Anti-Community?
Separation of IC and OOC

On one hand, I get the desire to keep things separated. It helps avoid metagaming and makes for a much more immersive experience, which can be really fun.

On the other, it feels like building a sense of community among the playerbase is actively discouraged as a result when you can't share stories of things that happened with your characters or otherwise try and connect with the other players beyond what feels like superficial chatter.

To add further to the latter point, there are friends I think might enjoy the game, but I don't see a way I could invite them without it causing an inherent conflict of interest. What would I say? "Hey, I want you to play this game with me, except that we can't *actually* play together otherwise we might get banned"? Word of mouth tends to be a good way to encourage and develop a community and it feels like that's actively discouraged here.

Anyway, as mentioned I'm not really expecting anything to change, I just wanted to see what views others may have on the matter. I'm also still greatly enjoying the game and the people I have met IC, so still plan on continuing to play as my time allows, it just sometimes feels a bit lonely from the player viewpoint.

You can share stories if they're more than a certain time in the past, which I can't remember off the top of my head, perhaps someone else will remember.

You can tell your friends about the game; Conflict of Interest only comes into play if either of you know who the the other plays. You can read more about this using @rules and looking at "3.J. Conflicts of Interest - Roleplay Restrictions due to OOC Contact"

> You can tell your friends about the game; Conflict of Interest only comes into play if either of you know who the the other plays.

I do feel this kind of misses my point though. Usually the reason for telling your friends about a game is because you want to play with them, which this rule seems to actively discourage.