A problem we need to address. - the indy

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Individual players. Why the hell are they treated like crap at times? Ohh I see... Just because you have a tag it means you are better?

No.

When you encounter Indy players dont wave them off with their rp. Don't treat them differently or with less respect than the official faction. There are people behind those ships that wana have fun. Don't brush them off automatically.

"oh it is just an Indy..."

No. It is a player pertaining to a faction. Treat it as such.

Oh have you been playing for longer and think you deserve more? Please. If you have played longer than you know how much of a pain in the butt that is.

How about respect them, invite them, play with them, interact, notice them.

We need to make a change here, folks. This behavior we have now especially from leaders is toxic.

Let me break it down for you, Karst.

You meet an indy in space and he looks like he is cool and not an idiot/troll and wants to have fun and RP. He even asks if you want an escort.
All good signs that this guy seems legit.

Then there are 2 options generally (OH NO HE IS GOING GENERIC AGAIN ON US) :
1: The ignore/not important for my RP route.
2: The lets RP with this guy route.

Like im talking about quality of RP.

Look Look.

How about respect them, invite them, play with them, interact, notice them.

"oh it is just an Indy..."

No. It is a player pertaining to a faction. Treat it as such.

I am just saying I have seen stuff like this in the past and even on my own indy while flying it is sometimes hard to get some good RP going... while i would be in the SAME ship but with a tag and i would be treated better as in i'd get good RP vibes.

Im not saying everyone is bad. I just want to see the average line go up. As in like... some are bad and some are good... and just raise the bar up a bit. Sorry I cant explain it more.

Another example would be like... pirates who would pirate an indy becasue they cannot do anything but the same ship with a tag pirates would think twice becasue Oh no we could get into trouble!

An easy example of this would be back in the day when flying my pirate we would think twice before pirating a zoner becasue there was that zoner alliance or something that you could get into trouble with. I am not saying anything like it was a bad thing/good thing in terms of zoners BUT I am saying that way of thinking should be kept.