My thoughts concerning factions/Indies and other such stuff.

[worldstrider]

I wanted to mention something that I haven't seen addressed in all this.

There are Battlestar Galactica rp elements included in Disco. Some Star Wars ships. I read the backstory of the Helghast and it included a fleet equipped with a planet destroyer (and note, the Helghast have their own ID as an actual part of the mod). Read some of the old rp stories or bios--some are unbelievably fantastic and close to over the top.

Discovery has obviously evolved but what we are dealing with here is legacy.

Playing BSG was fine when it was a new show, all the players were well acquainted with one another and it was a small fellowship. Now its barely tolerated borderline oorp to play the BSG universe here.

These are legacy--left over--issues. The old ships, out of place stories and technologies, et al. are all part of different moments in the server's history that flared then subsided.

So is the current clan tolerance and allowance.

Server rules are not put in place or overridden so as to satisfy the legacy of the old clans--who have come to think such deference is a perpetual right.

Just like the old ships and stories, it doesn't accomodate the new players and role play. Just as the mod has changed and evolved, its time for the legacy clans to be re-examined and codified and defined by server rules to a new standard.

If I was in a clan, I probably would be scared of this too. But change is good.

Imagine if we started from a server wipe today and a whole new blank slate. I quickly get together some mates and we form factions for each house and declare ourselves "the" government for all involved factions. People would have a cow!

The legacies don't want to lose what they have, as Praetyre said, "If you do that, its over".

I beg to disagree. No, it will start over...and if it starts over right it will be great.

I don't want existing clans to "go away" or vanish and I don't begrudge them their influence. It is just time to open up the server to everyone else here too.

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