Should a recommended ship list exist?

[Reverend Del]

Del, I've never ignored a single valid point that I have read. I leave that for faction leaders. Often I'm dealing with a bunch of spam from you faction leaders, thinly veiled insults, sometimes direct insults, and somewhere in that garbage I might miss something.


If you want honest discussion clean your own house. Stop the factionspam and these threads will get a lot more civil.
OK, what's a hoofing, what is the quantity of the RP and who decides?

And why is that better than a simple, clean yes or no list?
I'm not sure what you mean here. There is no requirement for character RP to play on the server. The rest is nebulous, and until you can quantify it how am I supposed to know that this isn't simply a way for factions to tilt PvP in their favor? Because that is what it looks like.
No, because the RP isn't good enough until the factions decide it is good enough, right? And safeguards are there that the factions are going to be fair? Quantify the amount of RP if you are going to make it a requirement, otherwise this stinks of an elitist powergrab, the embodiment of "we can walk all over the less organized or smaller groups of people who disagree with us on the server".
You can fly (almost) any ship you want even if you need the ID that actually matches it already, right?

So no one is being denied a ship by a black and white list, right? They just have to actually fly the ID that matches the ship. Why is that a bad thing?
Yes you are. You are afraid the truth will be inconvenient for you, and you are running from it as fast as you can.

Sad to watch, really.

I have not yet, nor do I intend to flame you, insult you or otherwise misrepresent you in print. I'll leave that to your signature.

Hoofing: Colloquialism, telling off, punishing

Quantity of RP: subjective according to the admins. The only factionalised quantity of RP is the 101st battleship requirement for at least 1 page, it does not define quality.

It is better than a simple yes or no, because a simple yes or no, does not account for the fact that some ship choices are by their nature nebulous. The Taiidan bomber for instance. A perfect example of this.


Given that: Only one faction has a ship that does not match the faction it is flying for, how does this tilt the balance in favour of PvP? It allows independents, in the main, to have a ship choice that is not standard. Most factions won't need to read it as they already have a recommended ships list in their status.

The factions have no say in whether a forum written RP is acceptable. None whatsoever, that is left up to the admins to decide.

I have no fear of the truth.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.