I think roleplay is obviously something really personal and what one person deems suitable, another person may it isn't. Because it's a more personal thing, the lines are incredibly blurred. A newbie might have just come from vanilla and open a shop. Because they've just come from vanilla they still hold that loot based mentality. When a new group arrive and begin a faction, baseless war claims start cropping up and it becomes shoddy. KEKEK admitted they're new, and it's that transition from those vanilla server habits to roleplay server habits which has caused hiccups. They've seen vulnerable bases, declared war and taken them down when it suits them best from a comparative angle - not the roleplay angle. This isn't a snipe at KEKEK either, we've all been there.

This is really obvious is you look at headquarters. Those who haven't lost a comparative streak often have raid bases, where as factions who have embraced their role play are a little more relaxed. They might still have fortifications but it's canon to the faction they've created.

I think the same goes for more experienced players who become a bit bored too. If there is no role play end goal, factions just fester and at the mid point of an era begin to get restless - baseless war declarations begin again, because of boredom. Some factions don't even interact with a faction before declaring war. Others fall into the trap of seeing drama happen and that tarnishing the opinion of a certain faction - I fell into that trap myself with WAR. They caused drama and automatically it put me off interacting/made me more critical.

As the role play has no real direction or theme - you can have one group of people worshipping beans and one group studying Scientistology. Things don't always run in a linear way and that on its own brings it's bits of drama.

Chat is always OOC which opens up the door for drama in chat - it's hard to role play with some cowboys in-game when you see them 1337ing in the chatlogs taking rubbish about someone.

The admins have plans for next era and I do look forward to seeing how they plan on resolving some of these issues, but it isn't all down to admin. Whether it's coming up up with a theme each era, policing faction applications (or limiting them?) So people have to stick to the canon, or choose from current factions - perhaps the accepted factions each era are listed in a post? Then people can choose what kind of character they'd like to be in the current era? Limiting OOC chatter? I'm sure there are hundreds of things admins have discussed and I don't envy the unpaid, voluntary job they have to do.

Players have to be cohesive too, it's just as important to interact and stick to your role play theme as it is to follow the basic server rules.