Roleplay ?

[n00bl3t]

personally... I'll admit straightforward that I am an absolutely terrible pvper. I could probably remedy that with awesome ships and weapons, but I'm not likely to.

Unless I'm hunting with a pack of allied/grouped players at my side, I try to avoid pvp whenever possible. I will readily try to RP my way out of a bad situation, or simply run if that cant be done. That's one of the reasons i'm pushing this topic so much - nearly every person I run into that's trying to kill me either has some stupidly powerful capship (hey, indie battleships, that's fun) or is set up in a bomber or VHF loaded up with OORP weaponry that gets justified by the rest of the server's players because "they're considered generic items".

Worse than that, when I run into these people there's often little to no RP involved. They dont talk in system chat, they dont give me warning half the time, and they go out of their way to ruin my day. That's one of the things I hate most here... it's awesome when I run into good RP'ers - and i'll admit i'm not one of the best, but every encounter I have with a good RP'er I learn from, and I apply that to my own actions later on. I daresay my own RP talent has increased tenfold in my time here compared to other servers, just because some players are so dedicated to it here.

But there will always be those pvp whores who ignore rules or find loopholes to ruin someone's day, and the only way to get rid of them is for the admins to take action - unfortunately not everyone reports violations, and many of those that do get reported seem to be ignored because the players in question used loopholes to get around the rules.

Every encounter you have with a good PVP-er you should learn from as well, that will make your RP experience even better.:PBut yeah, PVP without RP is not fun, at all.

Are you familiar with the term "Acceptable Breaks From Reality"? Here, TVTropes has some reading you can do.

Freelancer, even without the Discovery mod, has quite a few of them for the sake of gameplay.

If you're going to complain about Supernovas being considered generic, complain also about the lack of vertically-oriented systems, the fact that when you kill your engines, you gradually slow down (hint: not a whole lot of friction in space!), the fact that ships catch fire in a zero-oxygen environment... there's a whole host of things to complain about, things that were implimented in various reasons for the sake of gameplay.

There are actually particles in space, plus a little bit of oxygen and other gases that cause friction, not to mention the space junk Earth has put into orbit. :mellow:

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.