>You said "we can only guess at what would happen". I don't
>need to guess. I know what would happen because :
>
>1) CF's rules used to be looser than they are now, as was the
>playerbases's attitude.

Those were different days with more players. And as you state players attitudes were different. You can't know what exactly would happen with today's players. And stating that you KNOW what would happen just makes you look silly.

>2) There are a million other games where your doomsday
>scenarios just don't happen.

I never said it was a doomsday scenario. I said I do not want the rule changed because I can conceive of problems that it would cause with the way I play and enjoy the game, one of which is that I feel it would be harder to find groups for people (such as myself) that do not want to form them ooc. How else should I comment on a suggested rule change except through my own perceptions of what a rule change would mean to me?

Obviously you think it would benefit you, it probably would because I would imagine you have a group of ooc friends that play. I am not arguing against that, I am just saying this rule change would make the game less fun for me. I have not heard anything in the arguments for changing the rule that would make me think otherwise.

>So don't deflect onto "that's not the game I want it to be".

Umm, why not? This is a discussion about a rule change. What angle would you propose taking other then changing this rule moves the game in a direction I would not like. How is your argument that other games that allow ooc groups and so should CF any different? Are you not just arguing "that's how I want the game to be"? Seriously what the hell are you trying to say?



>So the slippery slope argument just doesn't hold water.

I didn't say this would lead to the doom of CF. You just keep bring up the fact that other games allow for more ooc grouping/communication and CF should be like them. I simply tried to point out that it is unlikely that those games are good comparisons to CF. Your only proof is that at a point over 10 years ago when the game was vastly different it didn't have problems, which is false and is why the rules were changed in the first place.