QC - Feedback

[Mr.Cardaminum]

I prefer disco lore

Now I've had these conversations for years. But if a faction can't embrace its own themes, then it risks losing the precious identity of its NPC faction affiliation. That's not subjective either, it's a bit like stripping away a person's.. well.. personality and then engineering them to behave differently. You cited numerous examples of factions to justify "development" and I'd like to address them all.

The Core showcases none of the characteristics of the bounty hunters in Freelancer. They're a relic from a different time in this community's lifespan where the trend of being "x faction but different" was quite popular, and it quite clearly still is to some degree.

The RHA in Discovery aren't the Red Hessians. This is going to sound mildly confusing, but this statement is based upon the fact that the only thing they truly share with their freelancer counterpart is the namesake.

The Coalition is not vanilla and therefore I'm not sure how I'd even begin to address the subject of their lore and current interpretations of it. They're something of an oddity given their status as a prequel faction.

People are less interested in playing each faction for what it is and have become obnoxiously adamant in seeing just how well they can enable their own needs rather than creative development. I'm not saying a faction shouldn't try to do new things either, but there must always be a balance between change and conformity when a vanilla faction is concerned.

I must nonetheless therefore conclude that at least as far as I've been able to observe, there has not till date been a legitimate Outcast faction. What you have in common with both the Core and the RHA is that you've sacrificed a genuinely interesting faction and its relevant themes in favour of some vague pursuit of statehood.

As much as I applaud your ability to do so efficiently and with exhibitions of great intellect, this is harmful to the overall environment of the universe, as it will eventually erode the fundamental differences between various factions and instead render them all generic.

The fact that there are no factions representing OC the way they were in Malta tells that a) people who play the OC as a primary faction prefer different kind of OC; b) people who prefer the old OC do not play the OC. Ofc, these conclusions are superfluous but you get the idea. If old OC were so appealing then there for sure would be a faction representing them. The biggest problem with the old OC is that they are quite static, rendering political, economic, and scientific RP unecessary, leaving us with mundane RP of sitting in front of Malta and chit-chatting and exchanging reverances with Corsairs in pews.

As I said, we started as OC corp closer to the roots. Once we were elevated in the position of power, we just started doing what was logical given our position in the world and pre-existing conditions left after NC and the Legion. We could have ofc continued without the gov and just do OC powertrading with some corruption RP, but that would be limiting and mundane.

After all, it is a matter of preferences. Someone likes vanilla lore more, someone finds Disco lore appealing. Someone likes OC as simple drug dealers, someone adds something new to it. As you mentioned RHA, it is a good example. RHA nowadays fits well in its role of stirring things up in RHeinland and threatening with a whole large scale Revolution. It is just RH from vanilla on steroids that follow their objectives and ideas and develop. Same can be said for Disco OC. We share the same goals with vanilla OC, we just have developed and expanded. If there is no way for development, then the whole point of RP to me is lost. I don't like mundane chit-chats with no purpose, hence I always avoided trading whether being ganked by a pirate or not for the RP encoutners for me were boring. A matter of taste, after all.