Ahh the good ol' days of 4.85. I remember them well. I had a Recycler with Corsair shieldbuster turrets. Half of the other players around me had some similar outlandish tech combo. We were all so special.
However it wasn't pure bliss, there'd be people spamming me with // messages about how my combination was wrong, while they themselves flew LN ID'd Kraken Katanas. It was hard for me to understand that I couldn't when they could, and only later did I realize how it was done (i.e. write some bs story about your parents/siblings/pets leaving you stuff and getting an "ok" from a small group of other players). I stuck to puretech, but now it was my turn to spam noobs with // messages about how their tech was wrong.
Or put differently: It bloody sucked.
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On another note, the premise of this thread is both false and misleading. You STILL have to roleplay your tech-requests, I've only had one ship in 4.86 with non-faction guns, and I roleplayed to get those.
It is totally up to the factions and us as players if we want people to roleplay tech-requests or just steal it. An informer/bounty system could be established, tech-theft could be roleplayed and so on and so forth, rather than us leaning back, folding our hands and letting nostalgia take over.
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4.85 WAS better, but for totally different reasons. There were more players, people weren't as entrenched and that widened the scope of possibilites, there were some very charismatic and good roleplayers that were also able to look beyond the interests of themselves and their group. There was less nostalgia, and less of a defeatist attitude.
Flood thread, written by a blue name Arelem. I sense troll.
Naaaaaaaahhhh…. *sarcasm*
I have a way better idea, taken from my many months of experience playing on this mod…
…Why don't we make all equipment SRP? To mount guns, shields, nanobots and other luxuries, let's have an SRP system for it, with nominal post size nerfs depending on it's dimensionality.
It will encourage a healthy Rp environment.
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
(11-21-2013, 12:44 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: And then this was removed, because some ***** idiots thought that having to roleplay = favouritism or corruption or something.
Those ***** idiots kicked up a fuss with the admin team over it, and said "but we obnoxious, abrasive arseholes, who can't be ***** to roleplay with anyone, can't get the ***** we want! Look... Look at those people over there who have learned how to cooperate and are generally personable and nice to people... Those people who are roleplaying and enjoying the game's setup... They're getting what they want, through compromise. I don't wanna compromise with anyone... I don't wanna play the game like we're supposed to, by roleplaying. I just want to get what I want to have, without having to do anything for it."
And so, because this tiny minority of viciously obnoxious, knuckle-dragging, uncompromising, abrasive, social-skill-less, bell-ends was loud enough, this new system came in, and suddenly nobody had to interact with anyone any more, and the entire game was worse off for it.
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