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I think there should be a staff member specifically taking the role of regulating kingdoms and roleplaying. This is an idea that has been brought up before, and I'd like to bring it up again :p

Part of their job should be similar to an EM, but go beyond that.

Here are some things that should be part of such a job:
-Making sure leaders are actively ruling in EVERY way (active in game, active on forums, have development going on in debug)
-Make sure kingdom activity is going on (events being regularly hosted... and maybe supply each leader equally with some EC's or stuff of that sort to be evented off)
-Ensure a productive change-of-leadership whenever leadership is changed
-Administrate battles between kingdoms
-Make sure roleplaying is being encouraged and done by the kingdoms, with the leaders and high-ranking officials required to provide a good example by roleplaying while on tag.
-Encourage inter-kingdom activity, such as alliances, enemies, wars...
-Make sure kings are leading honorably (not using their kingdoms as non-RP PK-guilds... regulating their own kingdom, enforcing rules, etc)
-And of course, helping leaders in whatever way possible, or leading them in the right direction to acheive productive results

A big thing that bothers me is today's status of roleplaying. Long ago, people could not join kingdoms without showing knowledge of roleplaying. They were required to be IC while on tag,and use brackets for OOC talk while on tag. Now it seems to just be a matter of choice; and people are frequently joining kingdoms without knowing anything about roleplaying. With certain changes taking place, roleplaying can return once again, and help increase the activity and playercount of Graal Kingdoms.

We've tried that 2 years ago and it doesn't work. But maybe it works now.

A big part of it is the person you choose.
The person should be carefully chosen.
The person should be a very active roleplayer.
Staff can't have the best point-of-view on who the person should be, because you have to actually see the person on a regular basis. Many people will make themselves look good to you by hosting big RP events, but on a daily basis these people may simply do no RPing. And RPing should be done regularly.
You can't simply do a poll, because the majority of people may be non-RPing and simply vote in someone they like, as oppose to someone who is best for the job.
So a variety of factors, including people's opinions, should be used on deciding.
Maybe have a thorough application process for this the same way that other staff jobs are done.

Zone gets Dan: GK can definitely get the same treatment ^^

Id rather say no as GK is just lacking the critical mass of players to start anything kingdoms-ish.

I believe that neither did Zone before some updates, right?

But I think there is noone who really wants to start RP on Zone :\

Not many people want to RP anymore on Gk either. a good percentage are there to pk/usd/scam/be annoyances.

I happily RP while on tag. Espiecialy over GMs. If I'm in bomb trade however. I won't RP unless spoken to in an RP manner.

I went to GK first to hope that there was some cooler RPing then on Valikorlia...But there wasn't. so I quit

It's a kind of good idea, I think we need more players before this happens though.

Maybe if some things were fixed, the community would get more people like this:

Graal Kingdoms has too long of a way to go before it's RPing can be better than Valikarlia.
However, if you define "cooler" the same way I do, then, GK does have the potential to have "cooler RPing" than Valikarlia in the near future with some fixes.
Last I saw, Valikarlia lacked the systems we have which we can incorporate into RPing.
We have the class system, boat battles, many different types of items in the game...

There used to be more players, thus more rule-breaking. But now there aren't, and this will balance all kingdoms leader-wise. And RP-wise.

Also, maybe if there were some ACTIVE police in MOST time zones, there would be less scamming, annoyances, etc. This could also be Player Relations for Police and communicating staff to players, and vice-versa.

I disagree.

From what I know/remember, atleast.