Potentially related to https://github.com/Ellypse/Total-RP-3/issues/47 : once a tutorial experience is implemented in TRP and there's a callout for first-time/unexperienced users on how to switch between IC and OOC, it makes sense to have the default status as OOC, as newly-created characters are rarely IC upon creation, and the flag is more often than not forgotten about rather than knowingly kept.