Roleplay ?

[Laowai]

I'm beginning to get a little saddened by all of this ... Roleplay used to be characterization, and not the
writing of stories to justify a choice of ship and loadout for PvP. So what happened ?
There are few compromises now, a lot less common sense, and attacks on those who's RP is a part of
Discovery's history.
We used to pride ourselves on sticking to the sometimes unwritten rules of conduct on the use of weapons
available where they shouldn't be, not using those we could almost justify with a little tinkering of reps and
affiliations. Now we seem have a race to grab the best out there, and then we have post after post trying to vindicate their mounting and use.
Post -your- excuses please ...

Hoodlum

Hey Hoodlum

I think what you're getting into here is what someones view of Role play is or does. Sure Role play is about characterization, in game most definitely, but also here on the forums as well.
I think though, that to say that "writing stories" in order to obtain something is some kind of problem is ignoring the fact though that doing exactly that is encouraged by factions players and even admins on this server. Its half the game if you want to be accepted into the keepers, and i know it's requested if you even want to get a hint of even being considered for a terrorist ID. Factions demand it for use of capships and you can see examples of that even in todays recent posts.
You can see how this is then easily extended to justifying weapons etc? It's part of what the community does... Role play it, justify it, write a story for it - a newcomer to these forums is going to see that written everywhere.
I am not trying to justify whatever claims cross your desk, im sure there are thousands of them, just explaining what i think a lot of newcomers might consider what is the norm around here.

It's in moments like these that i'm kind of glad i lag way too much to get into PVP:)

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