[quote=@Flagg] One possibility, I've experimented with and enjoyed, is just to embrace the dynamic being bemoaned here. Alot of RPers seem to be very interested in world building- and frankly, the world building ideas of most RPers are more interesting (at least to me) than reading their prose. So just give the people what they want, and a framework to do it in. Consciously spinning an NRP as a collaborative worldbuilding exercise and encouraging people to worldbuild to their heart's content has at least two upsides: 1) it's (apparently for many people) flat out fun, and can frankly be more fun than reading IC posts about what space-queens and space-diplomats or not-zergs are doing as written by amateur authors 2) worldbuilding can lend itself to fiction set in-universe, and can be a fruitful source of real collaboration as opposed to the ridiculous pseudo-RTS dynamics that so many NRPs fall in to (and which I think is part of what is being complained about here). In my experience it can actually help the IC side of things. I know that the most creative and successful I've been at writing science fiction or fantasy scenes or short stories has been in the context of collaborative worldbuilding. My most successful experiments with this dynamic have been in fantasy settings- NRPs which were extremely healthy for months and only failed because I could no longer GM for RL reasons, but the principle holds true for scifi/space opera as well. Just my thoughts. If the people like worldbuilding, give them worldbuilding, and try to structure the worldbuilding so as to enhance the IC rather than compete with it. [/quote] Flagg I normally agree with you on the whole but here I honestly don't. If it's just world building that's wanted, and I understand that, I love it myself, then why even make an RP thread? It gives it an IC whether you like it or not. That IC being stagnant will make people in the roleplay think it is dying/dead so even if they're making great content there and then, the lack of IC content deters people subconsciously. People are simple animals at the end of the day. If you make an RP thread it has to be with view to actually RP. World building is a separate but connected aspect. I'll straight admit I enjoy it more than true IC RPing, but at the end of the day without a character'd story what does it mean? It's all fizzle with no bang. I don't want to read a wiki on the empire and the rebellion and then not watch star wars.