This is Exactly what I mean.

[Unseelie]

No you didn't. You can't walk over someone at all, since you don't have such a power here. You can only discuss and state your ideas, rejections or protests like any of us here does and post them away on the forums. And its worse to tell me, that I should take a look around for something which doesn't exist.

You might want to take a look at my guide though, if you need a good reference for what should be done before coming up with proposals. If the so called populace insist on ignoring our guidelines, then thats their problem. The things they propose will most likely be turned down or ignored due to their lack of interest against the standing factions, groups and the structure here. What we need to do is to show them the right path first off. Walking over someone or a group of people is out of question.

I find myself refraining from considering akumabito's Bretonian battleship out of line, after I am encouraged by more than a few of my peers to round up my faction and hunt it down as a defector, which I do honestly believe I could RP well, and get away with, and do without breaking any of the server rules. I am in a position where I can walk all over his rp, and be supported, even congratulated, by most of the people I talk to in this community. I refrain from doing so through the sense of decency that you seem to be encouraging me to acquire, Kress. There is nothing stopping me from doing that but myself.

Granted, here, on the forums, I can only state my peace. But in disco, I do consider myself capable of mustering the firepower necessary to ruin Akumabito's, or any other single player's, playing experience. My faction is bigger than they are, and could, quite easily, squish them. I do not, and I am against such behavior, but I do believe that my own faction, and every other faction, is bigger, and by that position, stronger, than any indie, and could ruin their day, or, in my rather hasty words, walk all over them.

Shigeo Kitamura - Hogosha, I do not feel entitled to the right to walk over people, I have stated that I could, much the same as I could kick my dog. Nothing at all is stopping me from doing so but myself, and I am upset that you believe I act in such a manner. I contemplate such an action in the same manner I would contemplate kicking my dog, or anyone else's dog, and if you have never considered doing something horrible simply because you were able to, you are a far better person than I am. Luckily for me, all I have ever done is contemplate such an action. The fact remains that I believe I could construct an RP for making someone's play time here miserable, miserable enough for them to leave their faction, or possibly the game, and not receive any sort of official sanction or statement. I did it to the RM, for months, with a vindictive and cruel bounty that I very much regret. I did it to Tic, with fleets and bombers from the QCRF, and that, again, I regret. I hope not to make the mistake again. I am ashamed to have threatened Akumabito with it, but I still maintain that that is the way disco is set up, and that it is perfectly within server rules for me to act in that manner. I hope to not act that way again.

Xoria, I am sorry I brought you into this.

Finally, I persist in believing that the statement at the head of this thread, quoted out of context and filled with erroneous logic or false support though it may be, is a realist view of the structure of the discovery rules, if not the community or the social decency that makes it what it is.

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[song]

I'm not familiar with your play as I don't think I have really encountered you in-game. My intent was not to single you out--you just provided the statement. No judgment of your character was intended.

What was important to me was to get this out in the open so that some of the people who have genuinely been harassed (and there are some) don't get booed and discredited and flamed off before their points are heard.

What I would like to see--and I believe I have--is some of the more prominent players not just staying silent or nodding their heads ("the silent accord of the crowd" as pink Floyd so aptly stated it) when the juggernaut starts grinding and presumes to speak for "all". So I am encouraged.

No matter how you personally feel or whether you have ever "chosen" to be a part of it, the problems I brought up do exist. They needed to be discussed and your comment, even unintended, reflected a very real sentiment with some here.

I'm not commenting much on this thread now but to say its not "personal" nor do I think its a simple black and white/us and them issue.

It simply is an issue that hopefully all of us will consider when we play and post now.

My only remaining issue with anyone at this point is the devolution to personal insults and harassment to "win". We can all agree to disagree but no player here gets to vote on whether or not the other players count--We all do*--and no one has a right to try to crap all over someone's day out of pure spite and call it "I'm right".

*(barring the drive by cheat/hack/pvp malcontents who always blow through every server).

I'm just glad it got discussed openly and some people moved. That's progress.

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[stone]

Simply put, life isn't fair, and have a nice day.

I think thats the type of attitude that this post was trying to address. I see this attitude more and more and frankly it makes me sick, this is a game a GAME its meant to be fun. If you are getting so worked up over a game that you need to resort to flames and basic jackass behavior you should do every one a little favor and take a brake, if not from the game at least from the forums. Step back assess the situation assess your attitude and come back and try to conduct yourself in a civil manor

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[n00bl3t]

I think thats the type of attitude that this post was trying to address. I see this attitude more and more and frankly it makes me sick, this is a game a GAME its meant to be fun. If you are getting so worked up over a game that you need to resort to flames and basic jackass behavior you should do every one a little favor and take a brake, if not from the game at least from the forums. Step back access the situation access your attitude and come back and try to conduct yourself in a civil manor

I'm sorry, but he's a veteran of the community and you can't speak like that to him. He's earned the respect of everyone here with his graphically informative Cyborg Pirate Ninja Jesus posts. Along with his co-operative mutual respect attitude shown in the post you quoted. :nono:

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.