' Wrote:What makes you think that they know about vulnerabilities of the capital ships they bought? There is no sticker on it saying so. Assumption of "everyone knowing this" is far-fetching and missing entirely. Ship looks big? Yes. Lots of turrets? Yes. Lots of armor? Yes. Pump the engines! Firepower is here! So there you have it. Until it's a bomber wing coming at attack vector they're feeling quite well about their safety. A couple of fighters might not pose a threat, one bomber most likely not pose a threat as well, a smaller capital ship most likely not either. Of course if it's someone of same ship class but hostile well that does look like an invitation to a good fight then! And then need for more firepower! Bring it on in full cerberus loadout, fairly good loadout might I add, and a very good indication of a certain quality of a pilot behind them. Makes sense.
Well the players who are on this forum that are arguing against restriction know, and as the statement was aimed at Akumabito and implying that he did not know, I responded.
' Wrote:Well, one thing that can be ascertained by this thread is that peaceful registrations are more likely to be successful than ... dare I say it, hostile ones.
Ships sold in Guard systems belong to the owning faction? That's good for the RHA changes.
Peaceful registrations that have no prerequisites or ultimatums. Such as a page of RP, register or die, etc.
Ships sold in guard systems are the only ones that factions can dream about claiming exclusive rights to. I still don't think that should be the case though.
' Wrote:There are more of them than you. Argue if you want but when it comes down to it, Might Makes Right in Freelancer.
Official factions have been made official by the community. If the Independant owners of ANY ship fail to RP properly in a faction ship, then it's alright for the faction to hunt them down.
Disco has things quite strange at the moment. You have official factions with proper ranks etc but they are not backed fully by the Admins. IE they are not concrete. If you want to disobey the LSF and still say you are one, then you can. THat is the issue. There is no point argueing about Independants or Factions when you have freedoms that directly interfere with each other.
Also, this arguement will never be settled. Some will still think factions are evillll!!!!!! and some will still think Independants are evilllll!!!!!!!!
The Outcasts are one of the favourite factions in Freelancer. When you have Outcast Battleships appearing in New York then you have a problem (Though it can be resolved by a bomber or two). You do not see BAF battleships appearing in NY though.
Bretonia has few enough people as it is, if the BAF had imposed restrictions they would've probably had a few less (Though the people who go to Bretonia are usually the more RP heavy people anyway)
If you had refused the BAF request then they would've killed you in the end. Outcasts just have to do it regularly.
Only if they fail to RP right? Not if they fail to register. Not if they fail to have written RP on the forums. Done.
' Wrote:So it's gone from registration is evil, to if you ask nicely we'll sign up? Well that solves that probem then, just need folks to re-write their registration policies.
The next person to call me a power mongering bstard is going to get hurt. All the power I have is to lead a bunch of folks around who happen to want to pretend to fly the same pixel ships as me, believe it or not if I started going on a power trip most of these folks would laugh at me and install someone else as leader. Most of us don't lead our factions by domination, but by general consensus.
So when I talk about indy cap ships from a Rogue perspective you can bet your ass that I have at least seven other folks who agree with me and don't feel the need to post because what they want to say has been said.
The fact that this discussion is still going on is laughable. You can argue against it as much as you like, but frankly it's not going away. Either deal with it in a sensible RP fashion or pick something else to fly. These rules are in RP, set by governments, deal with them in RP.
Don't just shout how you're being persecuted when frankly it ain't nothing of the sort.
It's gone to: don't set down impositions on RP. If a person RP's it's fine. If they don't, get them sanctioned. That's it.
As for me registering on the BAF forum, the thread was opened politely and I am willing to follow orders by the official BAF faction to an extent, because from what I have seen they have not shown a lust for power along with other things. Also, there was no compulsion or ultimatum to register in order to fly a capship, there was no "you need written RP on the forum", there was no register or we bomber-whore you, etc.
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