[Server Event] - Sunset on Gran Canaria

[Wesker]

Omega-49 arc has been player-driven, the results of this event may be taken into account as the story arc for Omega-49 unfolds and is canonized.

Kaz, you're an inspired developer but you're a terrible liar.

Now, me being truthful I think this arc is interesting, I figured a while back while being alerted to pending New London changes by @Gagadug. that Bretonia would do something of this nature in Omega-5. Since it would coat their desperation for livespace with the obvious conflict with the Corsairs, justifying an attack on Cadiz and since Gran Canaria by its infocard is entering an Ice age and would not be suitable for livespace.

Oh boy was I wrong.

Looking back at the discord logs, gaga victor and I took note of this before hand. We shelved it thinking it wouldn't amount to anything seriously stupid, perhaps just the brets wanting to add another colony.

Oh boy where we wrong.

Gagadug09/09/2018
But about 49, the devs will make us attack the system with the goal to take the planet

Skipping ahead now to november, Victor calls me on discord right as I wake up to discuss a bunch of garabge revolving around story development. Gagadug comes to me in pm stating that the Omega-49 fight will most definitely be going down. He and victor don't like the idea at all and think it's ludicrous. Naturally, I tell them to protest the move, to not comply at all. To roleplay not entering the system. The response?

Wesker.exe11/24/2018
There are two ways we can do this.
Personally I prefer my option.
Change is coming about in the dev policy, first with tau-29
I propose we just don’t do what they want at all.
Force them to retcon
Gagadug11/24/2018
Ive talked about that with them, they wont allow that
Wesker.exe11/24/2018
Force them to dictate the storyline, then
Gagadug11/24/2018
They're stonewalling even the option
Wesker.exe11/24/2018
Make them look like hypocrites
Then protests start
Gagadug11/24/2018
That wont happen, we're going to play along or they'll kill the entire house
We're not like 99% of all other factions that cant die in one update
Wesker.exe11/24/2018
Did they say that to you.
In context
Gagadug11/24/2018
no
but they did mention that the end of the war is still open(edited)
so yea
im not going to risk it

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Now, in the devs defense when I confronted Xarlok about this in the development chat he dismissed it as a rumor. When I told the devs in response that this was the reason anyone was complying from the Bretonian side (that the reason was their faction was being held at gunpoint) I got no response. So yes ladies and gents, this entire thing has been pressed by BAF 1ic and 2ic on the notion of losing their house otherwise. They were not aware, or at least Gagadug was not aware that the implication he herd was just an implication and nothing more.

Make no mistake however NONE of the leaders wanted this at all. This entire situation has been what Sombra mentioned to me before - the devs moving the NPC assets and the players representing it. Yes, this goes for SCRA| SCEC| [TBH] BAF| [RHA] and as we can see the Zoner playerbase is quite infuriated. Never mind the fact that Canaria's infocard might be tweaked to save them from the ice age ( :

I do not hate the developers as people and I do not think this is the /worst/ approach for Bretonia. This has given the Corsair playerbase a chance to recover, but don't think for a second I'll take this "player driven" shit like it's legit at all. This whole thing has boiled down many people specifically the angry Austrailian BAF 2ic who's had to try to negotiate, get flamed by everyone and then loose his temper again.


Victor Steiner12/03/2018
That's not our fucking decison. We want to Pull out ffs. I've said this how many fucking times?


There's no way in hell I can let you just lie like that rofl, the players deserve to know what's actually happening. The instances regarding the Gallic war are (not completely but mostly to my knowledge) player driven. This is nothing of that sort. Gagadug's paranoia might be to blame, maybe I should've confronted the devs earlier. But of course, everyone also thought this "myth" of gaga and BAF being extorted was a reality.

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