Youre giving players a framework, within which to roleplay, but this isnt actually encouraging your players to roleplay. It goes back to my previous analogy of giving someone the tools to do something, does that mean they will do it? Of course not. But if you give them some form of tangible encouragement for it, as well as the tools to do so, then you bet that they will go out of their way to do it. That's the difference between roleplay encouraged and roleplay allowed.
As for it making roleplay then relevant to the achiever types as well as the socializers, thats a good thing. If your mud is encouraging to roleplay then it makes sense that it would draw in groups that usually dont roleplay and give them desire to do so!
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