Story line Notice: Player Driven Event

[DarthBindo]

Sorry, but the simple fact is that IC| brought this upon themselves by refusing to curb independents hauling to the Hessians. *shrug* You gotta look from our side, we simply cannot allow people to haul to what we see as a terrorist organization (I'm speaking as a BDM| ), the Government HAS to be seen as doing SOMETHING to stop it, IC was asked to curb this but they kept side-stepping it and demanding their indies be allowed to keep hauling in Rheinland and possibly continuing the supplying to the Red Hessians.

Fine, let's solve the issue.
Let's Fr2 all the indies....oh wait.
Nope. Tried that. Can't. It's faction lore remember? And BONUS POINTS. What do you do to several hundred people all not listening to you? Not to mention that I;'m pretty sure Fr2ing indies to STOP THE BLOODY SMUGGLING isn't exactly going to fly with the admins, as it's not exactly counter to IC lore.
Well, let's try to educate them.
All several hundred (possibly into the thousand) of them.
Nope.
They don't listen.
Fine then, last resort, FR5 the idiots.....oh wait nope.
Couldn't even get a bloody FR5 on the IC|Moscow, much less some random noob.
We didn't bloody refuse to curb independents. We spend more time and energy and goodwill on trying to get a bloodyhandle on them than you can possibly imagine.
There were days where i would log in and spend my entire play time messaging random IC Id's flying past, trying to tell them about hte Rheinland laws.
But here's the thing:
There was, is, and never will be anything, no tool, no ability, no faction right that will allow IC|, or any other official Interspace faction, to control their indies in the manner you are suggesting.
Just look at the bloody IMG-Kruger war, if you don't believe me.
You think the IMG| was all like "YEAH, PIERAT THEM KRUGER< LETS GET KIKED OUT OF RHEINLAND 4EVUR!"
No.
Really just no.
They hated those renegades as much as the Kruger did.
The IC| indie issue has never been about what we do. It's always been about the Rheinland factions valuing their precious roleplay above basic fairplay.
I mean, we had no traction. None whatsoever.
And hell, whenever i went out and tried to recruit guys into IC|, they always told me "You guys will just stop me from using the most profitable trade routes, no thanks, i'll jsut smuggle instead".
Well, some of them were'nt quite so well-spoken, but it was the gist of every bloody conversation i had in-game for months.
And you know what? Eventually i gave up, beacuse I was getting nowhere.
Hell, i was getting even worse.
Every bloody day more and more reports of IC indies breaking the embargo poured in.
and hey, you know what the real kicker is?
Ninety five percent of em weren't even shipping illegal goods. Just things specifically forbidden to IC.
If I had managed to just once, just goddamn once gotten the list expanded to include common trade goods in rheinland........
But nope.
MUST HAVE KRIEG.

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gone four years, first day back: Zoners still getting shot in Theta :|