So I think I finally figuerd out what was bothering me about this thread. I think the two sides of the argument arnt on the same page to begin with. I used to debate in high school, and the first thing you did in a debate was to define your terms, and I think people are using the same words thinking they are diffrent. First to the Gcorp peps, I accualy like what you guys are doing in game, I spend a significant amount of time in Kusari space and have had a number of run in with you, most have been fun. I think your problem is that you want to be a faction that wins. The problem with that is that on this server, factions dont play to win, they play to play thier charactors. For instance, TBH fought a war with RM recently, and the roleplay for the campaign was set up so that even if the TBH won every battle ( which we didn't:(not even close ) the RP would still be that in the end they were defeted. I'm working on an FA group and the fun of playing those charactors is that they are weak, their the underdogs and the underdogs dont have the top weapons or ships, thats just how it goes and it's fun. Now we need to make another distinction, you talk about how the sigmas are overrun with pirates, well the sigmas exist between the two major pirate factions, of course there will be alot of pirates around. Now I know there are lots of independents out there who dont RP well and have weapons and ships that are way out of RP, but if you look at the other factions, they tend to be well disiplined about it. You want to be a faction, you need to hold yourself up to a higher standerd than the independent pirates you deal with. Factions in Disco should be becons of how we RP here, an example to new players of what we are looking for on this server. This is one of the problems with coming in new and trying to start a faction, factions in disco are more than just groups of people, and require much more than factions in other communities. You cant use the fact that independets are decked out to make your faction over pimped.
PS. My one note of a more concrete sense is that I think you have a problem with using Kusari military ships. The Hogosho and Farmers Alliance are allies, and both hold significant political power the Kusari Government and would likly undermind any effort to sell Kusari ships of any kind to the GMG. They would be sucsessful because the Kusari Government needs those to groups to help maintain stablity domesticly as well as in thier fight against the Britonians. This while the GMG needs the Kusari government to help secure the sigmas as well as free accses through Kusari space. Thus Kusari needs the Hogosho and FA, while GMG needs Kusari, this is the current food chain on the subjerct of ships and why you shouldnt use Kusari ships.
PPS. I hope the next post is not about my spelling or grammer.
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