Factions Probated: IMG and GRN

[Jack_Henderson]

Just an update on Omi and me fixing things.
It's somewhat slow, but there is a lot of work in RL for him and also for me.
Just saying: this has not been forgotten.

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2. Feeling that GRN wants to screw over IMG gameplaywise and IMG's reaction of avoiding GRN

There used to be a widespread assumption that GRN did some things to make IMG's game less fun on purpose, and we also talked about these aspects. They were mainly rooted in Gallic Laws and their execution that led to IMG evading interaction in order to mask lawbreaking behaviour that could have had major consequences. A vicious circle was created by "law => break it in normal everyday play => possibility to be caught => avoid interaction". The results were bad for both factions.

The exact points that were causing trouble for IMG gameplay and fun were:

a) GRN's ban on IMG Cruisers in their space. This was especially 'painful' to IMG as the Taus used to be "free" and even though the IMG has the Cruiser, there is literally no single system any more in the IMG ZoI where it is legal to use it due to House laws.

=> Solution: Omi and I agreed that this part of the law is not enforced for gameplay reasons.

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b) GRN's direction that all Tau ore must be shipped into Gallia: While this makes sense irply, it is destructive to IMG's way of playing because the route to Gallia is too short to make convoying useful, to make roleplay on the flight worth it. The longer routes that connect the Tau and Omega holdings are a lot nicer for the IMG and more conducive to a positive IMG gameplay experience.

=> Solution:GRN will make a post about this, levying irp only tarifs for ore that is transported to any other locations than Gallia. Liberty is of course still illegal, but to Rheinland it would be legal - however irply more expensive because of taxation.

=> Solution until then:We agreed that IMG can fly ore to other locations. The law is not enforced as it is for gameplay reasons.

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c) IMG's lack of roleplaying the role of the inferior party in the Tau occupation. Points a) and b) bred frustration that made the motivation to roleplay the inferior role very undesirable, also because there seemed to be very little cooperative but mainly punitive roleplay. Mutual bad expectations spiraled out of control. Furthermore, the "counter GRN" roleplay escalated when I did not communicate the intention behind the Frumentarii roleplay (which is to keep IMG| intact for cooperation with GRN, but give IMG players who like the resistance angle a chance to do that, too).

=> Solutions:

> The IMG promises to roleplay the lore-wise role in the occupied Taus (with the concessions and a new conversation mentality and some new and better understanding, this is possible)
> The GRN and IMG agree to open roleplay that is cooperative (Omi will post the reconstruction rp the next few days, and we do not want to keep it just there)
> The leaders agree that if things go bad, they talk about it asap (if necessary with a neutral mediator) to avoid future downward spirals.

Jack for IMG|