Admin Notice: Faction Statuses Revoked; Warnings for Inactivity

[Arashi]

I diagree with many things here.

1) Serpentis being the most recent one with this attitude, I can name others, but I'm mostly just referring to his post:

Then all houses should have the same criteria, not all RP in the houses after all.
Now, if it's gonna be lowered it should be fair to lower the criteria for ALL factions.

What's the point of everyone being exactly the same. If you want it to be fair like you describe, then you need to make sure that EVERY house also has the EXACT same # of stations, the EXACT same # of planets, the EXACT same # of systems, all their ships have to be EXACTLY the same (you can change the models to they look different but there stats and weapons ahve to be EXACTLY the same). All ID's of the same type have to be exactly the same.

Why not do this, then you wouldn't need a dev team or a balance team.. Oh.. new faction.. sure.. let me copy paste faction A, we'll make new models for their shipline.. walla.. New faction #546, exactly the same as the other 545 factions.

Are you all so lame, and afraid some other faction/group can have somethign you can't, that'll you'll destroy any semblance of uniqueness in this GAME?

I don't know about you, but I enjoy games that have uniqueness, differences. I may get frustrated when it takes me 20 minutes to beat a level because all the enemies are FAR stronger than I am, but I still enjoy it because it was a challenge.

(and for all you skill junkies, games have difficulty levels, the diffculty levels actually alter stats. SET it to easy, and your enemies have weaker shields, guns, etc.. Set it to HARD and they have stronger shields, guns (they are OP)). Most people that are really (truely) skilled play HARD, it's ok cause you're not playing against PEOPLE. Your skill then becomes on memorizing tactics against specific enemy types. But when you play against people, who can change their tactics to counter your tactics, you're like "NO.. you can't have stronger stuff than me, cause then I'll loose even though I'm more skilled than you. Guess what, swallow your pride and PROVE you are more skilled by beating them even with the odds stacked against you.)


Back to the topic of the Aoi.

2) Aoi Iseijin is a covert faction, again this comes back to game mechanics, how can you be covert and tag'd at the same time.

Admins using the "well it's not fair to other factions..." is just BS. The entire premise of Aoi, and Wild for that matter is they are supposed to be covert. Sure they have there OVERT sides, but they are NOT supposed to be easily detectable at LONG range.

If you waited till cloaking was available.. sure.. I could see this, Almost, it still wouldn't help cause I know that several of the AOI have actually defended kusari ships before, as part of their cover. They have to appear to be the good guys...

As it is now.. you're basically making them fly around with a gigantic BILLBOARD: "We're bad guys.. run now cause it's obvious we are going to kill you as soon as we get in range cause we could never pull off that we are friends even for a few moments, oh and heaven forbid that we were actually coming to answer your distress call about he pirates there were attacking you, your loss.

***Let's tell all the REAL WORLD Governments that their spies must wear their national colors (Flag) on their arm while sneaking around, or pretending to be an assistant to someone they are spying on.***

In other words, I understand the idea behind faction activity with "tags" you're trying to make it easy for admins to manage.. but COMMON Sense should NOT be thrown out the window in the process.

ALL the admins are doing by throwing common sense away is telling the rest of the community that "fairplay" and "common sense" can be ignored cause it doesn't mean anything to the admins either.

NOTE: and don't confuse "fairplay" with my above rant about FAIR across the board.. that's not FAIR. that's EQUAL... FAIR isn't about equality, it's about things working for each group in a cooperative fashion. FAIR is like Compromise, you get some, you loose some, you make deals, you loose deals. it's all fair cause it balances out in the long run.

Done with rant, I won't reply to this post again. As I will not continue this flame war of lunacy, lack of common sense or fairplay.

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