User blog comment:NovaTopaz/Discussion for RP Reset/@comment-27797576-20150819201344

I might as well make my opinion clear. I'm good with the RP reset. Actually, I think it's kinda needed. Now I am going to back mine up with logic.

For one, as stated by tato over a year ago, when we were discussing wether to have the nuclear winter or reset, his discription still applies in that it's like a poorly constructed building. The RP is almost in shambles, and it's mostly due to the lack of actual attacking. RP has become stagnant, to a very large degree because of the major powers and their almost number spam level fleets(looks at UAC, Sith, IN.....). Having RP reset would erase that pretty quickly.

There is also the fact that at this point, RP has become more stress than fun. More often than not, RP gives a headache to those actually wanting to play, and new members often get lost in the wake of all the sh!t that they have to consume in terms of information. There is land, politics, ships, tech....... And the list goes on. We worry more about our navies status than actually battling and having fun. Frankly, RP is no longer fun, and whatever fun we do have is quickly quenched by the large amount of arguments, flame wars, and etc. I can't even bear to compare this to even a year ago, much less last December or 2-3 years ago. When I first joined this wiki, I thought it was going to be fun(as I thought it'd be like the U.S.-Russian war, which I saw from the sidelines, or at least a part of it, when I wasn't a member). The fun quickly turned into stress, as I had to deal with everything. The only times I've had fun was with AIF, and even that was pretty short lived. I really want RP to become fun again. And the only option I see that could do it is a RP reset.

Also, often the only thing that I often look forward to is stuff NOT related to RP. Chat, NF squads, the like. This shouldn't be the case. RP is supposed to be what this wiki is for, not a chatting site for other games.

And also, RP needs to be revamped, remapped, and redesigned, BIG time. The rules are out of date, production is on a whim, and navies often do actions without consequence that'd normally kill your average country of comparison in one form or another(Looking at you, Marc). We need to add a new systems to help with the problems the administration of this wiki have to deal with(god modding, meta gaming, number spam, flame wars, the list goes on). And these reasons are also another reason this RP is no longer fun. RP is way too prone to many of the things the wiki discourages. Even one misplaced word or sentence can cause a flame war that spans pages. And even experienced users often get into trouble with this, and they shouldn't. The RP mostly uses opinion on stuff, again, it shouldn't always have to be used. We need more concrete methods, and rules that prevent certain kinds of GM and such. And I don't think we could transition these new rules and such into RP smoothly without a blank slate, aka RP reset.

And as for what proud said about the nuclear winter on chat....... That will no longer suffice. For one, RP now has a much larger percentage of it's fights in the outer reaches, beyond earth and Neo-earth. The last time we did, there was limited activity outside those regions, so doing a winter was effective. Now, though, you have to hit multiple systems at once. You have to hit pretty much the entire solar system, Neo-earth, telapis, calemare, and Grath. That's not conventional nor convienant. And we did the last nuclear winter KNOWING that it was only a temporary measure. We need a much more permanent patch to our problems. A nuclear winter is avoiding the problem, not solving it(basically beating around the bush), and that's exactly why I'm not bringing up the idea. A nuclear winter is no longer practical, unless we wanted to lock down every comment thread, blog, and page. And either way, I really don't think a break will fix it. Stress will go back up RIGHT after the winter is done, and the winter will have done basically nothing

The rules that I'd like having in RP to stabilize it, and make it much less prone to all this stuff, I think a RP reset will be the only option to add all this new stuff without RP collapsing due to the system adding.

I also suggest we brainstorm some incomplete rules, and start testing them in BSCRP or some of our other derelict roleplays before even considering adding them here.

And there is my reasoning. I tried to make this as detailed as possible to clearly show my thoughts.