Unwillingly

When the RP is only tea talk. I like to RP with substance. Yet when nothing interesting ever happens outside forum posts or shit is OOCly driven, then I start to distance myself. 

Communities that have a well thought out culture and environment from a story perspective. I’ve been in some environments that made Sutica look like like Haelunor and they pretty much only run on ooc.

ICly driven communities that are comfortable in gracefully taking Ls for the sake of narrative. Seeing people either ignore ic issues oocly or attempt to dodge consequences that are already being enforced gives me the ick.

A healthy OOC environment backing the community is without trying to go for each others throats. If I wanted a high school environment I’d go to SRP.

The RP needs to be of sustenance at least some of the time. I’m okay with slice of life occasionally but often just sitting in a tavern kills a community. This extends to communities where player couples just sit in their houses all day. Go out, meet people, stir stuff up if you want to.

People who aren’t afraid to initiate rp with someone they don’t know can generate some of the best rp around.

People who ooc throw hissy fits over Ic happenings they don’t like and over share with other people mostly in the form of shit talking or yapping are the source of so many community headaches. This is why the spook community won’t rp with you. 
 

A community should offer multiple avenues for a character to go down and be rp-centric. PVP is no longer central to LOTC and is p much  only used for large scale conflicts now or for tournaments. (Left clicking in moderation is fine but when it becomes the main focus of your community you might want to join a factions server.)

erp-zones

need i say more