' Wrote:Now back to Bretonia. Bretland really needs some love and you are the only ones who can give it to her. All you have to do is drop the stupid pacts with IMG and BAF and you will have plenty of action at home. I have yet to understand how those pacts make sense in the first place as they are equally stupid as an Corsair/IMG/Daumann pact in Omega 7, for example.
"Stupid pacts with IMG" ? Excuse me, but may I remind you of how the Mollys sell their Gold via IMG / Hood iRP since vanilla? I think them staying friendly with IMG has good reasons - IMG is pretty much a good way to get ressources and sell what they produce (Gold). Also, the IMG is targeted by quite a lot indi Mollys...not to mention all the other people who target IMG. I don't think you have any reason to get the factions which were even in vanilla RP friendly to IMG and rely to some degree on being at least neutral to IMG hostile to them.
It would hurt Mollys iRP. Even if they have grown and got a guard system etc.
But I know what your problem is...
Anyway, about the Z-Line:
There is no doubt that this shipline is not made for the kind of combat which occurs on Disco most of the time: bigger fighter brawls. The ships are big, biggest ships around for it's classes. Except the GB and Cruiser.
The Werewolf for example is a good pirating ship though, but still, a bomber is better in that regard. And the Barghest is a very good bomber for fighting transports and caps. But the LF has no use. It's big, it's weak, it's slow... And the HF also lacks in strength. Yes, many factors and variables are important when looking at the ship's performance, but I can safely say, that there is still a big balance difference between ships of the Z-line and the average Sirius ships - just as an example. Ships in Disco rely on agility, if you won't get hit you won't die, no matter how weak your armor is. But big ships DO get hit. They should rely on armor and firepower, but can't, because they just die. I can very much understand the Mollys not using the line, but it still makes me sad, as I find the ships quite good looking ... in a weird way.
About the Mercenaries - why does every group has to have Mercs? I'm so sick of Mercs ... and indi pirates .. can't people try to stick to NPC factions and their RP?
But anyway, the WG might be there - iRP - to better the relations with allies. As everyone else does it, I can't complain about the Mollys using them, I saw worse multi-ID use to increase ZoIs and the issue has to be adressed overall, not just with the Mollys.
That Merc issue brings me to Mollys and the BAF - why don't Mollys focus on Bretonia and fight BAF?
Well, maybe it's because BAF is rarely around for long. Whenever I see BAF around it doesn't take long and some Mercenary pops up to shoot them. There isn't much left for Mollys to shoot. And even if there isn't a Merc shooting BAF, someone else will do it: Hogs, Gaians, KNF, Gallics, Corsairs, Nommies of all kind, indi pirates...you name it. Blanket bounties... *shrugs* Way to easy.
Guess that's one of your problems as well.
Anyway, can't say much about Molly ingame RP lately, haven't been around Dublin much since the mining mod was changed. And when I was there [Avengers] came to fight, so there was not much to RP.
All I saw was the Merc group outside of Bretonia (namely in the Omegas) - also wasn't much RP to be had there, as I was fighting or just running through the system with my trader hoping no pirate sees me.
So I won't comment on that due to missing knowledge.
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