[Good_Old_Epsilon]

Agreed. And I don't think it's fair to go to Mesalia and slap a "Medieval RP" sticker on it.

Finally someone has realized this, it's rather silly to claim this with all of the strangely steam-punk stuff, democracy and all sorts of other advanced stuff we had in the past.

I would say it's more close to fantasy, except without the typical fantasy tropes like elves and all that other unneeded crap.

Fantasy, yes, awesome, that's what this server is really about, what it should be about. However, please don't call Elves "unneeded crap". You have your opinion, but please don't slander the topic. Some of us actually like settings with "Elves and other crap" in them.

Mesalia as I see it, is whatever the players want it to be. If the majority of the server wants to include homophobic tendencies into some of the lore, that'll probably happen. If the opposite is true, then the opposite will be true.

I personally don't mind, people should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't break any rules of our server.

However, this is as long as me and anyone else who doesn't want to play a character with homosexual orientation, don't get called Homophobes over OOC because our characters said a definite no to someone advancing on them.

Trust me, this has happened to me a few times before on other places I've been on. The guy went on for some time how he is a special snowflake with his sexual orientation, to then claim I'm a Homophobe "for not expanding my RP and keeping my mind open" when my character said no.

That's enough of a reason for me to flunk that sort of person on my small Ignore list, or even report them for Power-gaming to the admin. That behavior is bad, childish and it makes that person a hypocrite.

I'm saying yes for homosexual marriage and relationships, but don't make an OOC fuss if someone declines you because they have a different sexual orientation from you. It goes both ways, if a straight character played by a straight player gets declined because the other person has different sexual orientation, don't make it an OOC fuss, that's just awful.

Everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want with their character in terms of personality, and sexual orientation, as long as it doesn’t go against the rules and is not deemed completely ridiculous by the staff.

Tl;dr - Mesalia is what we make it. Let's stop trying to genre-fy it and generalize it.

Well, a Genre of some sort would be good, because it means new players can look at it and decide if they want to join or not. The Genre should be just more specified, with a list of things that are and are not allowed maybe?

Anyway, this is just my two cents on the subject, feel free to disagree with me, it's no biggie.