Rule 4.1

[Unseelie]

All right, Leo, Sayne, wilder, whoever. I'll have a go at your logic, then.

When you can join more than one faction...this creates roleplay in the essence of being able to "spy" on a faction in Roleplay. The reason being that this creates not only wanted bounties on the spy once they are found out, but creates accusations by the faction being spied on towards the people who sent the spy. Tensions start, someone fires one shot at the other faction and all hell breaks loose sparking a war. I don't believe in one character being able to be apart of several, but if it's another character and another type of RP, I don't see any kind of problem with it.

First of all, the majority of this community is interleaved factions, set up exactly like that, and we don't see the horrible mess your talking about. There are people in the RM, the SCRA, The Phantoms, and the QCRF...And a few of those people are our admins. Generaly, because of this, people start wars to further the RP, after planning things out, because we're friends on both sides. So, because we're all meshed together like that, we create the exact opposite of what your afraid of. We're one community. What your proposing would make us a lot of little splinter communities.

That and being apart of only one faction gets boring. The same things day in and day out, what fun is it when you have to be a lawful all the time? Sure, you can say you can make an independant pirate character, but truthfully, what fun is it being a pirate by yourself with out a faction to help you out or back you up? It's not fun. Restricting players to only one faction gets boring, and I'm sorry to say if that's the path this server will take, I will be very disappointed.

Right, that there, is an exact contradiction of what you've been talking about above. You're afraid that multiclanning will lead to horrible flame wars, but instead you suggest that you would be disappointed if we moved to prevent it. Please reexamine your stance for these holes.

Furthermore, Leo, It is broken. The rule, as you clearly stated you didn't understand, states that if you are a member of more than two system owning factions, that is, three or more of the following: SA, RM, QCRF, KNF, CR, HF, NPG, SCRA, TBH, Benitez, 66th, TAZ, Phantoms, and the Keepers (sorry if I missed your group) you deserve a sanction. Since there are no sanctions going out on this topic, the rule is defunct, and I know this, because I have not been sanctioned. Neither has Razr, or DBoy, or Caylith, etc, etc. So, this entire thread is a motion to change the rule, because it is defunct.

Was that clear enough?
Note: Defunct means broken, ergo, in need of a fix.

And Ghostrdr...I trust my members. I talk to a lot of them, every night. I generaly talk to them as members of Disco, not as members of the QCRF. And that's the key to what you people are missing. Disco is a cohesive unit. The community is Disco, not any mini faction that we RP with ingame. The whole RP structure is based on metagaming. Did it occur to you, that weapon stats are metagaming? Knowing trade routes is metagaming. Dipolmacy is metagaming. Even deciding what your character does and does not know is metagaming....or does your character know its a character?

Disco is not a group of warring factions. Its a group of real people, telling a story. And in our environment, there's no one else to fight against. Everyone here is a member of the Disco Group. If we go to war, we do it because it furthers the story. It has, in general, a predetermined ending. This is a stage, not an arena, and thats why its different from anything you will see anywhere else.
It isn't Freelancer multiplayer. Its Disco RP.

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