(10-15-2019, 05:45 PM)Immortality23 Wrote: I honestly think someone just has a bit of an ego, and is just making themselves out to be bigger iRP than what they are.
Funny what happens when a faction leader becomes an OFL, and then suddenly thinks they have entitlements beyond what they are as a faction.
You're literally acting like Cardamine is the lifeblood of the game, and not just a small criminal underworld. Let's count the actual iRP users of Cardamine:
Lane Hackers, Rogues (Not all though, as per their RP), Chrysanthemums, Core (For research purposes, and this is very recent).
In reality, that doesn't leave a lot in the way of your monopoly profits. Even if all those were addicted, only really LH~ have the capital power to actually make you even a percentage of the money you claim iRP and ooRP to possess.
Also, difficulties with the birth rate, isn't strictly conception, it's the ability to hold onto the child during pregnancy. While I don't doubt that the population of Malta is large, the claims of 500 million still seem ambitious to me.
"It is not as powerful as a house, surely, but compared to zoners I can use the figure of speech "grand armada" for how many BS inRP do zoners have?"
Simple, look on our faction pages, and look at what we have as far as just our "Canis" fleet is. Should give you an indication. Given that we've kind of been fighting the nomads long enough and now have the capability through both Iridium, Azurite and general trading/business deals as well as private funding from benefactors.
In short, Cardamine isn't as much iRP profit as you would like to think it is. Now, Iridium on the other hand, which is what Velvet deals in, used pretty exclusively, even stated in the Armour Upgrade description. But hey, what do I know.
Either way, Garda, you're not as invincible as you want to make out the OCs to be. I can list all the ways in which factions are different, and will happily say my faction for example is not heavy on population or have a huge reach. The profits are reliant on buyers, which iRP, the OCs have very little.
1. Carrying the child. See artificial wombs. Or surrogate mothers that can be used for breeding purposes from the ranks of slaves. There are tons of options. Yet again, if the problem is not conception, then it simplifies the stuff even more as then the society attributes the sacred role of motherhood to women and cares about them trying to keep pregnant most of young years. The population of 480 million, btw, is not something we invent. It is something that is given on Malta's inforcard. Just do the math and you will see why I am addressing the steady growth - this is but a simple math of complex percentages.
2. Fleet. I am saying about fleet in the understanding of the devs. On our infopage we can claim however many ships, infopage is not the basis for inRP fleet as far as the NPC strength of a faction is concerned. We used approximately 18 caps during the siege of Sillosso, so on infopage we can claim to have those and even more. InRP fleets that I was referring to regard to NPC faction that determines its strength in Sirius. And, well, zoners have none. Regardless of how many you claim top be in "Canis", NPC zoner faction has none and it is what is used to determine zoners' strength, which is null and void. That is the comparison of fleet to you: 7-9 to 0.
Besides, even if you claim to have a fleet - zoners still have no economy or population to support a sizeable fleet similarly to how not all real countries can afford to have a sizeable navy - too expensive.
3. Cardamine according to existing lore is booming in Liberty and Kusari, our primary markets, not LH, LR, or the Core. That is given both in vanilla lore (rumours on Maltese bases and the very scope of OC problem) and in disco lore. Surely, we cannot rely solely on Cardamine and this is why we are concerned with diversifying economy.
Besides, I never claimed we are invincible. We are pretty aware of our position in the politics and of larger players that can smash us. We are totally aware of that. But zoners - c'mon, zoner resistance is a meme akin to zoner tears. Zoners inRP cannot do anything except for losing bases and planets to anyone of your liking. That is inherent in zoner lore - simple people who just want to "get away from all of this", not fight someone or engage in politics. This is why zoners fit well for the RP of some genius scientists (like IRG or now GRG who just did not find the place within houses with their approach), or explorers, or religious weirdos and basically any non-orthodox character who does not fit within general society. But militant? For what? What would trigger a regular person living or even scrambling in a House being relatively safe to go to the outskirts of known space to risk his or her life for no apparent reason? A lot of the population might not even know anything about nomads, and even if they do - most would prefer staying home knowing what aliens are capable of. There are professionals like the Order and the Core to deal with those. Surely, you can do the militant zoners similarly to [ZA] or those ones in Bering. And yo usurely can RP flipping the finger to some small nomad raid groups or small patrols of either faction. But you cannot stand the war, neither economically, nor militarily.
