Aliens killing transports without a demand is bad for gameplay

[Grumblesaur]

Lyth is right about this, and I'd even go so far as to say that Nomad players, outside of big events, are detrimental to roleplay.

The roleplay precedent the Nomad players have set in-game is a flavor of telepathy that usually consists of a handful of words, with occasional brackets and ellipses, as well as sentences describing the target character's state of mind or thoughts.

This is tantamount to powergaming. In forum-only RP circles elsewhere on the internet, expressing thoughts or dialogue from a character that is not one's own to control is often referred to as "god moding". It violates player agency and does not directly express the action or intent of the character actually being controlled -- in our case, the Nomad.

Thus, Nomads are entirely incompatible with a game wherein roleplay is primarily driven by exchanges in a written/spoken language. Nomads have no human-comprehensible linguistic capacity, and so to suggest that the telepathy that they do is roleplay is shaky ground to stand on.

I think it makes sense for Wild players to remain (if we must keep the aliens present in some capacity, though I would prefer none at all), since they give a human voice to the Nomad goals and act in a way that is understandable by other players and their characters.

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