Roleplay ?

[worldstrider]

Wow.

I am almost at a lack for words on some of the perspectives here. There is an old saying, "You can be right but not bright."

Everyone has their high ground--which is fine, it's human nature. But it seems many are missing the point that since you are on the high ground it doesn't make you "bright" to launch artillery barrages on everyone "beneath you". This seems to be the norm with number of posters here--and I am talking about old hands too--not just malcontents.

Attitudes like, "We have a faction so we have a right to control others" are selfish tunnel vision--doesn't help anyone.

Why don't you just notify the admin of how you expect him to enforce his server rules?

"Unwritten rules?" Those are ones that people who think they are "right" have no problem interpreting as they want--and of course, people who "aren't right"--can't interpret them and their opinions don't matter because they don't know them and can't pull a war record out to defend themselves.

Cliquish.

The simple fact of the matter here is RP/OORP has become more important than "fun". Being right is better than being helpful.

Pretty much the philosophy of communism--"We have to tell the masses what to do and use force to do it and once we've killed or imprisoned those who refuse to comply and beaten down and subjugated the rest, we'll have a perfect society." Our little sacrifice for the "greater good."

People complain about cap and wep abuse but look at how factions and individuals who are seen as "more right" use their opinions on this forum a lot of times--same abuse.

Too many chiefs, not enough indians.

Great players here, wonderful mod and the role play has real potential. To bad its spoiled by immature personalities and prideful selfishness so often.

When I was in the navy, I saw a common occurrence on every ship I ever served on. A new guy from another ship would transfer over. He would try to do what he did on his old ship and always talk about how much better it was their. Instead of learning to fit in, he would cling to the security of old experience and as a result end up getting in trouble because he wasn't dealing with his new reality.

Same problem here but inverted. The "plank owners" [another navy term for a person who has been onboard since a ship's commissioning] are clinging to the small group experiences they have had, their old mates and then analyzing everyone through that color lens.

Those are the unwritten rules--its the colored view of new players through the lens of old ones. No new player is going to know "how you used to play" or "what it was like when it was fun".

All they are going to see is a bunch of cynical examination and exclusion--though to the people doing it, it will seem right.

I think it's a great mod and in-game--with only a few exceptions its been fine. It's the forums that have sucked the life out of it for me.

I'm out--please consider the faction proposal as standing unless Oniros calls other wise.

Nice meeting the few of you I got to know a little bit.

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