[quote=AlienBastard]
I swear when it comes to NRPs people see the limits of the RP as unfair restrictions. Multiple times I have gotten people who complained about how having only 1-2 non-human aliens is such a ridiculous restriction in a space RP that takes place across only 4 star systems that has only one alien world and said aliens can't be space faring on contact.I've gotten people who left the RP over it even when me and iso tried to work with the guy to make what he wanted fit in.I just don't get it. Why is it there is people who some how not see how absurd it is to want to have five alien species that are intelligent within four star systems independently occurring on different planets? I even had people who thought such "limitation" was contrived... Somehow. Even though many intelligent races in close proximity to earth seems far more contrived to me.
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I couldn't run that thread for two reasons:

1) Having human colonists on the vul'kruun homeworld would have had them come into possession of human technology. Space is an Ocean and Space is Air tropes activated in full. Space fighters galore. They just would have been 'aliens' with human technology, which would have meant that I couldn't have steered their society and technological growth in the direction that I desired. The rule about the aliens not being as advanced as humans would have been impossible to adhere to had human technology been adopted by my species. Basically, it wouldn't have worked out. If I'm wrong, then it's too late anyway. The slots have been filled. 

2) The intense focus on humanity didn't sit well with me. But I guess that's my fault. I read the OP, so I knew what I was getting myself into. 

The NRP section in general has been a disappointment, because the RPs in that section are as listed:

Alternate History: Mostly restricted to PoW, the (many) World in Revolution threads, a single Cold War thread, and some up-and-coming NRP that deals with Rome. There's a reason why no one has ever caught sight of me participating in this genre. And you never will. 

The one or two active fantasy RPs in there: They're either Game of Thrones knock-offs, something set in Not!Europe or a single steampunk RP that failed to retain my interest after Serp and Monkey started being Serp and Monkey and Kilo pulled a Kilo. Oh, and Gowia's thread. 

A few science fiction threads: One of them moved to the Sufficient Velocity forums and quickly turned into a thread filled with super sayians and space ninjas (I haven't posted since then), the other sci-fi thread died/is dying because of GM inactivity and the other is borderline impossible for me to shift into. All that's left is VotS II. I'll give that two weeks before I leave. 

Not saying the NRP section sucks because whether or not something sucks is entirely subjective--but I mean. Yeah. I think my personal opinion of it is very obvious.