Admin Notice: ZOI changes for RM, BDM, BAF and BIS. (Feedback Time)

[The.Wizard]

I think there is something to what Jack is saying. Not about the RM and BAF or this spot specifically I think, but in general, part of what makes this game such a classic is the wild west kind of mentality behind the border worlds and rim worlds. We have pretty much removed that from that game at this point. Everything is some houses' space. The Sigmas belong to the GMG, The Omicrons are split between the Sairs and the OC, the Omegas are split between the Sair and the Hessians and now BAF and RM. There is no wild west anymore in Disco, no place that is not under the law of this group of players or that and it can really be detrimental to the development of RP. Anyone who wants to rp something, almost anywhere in Sirius at this point has to get some player's permission to do it. There should be places that aren't under anyone's control, places where there is no law aside from the law of the gun. Such a huge part of the excitement of the SP was moving out of house space, feeling like you really were in a place where there were no laws. When you want to start a new group, a new station, and new rp of any kind, you have to go through the list of people you need to get permission from, and if you don't, oh boy, you will have an admin sponsored smack down on it. I would be less concerned if I thought that official factions were interested in helping individuals and the server as a whole to allow for everyone to create interesting rp, but everything I have seen since I returned and everything I have been told makes me think that official factions are really just in it to get bells and whistles for their own players, and to feel like big men pushing other people around. Because I can't trust official factions to be supportive of non-faction members trying to do interesting things, there should be space where the Houses, including the Sairs and OC, don't have jurisdiction, and can't enforce their laws and wills on other players. It's important to have that kind of "wilderness" of the game.

There was a time when official factions would oorp, help others to try to develop something interesting, even if it was against the in-rp interests of the faction. That time is apparently gone, so it is even more important to have "Free Space" for non-faction players to be able to develop without the harassment of the "Houses"

What he said.100%.

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