Are you describing the trend to join the shoalin and then leave it? For this, I suggest suggest increasing the consequences of leaving. I suggest offering discreet bounties on former shaolin, ignoring former shaolin, and treating them as badly as possible for as long as possible.Whatevers of this world and get very strong before you switch sides
If you are describing what could look like an inconsistency of characters' view points and beliefs, such as a switch from Taniel follower to Lilith, it's hard to say there is not good reason for this. Just as Glorfindel changed for good reasons from very Taniel to Shaolin, other old characters change for good rp reasons. I do not see this as being "bad" in the least. Every old character has a different path, and not every player starts off thinking their character, with certain beliefs and whatnot, are evil. In other words, characters might not be inconsistently played while good to begin with. Did I make an ooc choice to switch from Taniel to Lilith? Yes, but it worked for Delmon for a number of reasons.
I really like this. I feel like we all think of the "why's" but then just grind on npcs sometimes and never get the chance to express views. When I was playing a sathos we used to go around and capture alot of characters. Although for some of the older character torture meant something, for the younger characters we just rped our views. That was always fun. Considering evil and good, Sathos and Taniel are pretty easy gods to defend views on imo, so some debate and discussion could be interesting between the two. Might want to try it out, even though it probably won't lead to anything like the other switching sides.Should that be a kill? Why not try to convince that cleric what is wrong with their view? Why not try to join the discussion and stand your ground in it ?
When there's 5-8 people on, what do you guys do? If someone comes along, I can't help but be interested ooc. Some people are just amazing at being non-social ic, but I have a hard time with this. When is the too nice line crossed?That said, I do think the 'auto trust' should go out of your character and stay with your ooc person. It's nothing your char would usually do