The Kusari Exiles

[Zelot]

Now, here's the point I made in the last thread on this topic.

Yall want to play a military, that's fine...but you're not a military anymore. The very most interesting aspect of your position is that there's going to be decay, and you're ignoring that chance. Fine, you don't want to be in debt to bretonia. Fine, you don't want to be pushed around by other players. That's simply human. But if you want to take this opportunity to be poor, to actually have a struggle in this game that gives everything to everyone, and squander that, I rather think you don't deserve the official faction slot.


That's just my opinion, of course, that the interesting bits of roleplay are the ones where you don't have a magic wand, that stories are only good when the characters are limited..but I think the fact that the rules and game mechanics lock out many choices reflect this ideal in much of the drive of the game.

Play to your weakness. Do something about it. It deserves attention, and you're ignoring it.

That is something I have always felt is better played out in-game. The plans I have for playing that out ingame are going to happen in a couple ways.

We are going to strictly limit cap use to the numbers in the storyline. When a cap ship is shot down, it will not be played for 2 months (or something along those lines) and rp will be done to bring in the supplies to fix the ship.

Ronin will be under strict orders to retreat rather than lose their ships. We will be a quick hit and run squad, you will not find us hanging around for long battles except in extreme circumstances, such as to help defend an important Ronin or Bretonian installation.

Ronin will be using transports to do trade interdiction as well as the supplies and credit they get from Bretonia, which really cant be much considering the overall position that the Bretonians are in.

I have also been thinking about rationing certain tech that might be hard to get or replace, as well as rationing ammunition, such as you can only have this many nuke mines, TCD or Countermeasures in a particular amount of time.

Point of the story is that we will be playing like we have limited supplies, like we are a ragtag group far from home, pretty much dependent on ourselves and what little help we can get from our hosts.

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