So hey, about the recent Zoner drama. Use it much?

[Rodnas]

In-game events > forum events, in-game reality > forum reality. The mod and the game is the focus, not self-made forum stories and forum lore. If you can't make anyone in-game do your bidding, you are not in command. If you can sit by and let 4 Core 4 bases be built against your will in your system, you are not in command even though you and your friends wrote some nice stories about how you are. That's Discovery for you, make the most of it and enjoy it.

When I say in-game stuff trumps forum stuff, I mean that if you for instance write a brilliant story about how you are the meanest Fighter Ace in all of Sirius but you suck at PVP, you can't expect people to let the "forum truth" take precedence and intentionally lose to you. If you say a system is yours, but someone else manages to build and maintain 4 Core 4 bases against your will, the system wasn't really yours at all; and you should treat it as an actual roleplay event rather than default to "your rp is wrong, check the forum, we're the bosses". So you can ignore in-game events, but that doesn't mean they haven't happened.

In all honesty this is the completly wrong line of thought - because if you extend it, SCRA bombersquads would have "inRPly ingame" killed all Corsair Capships, OC and Sairs would both have at one point or another killed off the other completly, same for the Hessians relation.
You could even drive it to the top and get some buddies to set up a base late night in front of your enemies base, get it to a decent core asap( of course supplying it as oorply as possible, maybe even from the sieged base?!) and claim you are killing of the other base, taking over the system because no one can stop your uberpower-base?? So 2-3 people should be able to dominate anotehr NPC faction+ its lore jsut because of a game mechanic abuse?

Another example: we all know there are groups of medium-good pvpers playing inrply small groups that don't deliver any real weight to the lore due to their small size. So what would you say if our all time favourite merc company decides to show up in full strenght and dominates NY for 3 days, claiming it as theirs , renaming it to Mercland....because hey, server play trumps lore and everything and no one stopped them?

The fact is server gameplay can't represent lore or the "real" development as it is technically limited as well as by manpower. This is a rp server - if you siege one lousy base and look at the inrp numbers , you need more battleships the sairs and the OC have combined and not even liberty could devote that many off its frontlines to clean house.
Only on the forums you have no technical limitations so you can at least try to bring some air of sense into the events, there you are only limited by your brain and the cooperation with others to write a story for the server. Thus, forum rp >>>ingame events

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