[dark acacia]

This can be useful for retaining new players. When I tried Arantha about a week ago, someone played as a bartender and commented on my character's nakedness (though that was because character creation there dumps new characters into the world with no pants on) and it was kind of funny. Then I went off somewhere, got lost, died, and took a break and never saw anyone on again but the admin. But still.

Anyway, I figure a good rule to determine whether rp is stagnating in your world is the amount of private in-character romances going on.