Java is right.

I used to play on a mud where characters never died. So you start as a new player and you had a bunch of people that all knew each other, and had characters that had been going on for years. It was tough to "break in" as you put it, since they were also snobs and elitists.

On CF, all characters cease to exist at some point, so you don't have that sort of thing going on.

Any time you talk to anybody, they should be RPing. But as Java said, in the lower levels they might be pre-occupied with getting other things done, so a lot will do the minimum required. But my current lowbie had minor but quality RP interactions with several people already.

Usually if you step up your RP people will repsond. If I get into a group with two people that are strictly business, I usually don't RP very hard. But if one or both of them are strong RPers I will follow suit.