In Vote Natio Octavarium - NO-

[Enkidu]

The overlap is a bit of a concern we have as well, yes. In hindsight, having us run out to the Sigmas or Omegas may have been a better choice. Unfortunately I'm not terribly big on retcons, so unless that friggin uranium planet in Tau-44 (WHY IS THAT A THING) starts going critical, we've kind of anchored ourselves.

We intend to fill a somewhat different role than CR, however, and are generally less fight-happy than just about all of our neighbors. We still shoot more people than the Zoners of course, but for practical RP reasons we're taking an extremely defensive stance.

Of course, this'll work better when more people show up to actually talk to. We won't gank, promise!

I'm not going to tell you to retcon the superb RP you've been doing, but the Omegas have plenty of room, feels more like the wild west, with more opportunities to create RP and fill a new role without stepping on the feet of already existing player activity types. They're also better for the kind of political shadow-play you guys want to do, with more grey-areas and less obvious "good guys and bad guys" like the Taus have. Ultimately they seem like somewhere that would give you more RP room to grow.

In short, they seem like a great place to found a microstate and have it be a fun story rather than just fulfilling a series of sequential RP objectives. People are more likely to show up in the Omegas. The Taus fall victim to being entirely developed (and played) as an interaction site between Crayter and GRN.


You are going to get demotivated really fast in the Taus. I've run a tau faction myself and I do understand the struggle. People won't show up just to interact with you if it's in a location which is ambivalently dissatisfying for them. There's no trade in the Taus, no nothing. You make a stream into a river, but if you start with a desert, you're just going to end up with more sand.


You guys had a similar problem with people not interacting with you, which is why you left the last time, at least, according to Kaz's old post on the matter. It seems strange that you've traded one safe, no-opposition region for another safe, no-opposition region.

I would love to see you guys flourish and grow.

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