[quote=@Nilesapa]
Perhaps a good share of other NRPs people who will go spend 6K words writing their app and making lists and stats of all their tech.  This may be why NRPs tend to start so slow and die in the crib since once everyone is done making their nations they get creative block the second the word "character development" comes up.  This issue doesn't affect some, but I've seen it happen before when people just start inexplicably vanishing the day IC starts despite making a massive app sheet the size of a novella only to do nothing with it.
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Not to mention the OOC on top of OOC establishing each other among the group before the first IC post is laid out. Though this may come into the same boat, but I've watched it happen all too often.

It's fine and all to try and orient yourselves like that. But ideally I think that should be handled organically in IC by the writer's own ways as opposed to going on for months and months about who-knows-who, what-is-what, and who has a relationship with who. It starts things off artificially and with any source of conflict neatly patted out early.