I was just thinking about an old text-based rpg that I played online several years ago called Gemstone 3. The actual game sucked (imo) and there was no storyline to speak of...however one thing that I remember best about it was that almost everyone Rp'ed to some extent. I really wish that more people would Rp in AO cause imo it just makes it more fun and the game comes more alive. So to that I end I propose a new in-game command taken from Gemstone. The ability to *thump* lower level characters. In Gemstone once you got to lvl 20 (which took a long damn time) you gained the ability to thump characters lower level than you who weren't Rp'ing. In AO I think the level to be able to start thumping lower level chars should be around 100. When you are thumped you can't move, can't talk, can't do anything for a few minutes (think of it as a time-out for you to think about the bad, bad things you did ) I don't think everyone should Rp if they don't want to but hey guess what...they have this nifty command /tell you can talk ooc all you want on there if you want and they even have ooc channels.
NOTICE This is not a joke and I really do think it should be implented only change the name to like enforced statis or something.