So what's up with bases and Roleplay?

[Sarawr!?]

I've personally witnessed a base attack in Zeta right now, in which the Order, the Nomads and the Liberty Navy truced with each others to take the attacker of the base out. I thought bases were meant to improve roleplay on the Server, not make it all about Skypefriends even more than it was before? I hear those kind of stories all the time, too, so I'm trying to figure, are bases really this beneficial to the server?

I don't think the above issue is about bases, I think the above issue is about indies vs factions, but I don't think it's really worth getting into here.

I can tell you for a fact no -official- Liberty Navy player would do something so idiotic.

I doubt that official Order players would do this too.



My point is that while many indies do Roleplay, and do act in a sensible and in character manner, many many many of them do not, and ALL official factions are required to meet some standard of Roleplay and rule following.

This is why Official factions are given some of the responsibilities that they are and this is why official factions are given "control" over the NPC factions that they represent.

(That's not to say that there aren't some official factions that don't deserve their official status, or that there aren't some people in official factions who shouldn't be, idiocy, rulebreaking and OOC behavior does happen on both sides of the indie v officials argument.)

But right...this thread was supposed to be about bases, but that was my two cents, as it seems to me that that's the real issue here.

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