New Rheinland War Idea

[Yaoquizque]

Like really IRP Hessians have 1-2 BS , IRP it's not RHA gank squad with 20+ BS running around because IRP they need facilities to maintain a large fleet which they do not have, This event won't make sense IRP some rebels with 2 BS invading Rheinland Capital while Rheinland has let's say 3rd largest standing fleet in Sirius sector IRP

There are two Rheinlands.

The one created by the RM player faction of old, who couldn't cope with Rheinland having a single half functional battleship (the Westfallen) while being economically exploited by domestic and foreign corporations. It should be a corrupt place where the few enjoy wealth beyond imaginable in a decadently hedonistic spirit of the people who live their lives with the end of the world always in sight. Exploitation of workers, the general dissatisfaction, should fuel the popular revolutionary movements in every system. It should be a low intensity war between the dilapidated forces of RM and RFP backed by rampant private armies of the corporations operating beyond any semblance of responsibility and the revolutionaries. RAF/Red Zora/Zellen on steroids vs corruption personified.

Riots. Ambushes. Opium cardamine dens on New Berlin with artifacts pouring through. It should feel like a mix of Blade Runner-ish cyberpunk lowlife mixed with the 19th century European decadent poetic indulgence in the fine pleasures with a hint of "the fall of Western civilization" 80's cynical end of the age/world attitude.

The other Rheinland is the one created through (in my opinion) questionable player decisions that fed on the historical course of events following the Weimar republic. Goottkanzler and all that.

Rebuilding the military! RM BS bases in every system! Hooray! Now we have a Sirius super power again! Hooray! Let's go to war with another super power cause there is no RP way of having a meaningful fight with the domestic opposition! And then the Hessians had to get their own capital ships cause muh balance.

The houses need to differentiate themselves more in the substance and not just style of RP. Because playing a RM char should be totally different than playing a LN one. And I don't think that introducing 5 German words and a twisted "zhe" accent counts as an interesting diference.

Solution?

Remove or limit capital ships on both sides. Deleting player BS accounts wouldn't work. Perhaps a jump gate/hole limit that doesn't let cap ships into the core systems of Rheinland and keeps the RM capitals on the border with Liberty (or something) and the Hessian caps in deep Omegas. (so that they can't meet regularly. The characters would have to be moved from the core systems before the implementation of the cap ship blocking jumpholes/gates. How?

All chars should be moved out of the systems (it has been done before when the admins emptied NY years ago) and let people fly their ships back while cap ships stay outside.

Then we can have proper a proper Rheinland while caps also get to do stuff elsewhere.

I find your post extremely interesting and insightful regarding Rheinland and the possibilities it was offering in unique background and role-play. It is nice to read things like this, far from the postures of certain people, caring more about gaining influence/power for their faction than actually bringing something truly interesting to the community.

This background of a weakened, disillusioned, pessimistic about the future and socially unrested Rheinland is personally giving me way more incentive to try playing in Rheinland than the "We are stronk" power gaming mentality displayed by some people there.

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