Indies VS. Capships.

[Akumabito]

Don't worry, in light of all this the policies are all being reworked to be a lot more friendly. Despite claims to the contrary, the intent was to help, not be total bastards.

I don't think everyone trying to eliminate indie BS's (and there is still a push to only allow guard ID's to fly BS's in the next version, right? Or did I misread that) and register cruisers is a total bastard, but I do have some concerns that policy isn't always well thought out and is a bit one sided.

1. There has to be a good definition of whoring, across all ships, so that everyone is working from the same page.

2. If a policy is implemented, it should be clear how that policy is expected to reduce whoring or improve the server, and at what cost. If someone is supporting registration for instance, they should be able to offer a clear explanation of how it will positivity and negatively make an impact across the population of the server.

3. Discussions should be able to take place without personal insults, and it should be inclusive. It's one thing to question the logic of a policy, it's another to question the intelligence of a poster.

4. The server community is large, it involves all kind of players, many of whom are not heavily involved in the forums and there is no requirement to be active on the forums. Some respect should be shown that those that are absent from here but present on the server, not well represented here, or who choose to RP by ID on the server without posting rp here, at least until there is a forum rp requirement in the rules. Furthermore, some acknowledgment should be made that the server rules only restriction on cap ships is to limit any one player to a single battleship.

Even a slave counted as 3/5th of a person for representation, non faction and server only players should be thought of as more than slaves.

5. Some acknowledgment should be made that there is room for multiple rp to coexist here. No one group should have the right to control every storyline for a certain ID, or even want to. In real life there are conflicting storylines and objectives even between people under the same flag and there is plenty of room for that on the server as well.

6. Whoring does happen, if we acknowledge that it is undesired and that we should work to reduce it then that conversation should include everyone affected by policy and not just an elite section of the community. If one group is left out or underrepresented in a policy that affects them they will feel alienated, and then there is no community here, there is simply one group trying to impose its will on another.