[RP Kris]

"RP Enforced" has been misused for years in my opinion. Many of the games that claim themselves to be RP enforced in reality are RP encouraged. These are the things a game would need to have for me to personally consider them "RP Enforced" and certainly can be debated:

1) Robust Game Design - The game is designed to create another world. Even if aspects of the game are simililar or based on fictional or real world aspects, the game attempts to create its own seperate reality with it own cultures, governments, organizations, important/famous people, races, and so on.

2) Clearly defined Areas - Channels and areas are clearly defined as IC (In Character) or OOC (Out of Character). The IC channels and areas are the main focus of the game.

3) RP Characters - Players adopt roles with their characters. These characters have their own histories and experiences that motivate their actions. Players create characters that are consistent with the "reality" of the game world and strive to act, speak, and react in ways that are consistent with their own character concept.

4) Themed Character Names - Character names are required that compliment the RP environment. This includes restricting names to those that characters in the game world possess. Names are restricted to being real names of the game world vs. nicknames common to the internet world.

5) Staying in Character - Players stay "in character" throughout the game with their speach and actions unless they are communicating in a manner clearly identified as being OOC and is acceptable by game rules as being OOC.

6) Enforcement - Game administration and staff take corrective and/or disciplinary actions with individuals that do not stay in character or do not create characters that fit in the context of the game world.

Effectively the game has to first be made to create an RP environment or game world, it has to clearly define the line between the real world (OOC) and the game world, and it has to protect the integrity of that game environment. A game can't honestly call themselves RP Enforced if they haven't created a seperate RP environment in the first place and/or they don't take daily action to protect the RP environment they have created.