The Order feedback

[Lythrilux]

Whilst the tone of Carter's post wasn't exactly stellar and the most formal, he still has a point. Whilst I can apologise for the tone of his post, I can't apologise for the point he made.

It's most immature of a player, especially that of one in an official faction, to be willing to run all the way to the system wall. Whilst it is a fair point to raise whether or not the player would be willing to take part in an interaction, the behaviour the player showed is still silly. From reading the logs the Order| players character stated that with their RP they don't shoot human characters. Why was this not elaborated inRPly? Something as simple as that could have lead to an interesting encounter, which may have not necessarily ended with shooting mind. Though in regards to that, it's completely normal if an encounter does end in shooting. The Order and The Core are hostile to each other - they are enemies. It's the role of the characters in question to show hostility to the other side, vocally or physically. To neglect this would be undermining ones own role.

However I don't think it's wise to call the interaction forced. This is a multi-player roleplay server, where players interact with other players. You could call all interactions forced or ambient/natural, equally. I'd only regard an interaction such as this as forced if it was under circumstances that an event would be made and as part of the event the two ships would have to interact, in order for the event to progress. Otherwise this is a natural encounter with natural roleplay.

Overall though, I am somewhat confused what the intentions of that Order| pilot may have been. I don't mean to be snide, but the system at the time when the Order| pilot logged on, the system had a fair Core presence in. If he didn't want to interact with Core, what was he expecting by going into Delta? OoRPly and InRPly, Delta is a system with a big Core presence in. It'd be like a Core ship flying into Mu and then complaining when met by Order pilots. If he doesn't want to be involved with the Core part of The Order roleplay, and is willing to do silly things such as run all the way to the system wall simply to avoid that roleplay, then dare I say he's flying for the wrong faction. As stated encounters don't necessarily have to end in shooting, but they will have an air of inRP hostility.

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