Harvester

[Athenian]

I can feel the heat rising here so I'll make my two cents real quick. And hope it will be taken as constructive criticism, and not a flame.
I know it must be annoying having people apparently attacking your faction proposal. You've put a lot into it and I personally enjoy seeing the harvesters in the game as it adds interesting variety.

I also have not seen a speck of encouragement, guidence, or acknowledgement of our changes.

Well you dropped the BH gunship so you've earned brownie points from me!

I hope there's a list of "Machine" vessels out there somewhere because I've started running into other "Harvesters" without the name. Automated mining vessels that act the idiot one minute, and then become all sophisticated on private comms once they are challenged and have to turn around. Are they all faction members? To be honest the "idiot" robot could become a little tired as it progresses. I mean even the robots on the planet in the omicrons are more eloquent. You do after all say:

Well what wrong with people having more choice and making this server bristle with ideas and colorful ships.

It doesn't exist here already? A lot of people put a lot of work into playing this game. As for imagination? How imaginatively or effectively can someone interact in RP with something that responds like a monosyllabic child?

Re the proposal: what have people got problems with?

Firstly; capships. Come on now, name any other faction that has as many cruisers? Of course RP can justify it; RP can justify anything. You seem determined not to yield. I dont think any faction with so many cap ships will get the nod. The OPG caused the same heckles to rise and they have done a superb job of balancing things out. I like seeing the Talarca cruisers - they do look very machine-like. How about just them and the alien fighters and freighters and bombers? That would make the faction very distinctive.

You haven't really answered my question about the alliance with the OPG. And why war with Bretonia? I say this because all my characters are in Bretonia, and well, to be honest, the area gets a fair kicking and a lot of this stems from the fact that the Bretonian factions restrict the use of cap ships. And I'll go out on a limb here and say that is one reason why Bretonia is a good place to play and not even remotely like NY: things are scaled-down and more believeable.

These questions are best answered by in game RP and study. But we will not be taking Bretonian vessels as I know some imagination levels would go critical and blow as they would not be able to handle it. (Rant)

You suggest a lack of imagination on other's parts. I don't think that is the case. People just want a set of rules and guidelines that allow some degree of balance to be achieved. I had a fine character who, people informed me, was stretching the bounds of credibility just a tad as far as game balance was concerned. I don't think accusing them of a lack of imagination would have solved anything, so I compromised. I didn't like it but I felt there was more enjoyment in the game for me once I understood this is a two-way street. We are playing a science fiction space travel game after all and we're here debating a race of sentient machines. If anything I think we're all a little TOO imaginative. All of us. Honestly guys. As for study? There's only so much time people can spend on the forums, what woth having to eat and sleep and everything.

I want fairness. i want the same clean slate the first player got and I deal with the rules the same way.

/signed. And that goes for everyone on the server.

I expect that you just want us really to get discouraged and cease to be so, you can have good ole Freelancer with only the stuff you're comfortable with.

Not at all. I want to see this faction get the nod. It's good to mix things up.

Good night and good luck. Hope nothing will be taken as a flame.

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Former member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
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