Even though C.O.S.T. is about keeping everyone together "literate" guidelines are still provided to mimic the rules of Barton Town. So here are what the different titles seen on RP's mean, although they do differ depending on the author's perspective on the definition of the word.

There is a difference in the standards and especially the difficulty levels in literate to advanced literate role plays.

Semi-literates (a level that's not allowed in C.O.S.T.) are people who sometimes use punctuations and capitalize their sentences. Their posts are usually only one to five sentences in length.

Literate is a broad term today- however, literates, to the definition that will be used in this guild, are: People who frequently use their punctuations, capitalize, and will usually spell check their work to ensure that nothing is misspelled or that there are grammar errors. Their posts normally range from five or seven sentences to three paragraphs, all depending on the writer. Some literates will begin to use smaller size coding for their posts.

Advanced-Literates are people who rarely make spelling or grammatical errors in their posts. It's extremely rare to find an advanced literate role player who doesn't use smaller sizing codes for their posts. Most advanced literates will also use special graphics to decorate their posts (although it's not always required) and often times will use two different colors in their posts. Example being using dark red for dialogue and blue for anything that's not in dialogue.

It is important to know these differences when joining or looking for a role play. In C.O.S.T. it will be required for someone to state what level of difficulty their role play is. We have three levels here: Literate, literate to advanced literate, and advanced literate. Simply include this fact in either the title of the thread or on the top of the first post.