(11-16-2016, 07:59 PM)Strichev Wrote: However, the fact is that the current situation does not promote diversity in RP and PVP encounters. A weak Rheinland would be much more interesting and dynamic. Sure, this is subjective, but that's the point.
Both views on the state of the house have their foundations in in-game lore. One of Vanilla and the other after the addition of random "ore bonanza" systems. All added in an effort to create a house capable of waging Krieg on all fronts.
Vanilla version didn't point at a prosperous Rheinland. They couldn't produce superconductors, they couldn't keep their lanes safe, the only BS was falling apart and Dresden's ore field running low. The house was dependent on GMG for fuel, Liberty for trade lane parts and a market for raw materials.
A failed state seemed just as likely as an economic miracle we have today.
Then there was an illogical war with Liberty (laughable), the whole IC debacle and still, Rheinland is going strong. As I've said; hooray for Rheinland, it's a miracle.
A rather boring miracle.
Tell me more about how making a nation an InRP punching bag gives you an incentive to pvp or roleplay in it. Because Kusari is toootally active, yeah.
I'm not even going to comment on the rest. If you want to apply vanilla lore to Rheinland (which isn't even like that but whatever) then to do so all houses.
No, you're not making Rheinland a delusional land of lossers.
I'm also going to avoid commenting on most of the completely off the mark claims about Rheinland economical and industrial lore, which seem to be based off of "opinions". Rheinland, as explained by Laura, has the most capable industry in Sirius and the machinery to push for it. The only handicap that it faces now is the high percentage of jobless people due to the previous economy colapse during the Liberty war because hurr durr no trade, which isn't a thing anymore (the trade has been resumed and the relations with Bretonia and Core have been improved). The so called revolution (which has nowhere near as many resources as the lawful Rheinland has, nowhere near as much military power and nowhere near as much support as the Rheinwehr despite Wesker's missleaded statement) has oorply gained popularity, sure. That's about it. I invite everyone to read our roleplay and event threads about Operation MRGA, which we will hopefully resume soon.
Lastly and just so the most biased antigerman players amongst you can understand: The Bundestag notified several months ago several changes in the import and export taxes, essentially decreasing the purchase and sale taxes in Rheinland and compensating for them with profit taxes. This translates on 1000kg of metal being cheaper to buy and sell, but having a greater % of the net profit of the company going to the state in the form of taxes.
This is an economical measure used inRL to increase the volume of imports and exports in a growing economy and reduce unemployment. As for who are the customers of this increasing economy:
The Core (for obvious expansion reasons).
Liberty (which purchases the many war materials produced in Rheinland such as Engines or Hull segments).
Bretonia (which has had the line of supplies cut off by Gallia and needs to supply from somewhere).
And of course any other minor parties.
Rheinland has more than enough industrial power and companies to keep it going. The economy is healing and thanks to the measures taken and the diplomacy changes the unemployment (which is the current major concern) is greatly reduced, thus greatly reducing the popular unease and taking from the impact of the rebellion and groups such as LWD.
Yes, Rheinland is recovering. Yes, Rheinland is stabilizing. Yes, Rheinland still has 7 (maybe it was 8, would have to review) krieg-capable fleets. No, whatever rumours spread through Skype about Rheinland aren't true. These are mostly created by people with an uneducated understanding of both the current roleplay situation and general economy, which is nothing to be ashamed of but should be contemplated as nothing more than missinformation.
I'll let Divine correct me if anything I said wasn't correct though.
Oh god I'm becoming an actual faction leader.
Quote:Uh I'm confused now, I know SOME decisions are made for gameplay purposes, but since when was the Hessian advance or Omega-11 being contested ever done for gameplay purposes? As far as I know that was the way it was since Vanilla, RHA had a foothold in Omega-11 and Dresden for a very long time. Leipzig was abandoned by Daumann because the nearby fields were pretty much completely consumed. Now actually I think the infocard on Bautzen is saying the station is getting decommissioned.
Yes, the ore fields in Dresden are depleted and the base was being dismantled just as the MRGA events were taking place (which was another reason for RM to push in as I told you in skype at some point). And yes, Leipzig was dismantled completely except for the nuclear reactors that were too big to move away and -I believe- were sabotaged and left behind.
Quote:Rheinland wasn't defeated but it was crippled, also its been a little over a year since the war ended. Which speaking inrp wise I don't (think) is enough time to rebuild what they had. If Rheinland was as strong as it was before the war I think they'd have the power to expand into the Omegas. Given beforehand Rheinland was able to push all the way to New London when they were at war with Bretonia from what I herd (but that was before I started playing).
Refering to the above, Rheinland still has at least 7 fully functional fleets, 1 of which was moved to Dresden during the MRGA events. The Bretonia thing was a small conflict between eachother that didn't make any sense and that made both nations lose 1 base. Yes, Rheinland is currently relatively weak but is still greatly stronger in terms of military than both Bretonia and Kusari. The possibility of Rheinland expanding into the Omegas has always been shut down by admins, both during the Zoner-Core stuff and in the last 2 faction-player requests that I've made and were rejected and/or ignored along any additional changes I attempted to bring up. And to the unspoken statement: no, RHA combined hasn't got nearly the strenght to fight in the open field against a single Rheinland fleet. InRP that is. However, the Rheinwehr can't reasonably push into the Omegas due to the guerrilla scenarios in which RHA would stall the advance completely. I personally wouldn't want RM to take Omega 11 completely because that'd pretty much kill RHA ingame.
Quote:Gallia and Rheinland are at similar levels of military strength. Conditions of life in both are in slow decay.
Liberty is, of course, the strongest house.
I'm just going to flat out ignore this. You're completely ignorant of everything and anything about Discovery to a point where it's offensive given your tone.
