I'm a first time poster on this stack but have been using it to help out with some online text-based RP.

A new player in our Second Life roleplay group is coming in fresh to the online world. He is a writer and has been presenting a rather unique problem.

In our community we encourage a variety of playstyles, however there is a set of rules of thumb that everyone follows when interacting online, that are learned by experience, observation and tips from your RP partners. This player, while he is great at writing text, doesn't seem to be familiar with our standards of interaction.

Worse yet, when approached, he insists he is a great roleplayer and that what he designed as his style is completely valid. He is both right and wrong about that from my point of view: sure, a new playstlye is great, but unfortunately it doesn't mix well with what everyone else here expects. He has stated that he wishes to change the structure of our established group in order to suit *his* needs. I would call him a know-it-all.

I want to help him to integrate into our community. What methods can I use that would persuade him to learn a standard playstyle before continuing to develop his own?

Background info
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This is a roleplay in the [Second Life virtual world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life), very much 'freeform' with a hint of optional dice rolling. This is a medieval based roleplay with an admin team, approved storylines, and an admin developed lore. There are lax rules in place. You have to play an approved character, and you can only play one character, and it must be balanced.

In Second Life, there is a general standard of how to interact. This player has his own notion of what roleplay is and is unwilling to adjust. He doesn't understand the intricacies of how people in Second Life generally approach roleplay... The best way I can describe it is that it would be like me sitting down at your D&D 5e table and insisting that I be allowed to use my *Magic: the Gathering* deck instead of creating a character.

What I want is advice on how to convince him to adjust to our standards. I don't feel that listing all of our standards or specific examples of his interactions would be helpful. It's simply a matter of a player who is too hard-headed to listen to everyone else. I will feel sorry for him if it comes down to ejection.

More Specific Details
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He doesn't understand how we roleplay. This prevents him from anticipating how others may react.

Today for example, he came to the center of the city, with no warning, no discussion, expecting no consequences, and generated a band of NPCs, who then rushed into the town and took over the local tavern. There are several problems with this:

1. He wasn't actually playing his approved character (a minor noble of one of the outlying areas).
2. He was godmodding the town guards, which we could get over, except…
3. He didnt seek approval from his lead, or the lead of the city he invaded.
4. And lastly, when approached, he insisted that *we* were not roleplaying correctly and that we needed to change our structure and rules to suit his unique playstyle.

As a general rule of thumb, a huge change like the above to the sim storyline is something that should be discussed beforehand with the admin team.

His particular issue seems to be that he can not think ahead and understand why attacking the tavern is a bad move to make. When I told him it would create all kinds of problems he said something to the effect of “You can't godmod my RP style, I can play however I want” and yes, he specifically used the term ‘godmod’ to refer to me suggesting things OOCly.

In the end, he hasn't done anything 'wrong' per se, however, he has not done his due diligence research into what is considered 'right'. He didn't observe at all, he hasn't taken any classes. It doesn't seem like he has asked for help from anyone, and likely hasn't done much 1 on 1 roleplay. (This was my first thought, invite him to roleplay privately. It didn't help.)

I think it's important to note that I am not an admin or anyone special in this roleplay. I was simply looking for info that might help me to in the future deal with a player like this and could not find anything on this Stack. So it might be something that can be valuable to others who are approaching a similar player.