I haven't trudged through the 9 pages entirely, just read/skimmed the first two - wanted to say BRAVO! I am so impressed with this

I don't visit these forums much, only when I am really just killing time and that was a fun read!
I wanted to add, *and if it was already added let me know, sorry

* a personal opinion on something...
When you create your character and the you are asked to create a backgruond for your toon, or even later when you pull up your ID, I wanted to say that realistically speaking when you meet someone for the first time, you aren't going to know their childhood, their traumatizing experiences, etc. I come from a text-based RPG RP setting, so that when you typed in /look *insert player name*, you got a physical description: height, approximate weight, hair color, eye color, smells, sounds, facial expressions, etc.
I have tried to pull that over to this game, and in most of my RP in gaming as a whole - it just makes more sense to me to really DISCOVER another person's toon, and sucking you into the role, as oppose to reading their bio's and going, "Oh. Well what's the point I know all about you!"
I really wish MORE people did this, it irks me that the RP is not in depth enough to accomodate such trivial but WELL WORTH Rping as REALLY getting to know another toon. And I do mean well worth it! There are just some things that cannot be communicated except through interaction

Nuances, etc.
/end babble
As I said before...if this has been stated before, let me know and I'll erase the babbling part :P but again *golf clap*