I'll interject here and give a reason why non-RPers would play on a RP server: all my friends like to RP. I've given it a fair shake and it's not for me, but they really seem to love it. When we group they speak in character and I...don't really speak at all. We have a separate private channel to b.s. OOC, which is where I do most of my talking.
In addition, as it's been stated many times, the RP crowd seems to generally be a lot more polite and mature. Anytime I sense that on a server, I'm creating all my characters there regardless of how it's tagged. I blame all of you for being decent people and luring me to the server. d(^.^)
My only gripe is the RP *****. RP-preferred is not synonymous with RP-required. I know you want your own RP server and I'm all for that, but for now, we all have a right to be there. RPers also need to understand that the rules are different in a MMORPG. It's not OK to KS, train, talk down to people whose names aren't pink, etc., in this environment. Some of us have other reasons to be on the server. I won't make fun of your faux accent if you don't make fun of my awkward geek speak.
"dude WTF?!! this is a rp server idiot." --actual quote (punctuation, capitalization and all) from a RP **** I met last night