So since I've taken over as Mod Manager, I've gotten many different DMs from various community members and staff members on the state of roleplay.
Some think we've let our roleplay standards drop. However I get DMs from people arguing that they feel this is more of a Team Death Match server, and they don't want to roleplay.
Until it changes, we are a Medium Roleplay server, but at the same time, I understand there are groups of players who just want to shoot aliens until dead. But there are other players who want us to treat this as a HIGH ROLEPLAY server and have the mod team enforce it hard.
I want to find the happy balance, and I've always said I don't care if PFC IMARINE wants to *dab on aliens that he shoots and kills. But at the same time we have roleplayers who really put the effort in, and it goes un-noticed.
A certain person told me they think we should do something to encourage roleplay, and suggested we bring back positive notes. However, I feel with positive notes in the end if someone breaks a rule, they shouldn't be shown special leniency as if someone did the same violation and had no positive notes. I'd rather reward people with something they can show.
Roleplayer of the month would be something to show an achievement.
It would be open to any player that can be nominated by anyone else.
RPer of the month would be picked by one of two ways
1. Players are nominated for RPer of the month the last week of the month in a forum thread. Various staff and a manager (Me probably) will then get together and discuss the nominees, and that person will be picked.
2. A public vote where players will be picked by everyone via forum poll.
Disclaimer: All candidate will be vetted and we will check their logs for the month, so there is no favoritism or the community is trying to vote someone as a meme. If it's obvious there was favoritism and someone doesn't meet the requirements, another winner would be picked.
If someone wins, they will be rewarded with possibly the following:
Custom forum title
Custom OOC color ala Donator with a special tag: IE [R] CKEY or [RP] CKEY
A person may win only so often so everyone gets a fair shot. After a certain amount of time the tag and OOC color will go away so the person would strive to get it again.