Policing Authority

[Monk]

Sometimes the RP of certain player faction does not sit well or is not desired by a player. They may still be good RPers. For example, I have not joined =LSF= explicitly with my NPC LSF char because I am not in complete agreement with the way their RP shapes up. Nothing against those in the faction, I just have my own vision of what LSF should be. Therefore, being the respectful player that I am, I give authority to them when they are around. However, I am not going to stop policing Liberty when my missions in the borderworlds are finished because the RP for my character simply would not allow a pilot carrying Navy Officers just troll on through without due justice.

That being said, I see where a lot of issues with independent players happens. A lack of respect for the established authority in the region is poor RP. What to do about it? Well, try to direct people to the forums as much as you can (always in PM, especially since I think it has a greater impact when someone knows you are addressing them directly and it is against server rules to have any OOC in sys chat) and inform them that there is a greater body that dictates how things a run in a system.

With the influx of new players we have been getting it takes some work and pride of more senior members to help these people along. Personally, I was always in favor in forcing people to at least see the rules via a server password, however, I know that would never happen. Therefore it is up to us to clean things up. We have the tools; Strong RP in the face of ooRP, a sanction thread and knowledge of how things should be.

Anyway I feel like I am ranting now, so to conclude I will say, don't limit the rights of Independent Players to RP in accordance with their selected ID. The ID says they can do those things and they should.