Pretty much, trying to convince this community to roleplay with BAN heavy standards led people to just being mute and shooting xenos and hating staff. It caused us nothing but headaches and nearly put some staff members in the insane asylum
The majority of the community just want to kill things and do silly shenanigans, they don't care about RPing military bearing, chain of command, etc...
High developers literally said "RP dead"
Medbay are just over glorified chemists now, research is pretty much useless except for stims, OTs just make things that go boom. If it wasn't for shenangians, MPs at the moment would have nothing to do.
So you know what, Roleplay is Roleplay, don't grief and don't be overly stupid as far as I'm concerned. We're gonna test things with some standards based on rank/roles next week, and probably hammer something out to finally end the age old debate. What will probably happen at the end is the standards for Pvts/PFCs will be low, but Officers will have a higher expectation. Whitelists will also have high expectations, and I can't wait for the first CO to say Big Chungus in a command announcement expecting nothing will happen.
If people truly want RP mechanics and other things, the game is open source. Find someone willing to code, and sprite, and I have no doubt the maintainers will add it.