Oh, here the rants go again...
I usually love WC RP'S. They're normally easy to join, fun to RP, and with the right people, leave lasting impressions on you that you cherrish forever.
But with the wrong people... >:l Kill me now.
I can easily type a paragraph for both mapped and unmapped, but I think I'll do para-bullets about things I hate in both.
Mapped
-Mapped RP's are normally WAY more strict. They won't let you do this, this, this, this, that, oh, and that. A lot of times, my fully realistic characters are kicked due to the fact that they 'don't follow the rules'. They have short term memory! Not their fault they can't remember the proper way to hunt a bird!
-"You havn't been on for an hour. KICK!" O my gawd I hate this. I joined whatever the most popular new WC RP is on a character that I wasn't totally fond of. RP'd for a bit, then went to bed. The next day, I got on, and was RPing a tribe cat, and also my loner Bellfur. I get a whisper from the leader saying "Get on Thunderbird." I said later, and he told me he kicked my character. WTF?!
-"MY MAP IS COOL!" Default items everywhere, no mask. ;~; Why?
-"We're all literate! Sample needed!" Translator, please plug that in for me. {I am not literate, but my members are. I let illiterate noobs in, knowing they suck.]. Oh, thanks translator. Ever wished you had a translator? ;~; I've had this happen so many times I can't count, mapped and mappless alike. Mainly mapped, though.
-EDIT: Also, those really annoying cats who yell at you for items, because someone in the clan doesn't have your item pack (LeMostRecent) so you have giant antlers and a bell collar on, and not feathers in your ear and a black collar. ;~;
-Also Edit: Those ones with REALLY tight rules about aging. One moon = one IRL day. So you have a gathering EVERY DAY? Jeez. A kit must stay a kit for 6 IRL days. WHAT? If you are unborn, you must stay unborn for 3 IRL DAYS. You must TRAIN FOR 6-12 MORE DAYS AFTER BECOMING AN APP. ;~; Or, the best one: After becoming a warrior, you must wait 30-40 moons to be an elder. I can understand that, but, really? THAT LONG TO BE UNBORN?! And how about apps, huh? You become a warrior at a years worth of age, so 12 moons. NOT 18. ;~: Or that you must wait a WHOLE IRL MONTH to kill your character. The most I had was a week, and that was near impossible due to blackcough flying around, prey shortages, and other stuff. It's hard not to die for a week, none the less a MONTH. People hurt my head.
Mappless
-"WE R LITRATE!" No, you aren't. Make up your mind, or learn what we FeralHeartians call 'literate'.
-"LOOK! A FOX! DIEEEEEEEEEE" Happened to me once. I was whispering my friend on my fox charrie, Elria, while taking a casual stroll around Fluorite. I happened to pass a clan, and they all started to maul me. I called over my friend, and we were just 'loling' it up something fierce.
-Powerplayers. Need I say more? Oh, I do? On it right now. Those little kits who run up to warriors or even foxes and are ripping them up. With their tiny claws, no way. Or the warriors who have "153 Wins, 1 Ties, 136 Kills, 0 Losses' Erm, no. Just.... No. While I don't like putting losses up, I do that all the time. And there's no way you have that many kills OR wins. Warrior cats don't even live long enough to have that many battles.
-"Hey, you join my clan, and you get to be deputy!" <-- Need I say more? ;~;
-Neons. So many neon cats join clans, it's crazy. I was in a clan, where the leader accepted a small group of neon yellow, blue, and white cats. I think they were modeled after Babar.
BOTH
-Ubber-Apps. Those apprentices who get nothing wrong, they learn every skill perfectly. They can easily take a warrior on at just half a moon of training. This also applies to those mary-sue type warriors, who are perfect in every way and never loose.
-Crappy camps. I know, some mapped RP's are great because their camp is huge and elaborate and pretty with dens for everyone. But then, there's also the camps with just a big, default cave with a few flattened bushed inside. And mapless RP's also just use rocks with no other areas for other dens. Rlly?
-Prey. Prey is apparently everywhere. Warriors go two feet from their camp, say they hunted a bit, and come back with pheasants and rabbits and (once, no joke) a deer or a dog. Even in leafbare! That prey isn't just sitting at your paws saying "kill me! I want to be eaten!" I would love if more people made 'prey' characters, to just run around, be hunted and eaten, then run away. XD Though, that's boring, so don't do it.
-And finally: Sizes. So many dang sizes I could die. Long ago, back before even general was gone, warriors cats where allowed to be lion sized. It was easier, nicer, and left more room for apps and kits to make their sized unique. NOW, there are lion sized, and app sized warriors. Like, NO. Can't we all try and start the OLD way of doing it? Where kits didn't have to be minimum size to TRY and look like kits, and warriors aren't the same size as their apprentices? Oh, but when you make characters on the OTHER side of the default size, you get yelled at, screamed at, and called a noob for 'lion size'. ;~; For those of you who are not joining this new way of life, I'm joining you now to make a stand for better cat sizes.
-Another Edit, not including the things below: Prophecies/big cat clans. I love clans who have big cats as the leader, or accept big cats because of some stupid prophecy that someone made up. ;~: Hate them.
And that's my huge rant.
Bye for now.