareness and maturity.

Now, to touch on a few of your specific points...

Yep, those are my thinks.
 * You ask why people don't want to be IC while training skills. At least for me, this is basically the same as why I don't always want to sing while I draw. I like singing and sometimes have karaoke nights with my cat. I also like to draw, obviously. However, if I always sung every time I had to draw, I would probably never draw because the singing would become an obligatory chore; it would even become strenuous and tiresome after too long. The same is true of being in-character all the time.
 * It's not that I don't think I can rp and skill at the same time - I've done it before. I just usually don't want to do it.
 * You ask why people don't switch worlds when they're not RPing. For me, I would probably not roleplay 50% of the time that I do if I didn't spend most of my time already on the server. Half of the RPing I do is not planned, but rather, is a spur-of-the-moment decision that results from me happening across rp already going on or other ooc RPers who tell me they want to play.
 * That's the other reason why I don't switch worlds, and also the reason I sometimes loiter around hotspots; the community, both IC and OOC is logged into 42. I may not want to be IC, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the company of plenty of other RPers. We share a common hobby and as a result often have things to talk about. Sure, I could send PMs or use a FC/CC, but that limits me only to people on my lists who happen to be available, have something to say, and active at the moment. Usually when I'm loitering in-game, I'm actually doing something else as well, whether it's surfing the web or hand-sewing a new shirt. If I'm hanging around a bunch of fellow RPers and they bring up something I want to join in talking about, I'm way more likely to get a little conversation than if I sit in a dark corner of the game and wait for a PM.
 * I agree that it's lame when people complain about how they, "Want to rp but there isn't any." I suspect that this is often either because they just don't understand how to start rp, or because what they really mean is that they want to rp specific situations and none of them are really doable at the moment.