Well, we know that RP is pretty central to this site and a lot of people turns to the fighting zones to RP. This leads to conflicts between people who have an RP 'on hold' because they're doing a long fight or RP and people who also want to use the zone.
So why not have a separate section just like the fighting zones but just call it Role Playing zones. Main difference would be the people who just want to fight other players and nothing else besides minor RP could use the fighting zones. If they want to do RP or events that may include fighting a NPC proctored by a gm, they can use the RP zone.
Or they could just be like me and post in a zone regardless if it's on hold or not lol
Just a suggestion I'm throwing out there. Seeing what others think.