Rheinland Military [RM] Feedback Thread

[sovereign]

Couple of points-

First off, there is talk in the RM forums of both a weekly RM vs RP (Rheinland Pirates) event and the workup to skirmishes with Liberty.

Second off, the BHG BCs need to go more for the sake of the pirates than the RM, they aren't fun to fight and we always win if there's a bomber and anything else online- if there isn't, then we run and there is no fight. Passing through to Omega-15 is fine, going after pirates is not. Perhaps a restriction on capital ship activity of all sorts, in addition to the "no caps within 5k of a populated planet" rule something along the lines of "no engaging pirate fighters with non-RM caps, ooRP it isn't fair and inRP that's our job" kind of thing?

Third off, the lockdown on indies is mainly because a good seven-eighths of them are power whores or idiots. For whatever reason, this kind of scum is attracted to the green lights of Rheinland- if a person RPs as they should, I'll group up with them and put in a good word as well as encouraging them to join the faction, but most of them are completely clueless or just want to boss people around. Thus, the indie restriction, which while not optimal ensures that Rheinland doesn't become another New York. The Rheinland pirate groups help police the indie RM population too, if they act like idiots then we'll hunt them down and murderize them to get them to leave.

Its more of enforcing a standard than repressing indies- two nights ago, there was a guy in a cruiser named RMS-Admiral.somethingorother, and I told him "I don't recognize your name, are you a new promotion?"

That's a pretty open-ended question, if he says "yes" then its all well and good, I RP just being out of the loop until I get Virus to talk to the guy and figure out something to keep everyone happy.

I almost didn't believe it.

He said "No, I'm one of the 'indy' military."

:dry:

:nono:

ooRP, I already knew that. inRP, he's off his rocker. I responded "Uh, are you feeling okay? Either you're in the military or you aren't. Are you?" He tells me that "I'm not in the Rheinland Military but I'm in the military, yes."

If you, as a person in the navy somewhere, heard a commanding officer talking like that, being totally serious, and really meaning it, you would remove them from command for being totally nuts. On the forums or marked "//" its okay to talk like that, but in RP... WTF, man, I handed you a chance to help out like you wanted to, and you're effing it up and acting like an idiot.

It got worse and worse, with him giving me all kinds of bull about his independence from the RMHC, and then asked me what his orders were.

I almost cried. Someone RP'ing an Admiral, and asking a private for orders. And being totally serious.

:wacko:

:nono:

THAT is why there is a restriction on indie military. Because this isn't out of the ordinary. When we went to PMs to try and figure out a happy ending, I suggested he join the [RM] to get a better understanding of the roleplay. He asked if he could keep the cruiser, and I told him "you can't tag it [RM] until you get to Captain, but we'll give you a free fighter" and he acted like I just shot his dog or something. At one point I brought up that he should get a namechange anyway, since RPing one of the fourteen admirals in the RM is pretty big stuff (and implies a battleship as things would have it) and... dear god, he acted like I was the Evil Wicked Witch or something for suggesting he hadn't put that much thought into his investment.

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If we get good indies, they usually join up with the [RM] or defect into good pirates (Exhibit A, zapp's Wesley.Richter-[LWB]). The rest are about as good at RPing as tar is at cleaning hair. I really wish we had more good indies, but until the playing field changes and they stop acting like their "indie-ness" is what's important and focus on actually RPing as military ([IRM]Camtheman, wtf is wrong with you...) then there isn't much we can do. Why would we facilitate the garbage that comes through? Better to purge the idiocy from them than foster it for the sake of indie rights.

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