[@Gowi]
I've actually engaged in plenty of battle-orientated free-form role-plays that were both heavily collaborated and extremely competitive, and we maintained perfectly good sportsmanship during all of it. I don't think this is inherently a problem with battle-orientated role-play itself, but more an issue with role-players of any sort when inflated sense of superiority gets taken down a notch (or they just don't understand collaboration in battle-orientated role-play). This sort of person is precisely the type who makes me [i]not[/i] like public role-playing sites.