And then what when no one side wants to win? I do only one type of roleplay: Single sided. I've been in roleplays with multiple factions and each one failed for me due to either bad GM'ing on their part OR the characters not agreeing with each other causing a huge collapse. I've seen only about a handful of multiple factions roleplay actually come out good personally. Melkor if you don't like this roleplay's concept you're free to criticize it all you'd like but if you're not interested in joining I'll politely ask that you please move along. You may have different experiences than me and this may very well go just as you say in the end if it does start. But I doubt it will personally go down hill like you say. Case in point my gundam roleplays each has ended due to personal life conflicting with the ability to post and they have all entirely been about one faction. Yes they've been relatively boring per say with tons of exposition but only due to the fact that I've never gotten a chance to get to the truly interesting stuff. I do roleplays like I would a collaborative book each person adds onto it.