{ToI} Faction Info

[Stolt.]

Most newbie faction find it a challenge to integrate into the server, mostly because they keep to themselves instead of joining other factions and learning from veterans the many rules and unspoken rules of the server. Most of these factions die out over time because the community continually berates them with criticism and because they don't know anyone else from the community, so they never understand little things like "don't gank", or don't say "lol" in system chat. Most of these newbie groups think that the ultimate point of the game is to log and find people to shoot at just like every other game. It takes them a while to learn how to RP, most usually quit before then due to excessive community pressure and criticism drawn against them. But that isn't you guys. I'm glad you're around because your faction serves as an example to this community that instead of criticising newbie groups, we need to get in touch with them and help them understand why we have unspoken rules like don't gank, don't jitter etc. etc.

The forums are an intimidating place because there's so many threads and there's so many important posts to read that some newbie groups never figure out that jittering is bad, or why fighting fair is important (because if you die you can't log that character for 2 hours), even if it doesn't make sense. I mean, in real life, it's not like the U.S. says "let's not gank the countries we invade", they absolutely gank whenever theres a fight, most countries fighting wars do, so logically it makes sense that you would gank in this roleplay-heavy server as well. Upon hearing this, most experienced people in this community berate or insult, but they rarely explain why fighting fair is important in this server (if you die, you can't log that character on for 2 hours, so if your going to kill someone, at least give them a fair fight, otherwise the gankers end up ruining the RP experience for the ganked/gankees which is more important). When I got in touch with you guys, I think the both of us had a lot of patience with each other. We both had a lot to learn about each other as individuals and as factions. This was good because I ended up learning about your faction and its specific RP and how different you intended to be from the mainstream Blood Dragons. If we hadn't met each other, I probably would have just thought your group was just another generic pvp/pirate group that was overly-aggressive with very little RP, and you probably would've thought I was just salty that I lost a fight or got my cargo robbed.

You've taken great strides to show restraint even though your enemies never did. You've become a successful example for the community to learn from about how to integrate newbie groups such as yourselves, how we need to get in touch with groups of new guys like yourselves. Most new individual players show up and enlist in a faction or two and that's where they learn to RP but newbie groups like yours don't have exposure to the experienced players who can teach you how we play and RP on this server. Several experienced players took the time out of their lives to reach out to get to know you guys and help you improve your RP and give helpful feedback rather than criticise or complain or ostracize you and I'm glad they did because you all ended up becoming a disciplined and successful member of the Kusari unlawful community.

I hope you guys keep terrorising Kusari and help bring that house alive! I also wish you good luck! My experience with you guys has been amazing and I'm glad that I had the pleasure of RP'ing with all of you!