Roleplay

## General Information and History

Redcon Discord Community's Roleplay (abbreviated as RP) officially started the 18th of October, 2020. The channel was created by ReyOscuro9999 at request of other members. RP has evolved and changed a lot, specially when compared with how it started out. Due to lack of members and RPers when the channel came to life, there were barely any rules associated to it. However, as more and more people joined it, these were almost compulsory to maintain a healthy atmosphere. It is also worth noting how not only RP changes, but their active participants too.

Due to how difficult RP is to manage, the Staff Team has tried to keep it fun, fresh and entertaining, whilst also maintaining it as balanced/fair as possible. One of the first roles to aid with this objective was the @RP Blacklisted ❌, created by Sif Bloodworth the 10th of September, 2021. To help with moderation, the 7th of February of 2022, Leberecht introduced the @Roleplay Minimod. Initially, members with this role could pause, or completely stop a roleplay, get others to stop using/doing something they aren’t supposed to, have total control over the situation and report anyone to the Staff Team directly with high priority. The catch with this role is that you do not have to be part of the Staff Team, thus it is (in theory) much easier to obtain.

Back in the day, there was no fixated way to obtain it (only prove your balanced RP views and activity) which lead to an overwhelming amount of Minimoderators. This essentially crashed RP overtime, with too many discrepancies on what was right/wrong, too many authorities and lack of posted rules. ReyOscuro9999 decided to pause RP the 24th of April of 2022, which was an unpopular move, but thought needed by most of the Staff Team to finally write down all rules we would need for it to function. After RP's new guidelines posted the 20th of May 2022, all @Roleplay Minimod members had the role removed to start from scratch as much as possible. Two days after, the 22nd of May 2022, ReyOscuro9999 re-opened the channel and the RP did notice an increasing improvement overtime.

Up to this date, obtaining the @Roleplay Minimod role is equivalent to passing successfully a Staff Application due to the heavy importance these helpers have. The @Head of RP Management is currently possessed by no member, due to Leberecht resigning to the position after owning it for months. As the other three Head roles, it is one of the hardest roles to attain due to being awarded by ReyOscuro9999 with no fixated method to do so.

## Roleplay Lore

*[WIP] Someone should detail the history of RP, with important events/battles. Stating the teams, who their leaders are, lands, important characters, etc. is essential. Use images to help yourself and illustrate the reader.*

### Factions

*[WIP] Add your RP Faction here with the bullet point format and linking it to the page. See this photo to view the structure you should follow (include and fill out the infobox template of RP Factions)!*

* Krux [WIP]
* Empire [WIP]
* Cult of Destruction
* A.O.
* Chaos
* Chimera Unit

## Related Roles

These are the current obtainable roles:

* **🎭 Role Player 🎭:** autorole that allows members to RP in #🎬-role-playing
* **🎭 Vanilla Role Player 🎭:** autorole that allows members to RP in #🎬-vanilla-role-playing. The main differences are that fort versus fort combat are protagonists and no custom machinery/units are allowed.
* **Roleplay Minimod:** gives members permission to overwatch RP and take actions without being part of the Staff Team. Obtainable via Applications.
* **Head of RP Management:** role that signifies you are RP's backbone when it comes to moderation. Awarded by ReyOscuro9999 only to one member.
* **RP Blacklisted ❌:** prevents members from interacting at all with RP channels. Serves as punishment, and may be temporary or permanent.

These next roles are considered *relic roles*, which means they aren't really given out and are subject to be deleted due to uselessness. Members who possess them probably do so because of bot mistakes, Staff mistakes or little importance given to remove them.

* **Custom weapons trusted:** let members surpass the one week cooldown custom machinery channels had and be able to post weapons when no one else could.
* **empire general:** indicated high Empire activity and importance in RP.
* **RP Guidelines Assistant:** allowed member to see and interact with the Staff channel where the guidelines creation was taking place.

## Date History

* 17th of August, 2020: creation of secret Empire and Krux chats by ReyOscuro9999.
* 18th of October, 2020: creation of #🎬-role-playing by ReyOscuro9999.
* 2nd of March, 2021: creation of #⚙🎬-role-playing-custom-machinery by ReyOscuro9999.
* 26th of March, 2021: introduction of the Taipan event by ReyOscuro9999 and Sif Bloodworth.
* 5th of September, 2021: creation of 📢-roleplay-announcements.
* 5th of September, 2021: creation of RP autoroles (Engineers, War Related, City Management and Support) by ReyOscuro9999.
* 10th of September, 2021: creation of @RP Blacklisted ❌ by Sif Bloodworth.
* 7th of October, 2021: introduction of upvote/downvote system in #⚙🎬-role-playing-custom-machinery by Leberecht.
* 31st of October, 2021: introduction of the INFECTED event by ReyOscuro9999 (I will revive this idea at some point).
* 15th of January, 2022: creation of the machinery pass system and #claim-your-pass by Sif Bloodworth.
* 19th of January, 2022: RP reset 1 month deadline starts by Leberecht.
* 1st of February, 2022: public post of XP's relation with RP power in #🎬-role-playing-level-unlocks by Leberecht.
* 1st of February, 2022: creation of @Custom weapons trusted role and removal of machinery pass system (and public weapon posting) by Leberecht.
* 7th of February, 2022: creation of @Roleplay Minimod by Leberecht.
* 8th of February, 2022: creation of #🎬-role-playing-forts.
* 25th of February, 2022: RP reset cancelled by Leberecht.
* 1st of March, 2022: introduction of Tuppers by Perma.
* 16th of April, 2022: creation of #🎬🗳-roleplay-surveys by Leberecht.
* 24th of April, 2022: total pause of RP by ReyOscuro9999.
* 13th of May, 2022: creation of #👤🎬-role-playing-custom-units.
* 20th of May, 2022: public post of guidelines by the Staff Team and assistants.
* 20th of May, 2022: creation of #🎬📫-role-playing-news by ReyOscuro9999.
* 22nd of May, 2022: removal of RP's pause by ReyOscuro9999.
* 29th of May, 2022 - 3rd of June, 2022: migration (purge) of units and vehicles in #⚙🎬-role-playing-custom-machinery to #👤🎬-role-playing-custom-units by ReyOscuro9999.

In the later months of 2022, RP started getting more heated. battles getting retconned, arguments with people screaming at each other, and a certain moderator getting overworked and frustrated to their limits.

* 3rd of December, 2022: Large-scale RP shutdown by Existingperson26 due to toxicity and arguments happening nearly every day. New thread created to discuss new guidelines which are still being worked on to this day. It is here where some have questioned the state of RP.

## Trivia

* A vanilla version of RP exists, but it's been dead for quite some time. Dr2020 claims that it's flexibility that makes RP work.
	+ While this flexibility is what makes regular RP work, it may also be the major drawback of it entirely, seeing as how people argued over allowed technology and how battles play out.