We do get the basic system, and we understand how it works. It was the same on our old site. I have experience with this stuff. However, in the roleplay I do, everyone developed characters. We're a tight group, and our roleplay has grown along with us. It's been running for a year straight now.
We have a platoon of characters, and we tend to make a lot of characters that we never even use in the main story. Just out of creativity or boredom. Or when we have an idea for a story that wouldn't work in the main plot. Then we go OOC, and perform the roleplay there. It'not how it's supposed to be used, but it's the system we've had a lot of fun with, since we're all rather random people. I was hoping we could continue to use this system on this website.