Notice on the Salvaging Service

[Omi]

Everyone is using blues as RP thing. Why can't he?

When people get shot, the character don't need to die or get hurt, but the ship lost parts during the fight, even when you RP the ship didn't get destroyed during a fight but only damaged. Every fight causes debris. I take them.

Blues are not always entirely iRP, so chill out there for a second. GRN doesn't piss away 5+ Valors iRP in every Magellan fight, and nor has Liberty managed to haemorrhage thousands - if not tens of thousands - of capital ships into scrap metal over the years Disco has been up. There isn't nearly as much scrap floating around as the PvP activity would sometimes entail, and if you can't dissociate between what happens from a gameplay perspective and what happens from an in-roleplay perspective then that's your problem, not mine or anyone else's.

To be honest, while I partially agree with some SRP backstories are not of a quality I would be proud of, the special-snowflake-attitude is one of the shittiest things people came up with to be toxic against people that flesh their characters out. People get totally pissed by people giving their characters personality instead of having a character that is just a member of a faction and soulless enough to simply do what the superior says. Not that the latter is a bad thing. However, I don't get why people take joy in profiling with their disgust for other people's RP stories. That's one thing.

This is kind of off-topic, but since you mentioned it first I feel like I can point fingers at this. People (including myself) snarking and sneering at all the 'special snowflake' people who float around do have a leg to stand on, although it's never one that the players behind such unique and interesting characters seem to care about or grasp . If you wanted me to sum it up as quickly as I could, it's simply that nobody really gives a shit about all these "special" characters other than the players directly involved with the things. When I was new here - and it's still a thing you can notice in new players today if you've ever played LPI - the characters that really captivated my interest and spurred me on to keep playing weren't the super duper Edison Trent copies who flew around fighting the Nomads and being a single player hero in a multiplayer world; it's the players actually playing a role that do it. There's so, so, so much room to form a whole ton of character development without breaking out of those relatively simple roles that the game world needs to still feel like it's somewhat alive. Every half-baked character straight out of teenage fanfiction flying around undermines the believability of the game world, and for some reason people always treat these characters as the hallmarks of great design, forethought, and writing when it's the actually well-written characters performing relatively simple roles that actually deserve the merit. If you want examples of what I'm talking about, look at anything @Commissar wrote when he still played here ( @Jane Hartman, @Sarah McFarlen, @Camille Gabriel ) These characters didn't need shiny SRPs or to travel all Sirius to be more fleshed out, realistic, and downright interesting than anything pretty much anyone has come up with since.

I don't need an ooRP permission to get what is caused by someone getting shot ingame. I don't need your ooRP permission to loot the things your ship drops (Nanos, Commodities, Ammunition). All I need is being fast enough.

There are other people playing here than yourself. It should be considered at least a common courtesy to seek permission when you're trying to get your hands on another faction's tech - you've already mentioned how subjective a lot of the details are, which I agree with, but when it comes to any military tech (and in particular Gallia's, considering the centuries Gallia and Sirius have had to diverge in industrial standards) the idea that military-grade ships and weaponry can just be picked up and refurbished by any passing Junker is mind-blowing - assuming you can even consider the wrecks as still being there or being there at all in an iRP sense. You can write your own personal stories however you like - I don't think anyone is contesting that - but when you start incorporating elements of lore, gameplay, or fluff that belong to other factions, it should make at least a little bit of sense to anyone decent to clear the air by asking ooRP first.

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