Honestly I was reflecting on events the last few weeks and I came to realize something.... well that I'm not a fan of.

It feels to me like the site's become a lot more combat-oriented and a lot less.... RP-oriented as of late.

Heck, my last night consisted of doing a major combat event for FIS, then doing a major combat event for Mammon, and also having a random shopping trip to Inkopolis interrupted by everyone else in the thread going off on a random combat event for Naho.

And I know I'm not entirely alone in feeling this way, since I was talking with Yuki (bluehairedemo) and others who were talking about starting a Discord server for more casual, "slice of life" RP. Brought it up later with Tatsuya, Yu, and Gamma and they basically said something to the effect of "people are playing powers, not characters."

Back in the old day, probably before a lot of you were even around, we actually were something of a slice of life-first site. A lot more in line with how Persona typically works. We'd hang out in Leblanc and talk about stuff like where people came from, or how the Nexus works, or we'd hang out in some other thread like Norway, or the Beach, or Hawaii, or just a random back alley win Shibuya. Then some villain would show up, or a request would pop up, and we'd take care of it. Hell, the Vanity fight was entirely framed around a WEDDING. And we got to the TV World once via Tatsu's apartment.

This isn't me vaguely trying to tell certain people to change how they RP, so no need to get aggressive. Honestly I'm unsure about a solution either. After all, if the will of the majority is to focus on combat, there's not much I can do to force people to do something else. Guess it's just an observation that I felt like bringing up and seeing if there was desire for change.