Corsair - Zoner

[Jinx]

a little reminder though

every faction comes with a little bit of information - lets call them "guidelines" - they are not ornament ... but they are VITAL for the balance of powers. ( there is more balance than just weapon and ship stats - for those who don t know )

balance of power is - which faction gets along well with what other faction. - which faction does not get along well. - who is liking who and who is hating who.

now - the point of it is...

that is not random. - this is lore. - when my ID says:

- enemy : Planetform

i cannot go forth and say - planetform is my ally. - even if i am all friends with that planetform leader - and we agree that "hey, silly conflict - lets not fight - but actually work together!!"

thats not how it works.

on the other hand - there is the term ally - which means:

this is my ally - i hate to the last fibre of my body - BUT - i MUST get along with him. - he is my ally - end of the story. - i cannot go out and say - yea - ... my faction description says ally - but we will simply start a war anyway.

then there are factions that are not described - that means "neutral" or "who are they? - i don t know, i don t care - why would i - they are of no importance to me"

those factions are nither liked, nor hated - they are regarded neutrally. - hence "neutral" - no matter how you feel about them - you don t go forth and ally with them - nor do you go forth and wage war.




but where is the PLAYER action there? - how can we CHANGE things?

- easy - actually:

firstly - you do NEVER do anything UNILATERALLY - you do it MULTILATERALLY - you involve all affected partys into it. - if you want to be HOSTILE to someone - you talk to someone ooc ( out of character is the state where we RESPECT each other as players ) and state your reasons.

if the other side says "no, because..." you may continue to argue - or you stop it. - after all.... an ID offers plenty of freedom WITHIN its "guidelines". there must have been a reason why you picked your ID in the first place - and the reason cannot really have been "i dislike it - but i want to change the ID" - if the other side says "yes" - hurray - there is a storyline that opens up.

if such a storyline opens up - and has been AGREED on multilaterally - you d be surprised how such an event can find its way into permanently changing the mod. - the devs are not blind.

but if an event happens only UNILATERALLY - you d be surprised how hard it becomes to get any change going. ( or how things can sometimes backfire ... westfalen / ID-14 )


there are a few examples that found a way into the mod....

for example - the gaian / kusari friendship. - it is not vanilla ... and started out as a little roleplay for shared gear - which was talked about BEFORE it happened .... ooc among the two factions. it was talked about - it was calmly worked out - affected players were asked for their opinions - and their opinions were taken serious. - no one had to threaten someone, no one had to pretend to be a big bully, no one had to show off authority. - silently - it became more than just a little teamplay - and ended up as "lore" - something permanently left over from player roleplay.

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