(08-09-2017, 05:17 AM)blksti Wrote: IMO, If two official factions want to have an RP-only war, that makes sense. But INDEPENDENT characters who are not a part of those official factions should not be included in them. Indies are your newer players that won't know about this war, have not skin in the game, and are essentially griever-bait.
Bottom line is, there's not enough people to go around, the server most of the time has less than 50 characters, and a good portion are in Connecticut. So something like this which only damages new people who might not read through every section of the forum to find out that the ID they picked is at war with another faction that appears neutral to them is highly detrimental to fixing that.
You have to ask yourself, what are the positives to something like this? People who probably aren't even playing characters in those factions most of the time are making decisions "in RP" that are affecting people completely uninvolved with it. It scares off new people and leaves a bad taste in their mouth because someone decided that "by god, their RP is to kill this person". Your character really hating a group isn't going to be much fun to RP if you're the only one on the server.
Now if the Devs decide that a war is going to be legit, then the reps and IDs should be altered. If the IFF and Reps are altered to be red, then it's fair for Indies to be brought in to the war. That's storyline development, and a part of life.
Here's the other, really huge glaring issue with it, and the issue that makes me think that this isn't innocent RP, this is griefing. He was neutral to the Zoner. That means, this "in RP war" only included the victim player. The Core pilot had a neutral rep with Zoners, and hadn't been shooting up NPC Zoners as part of the RP. You can't say that your RP is you hate Zoners and at war with them if you're not blowing up NPCs to the point that you're hostile with them. IMO, if you're not shooting up the NPCs first and foremost, because that's what you will encounter more than players, you're not really RPing.
Just my thoughts as a relatively new player that recently returned. People just need to realize, that they're not going to have any fun if nobody wants to play with them.
Just a FYI Npcs are really like background pieces not really there, So for example my Corsair likes to kill everyone who isnt a sair but I dont waste my time shooting Npcs.
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