Rule 4.1

[Xing]

I support a much more rigid rule, that I know wont be applied on discovery. The freeworlds rules, were in my opinion, the best and absolutely the best one to enforce maximum RP, while being very limitative to those with strong RP sense, but prefer to remains out of a faction.

I say it is impossible, as the disco and fw systems are completely different, and a change would be too much a job.

On FW, it was one player, one faction, nothing else.
While extremely limitative, when you chose a faction, you wanted to go in it, you were dedicated to it, and rped only as that character with some passion I'd say. An imperial navy was an imperial navy, and I know quite a bunch that are indeed imperial navy ever since the mod first began. And they still love their place in the IN.
the advantages, other than creating dedicated member to one faction, are diverse: we dont have floating characters for instance. I know kusari has a bunch of members. But if these members were ONLY allowed KNF, KNF would be much more active!
This however, limits the "less cooler" faction to exists, such as the Xenos for instance. I don't think a lot of people would like to roleplay and fight ONLY as a Xenos.

Disadvantages are obvious too, among other a very severerly limited rp potential. there are no independents. If you want to rp as imperial navy, you start from scratch, at the bottom of the ranking, and work your way up. There is no such thing as directly starting as a senior officer - truth be told, if it is possible, there are people, who would make a poor rp telling people they are some random admiral just to fly a star destroyer. But of course, there are those who knows how to restrain themselves. We have both here at discovery.

Personally, I am not very sure of my own opinion. The ultra-restrictive FW has incredible advantage (heck, everyone had restrictive shilists imposed by admins, even for civilians who were virtually capable of going anywherem but were extremely limited to ships). There wasnt much of oorp etermination threads around at the time I was there. But I admit, we weren't as numerous as we are here. Smaller a server is, better the ambiance, lesser the noobs. On the other hand, I do love discovery's freedom of rp. But I always felt, the system was intended to a smaller server.

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