Re:Role or Roll playing? (Score 1)

I am a player of Simutronics's (Maker of Hero's Journey) MUD Gemstone IV. In my experience the GMs do reward you for "good role-playing". It can be for something as simple as staying in character or becoming involved in a GM run storyline (quest). These awards increase the rate at which you gain experience for a finite amount of time. They have always been fairly liberal with these role-playing awards but I've never heard of a player being penalized for being OOC other than a trip to the consultation lounge for a warning. I do however, have concerns regarding the large influx of players that have no concept of "staying in character" or have names like joekiller34. It will be interesting to see how Simutronics handles this, especially considering they've been dealing with a well-established player base that generally already knows the rules.