I'm still making my town forhand, so my resistance has prevailed. :Yaoming:
Android, the whole Rp of the town involves Kiwike, not in-game. In game like you are suggestiong would be, I woas gidding out 64 sand blocks when I met my now co-mayor, etc, etc. Where as RP for Kiwike (I'm not sure how to word this and all. But for instance, The whole Equastria colliding with Kiwike givign you partyars. That did not happen in-game yet it is still RP.) is what you should be looking for.
You have to have a good RP reason for how you and your friends met, wether or not it is was in-game.
Oh, and you can't just wipe everyone's memories from 2.0. Some people hate others from their experiences in 2.0, all they have to do is come up for a reason for avoiding them in-game, or hating them. Not just, they did this in 2.0. That I can understand. But making everyone "forget" who their friends are, etc, is virtually impossible.
I have my town in the planning right now, and I know who I would accept into it, and who I would not. Not from In-game experiences, but from forum, skype, etc. I have to come up with a reason for my hate for them in-game, but did it really happen, no.
And finally, you counteracted yourself. How do you want people to come up with an RP for their character on their whitelist if it didn't happen In-game because they can't play the "Game".