Can we get real...

[Binski]

"The question is, would this be more fun than what we have now and what is currently planned? Why would it? Or why not?"

To follow up with this interesting question by Thunderer, I believe it would be far more fun than what's currently planned, what is currently planned is a fixed line that the playerbase cannot change, it will happen either way and barely fits within the realm of realism or logic, which as a roleplayer I have a lot of issue with.

The reason I believe Bretonia desolving into a lawless state where it's fighting amongst itself would be far more interesting and fun to roleplay and far more fun gameplay wise, is what happens in game will matter, they would be fighting for the very future of what happens to their home obliterated by war and fighting for a change so this never happens again, or fighting for queen and country.

An alternative storyline would be Liberty REALISTICALLY responding to being told they can't bring their people home from their ship wrecks and entering Bretonia to bring those wrecks home by force, they would never put up with that, or possibly in the lieu of doing so, they start taking the scraps of bretonia for themselves, leading to a Bretonian uprising against the Libertonian Government that wanted their dues payed far before the broken house was ready to cash out.

Either way it would be far better than what was currently happening and I think the playerbase would enjoy it more, even if some think they wouldn't. At the end of the day I don't know, i'm just saying the current fixed route is nuts at best.

Heh well under my 'dream' system, a house could wind up semi lawless. If they had enough enemies, not many defenders, they could lose all of their NPC capships, and risk losing claim to most of their space beyond the trade lanes and capital planets. If we had a 'push by weight' system, houses would remain as strong as their player base. Any small faction that did become 'diminished' could be re-inflated at any time by the right player efforts. Imagine Blood Dragon battleships cropping up around Kusari, earned by the players, and siege-able. And, they could be used to claim government planets so the points would go to the Dragons, who do have a shipyard.

It would be nice if a House group could play along to any situation and decide to send a few of its warships into a border system to claim territory or to secure routes/jumpgates. If Liberty had these, they'd surely have sent ships into Hudson and Bering by now. If we had that level of assets use available to the players, and all followed the same limits, many stories would write themselves after things got kicked off. Not to mention, it creates some purpose, and channels player activity into real progress. Players will work for it! I know I would! I'd be very interested to see Liberty do something like that, or Bretonia, and see how they fair, see what it causes. Real situations mean the need for real jobs too, real scouts/guards/intelligence gathering, real supply needs, etc. Real missions!

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