The Dark Star Republic wrote:Why? That seems incredibly arbitrary. Many players acknowledge RL in their roleplays: alternative history is one of the most popular jumping off points for nation creation. For example: there are many Nazi or anti-Nazi nations in NS, and so acknowledging Nazi war crimes during a debate on war crimes doesn't seem particularly unreasonable.
Perhaps I was too vague up there. This is one example of what I'm talking about. Don't you agree that statements like "In an alternative universe there is a country called the UK etc." or "I have just been informed that in that alternative universe I was talking about, overtime in Japan is limited etc." are poor form?