no, i have not had a deep RP with rheinland, i gotto admit. - but i allways rather looked upon rheinland as being the era of the Weimar Republic ( between ww1 and ww2 ) with certain nationalistic tendencies, but also with strong resistances ( the various pirate groups - they originate in the middle ages sometimes and they are messed up there anyway ... but i allways thought of rheinland as NOT being nazi germany, which i usually considered a positive feature, cause it wouldn t reduce the nations to their very stereotypes )
as for the "heil, ... " stuff. i don t care where it orginates, but it associates nazis - and its usually ( in professional mmorpgs and rather anonymous internet games ) to "try" to keep such political tendencies out of the context.
just cause rheinland as a faction may or may not refer to ww2 germany, i wouldn t like to see an official faction named ( SturmStaffel with a [SS] tag ) ... or would you? - its a concern, biased from my pov. i know that the other nations are reduced to streotypes aswell, but the german stigma is more important than others in that context. - referring to liberty as the heart of liberal thoughts and capitalism of the 1930s is one thing, associating rheinland to a nation that brought the european jews to a near extinction viewing them as second class humans ( if humans at all ) is another. - its a different quality. and i would like to keep such thoughts out of a game, even if they might drag the roleplay further on.
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