Engines and Thrusters

[Lemon]

Its not really up to staff to decide what is inRP and what is oorp.
People can honestly RP whatever they want as long as it is within the scope of the rules.
I can RP owning Planet New Tokyo and there is nothing to actually stop me from doing so. People will call me a lolwut and its a pretty stupid things to do, but not against the rules.

Whether something is canon or not is something else entirely.
Just let people RP their engines. I will certainly keep doing so. I have a piracy line on my ID that lets me demand credits. There is no rule telling me in what situations to use that.

You can RP about the engines you mount all you like, but can't enforce RP consequences against anyone else because of theirs.

We had a situation where nomads demanded a cargo drop. Their ID doesn't have the lines in. But it does have a kill line. Admin consensus was that Nomads demanding cargo is not sanctionable as the alternative is a worse thing - death.

So if someone has a kill line - they absolutely can kill you and quote engines they can kill you anyways with generic lines and no reason.
If they have a pirate line - they absolutely can fine you and quote engines, they can pirate you anyways with generic lines and no reason.

What people can't do anymore is use FR4 or laws to punish you because of engines if they aren't using other lines.


EDIT: this is my assumption, admins can clarify, but the Nomad kinda similar precedent makes me assume this is the case.

My assumption is that half of disco has the logical apparatus and reading comprehension of a domestic hamster injected with a litre of third grade cognac, but in my case it seems the assumption is right.

The post in admin green says:

For the foreseeable future Engines and Thrusters are to be treated as purely cosmetic ie. ooRP.

This does not mean "engines exist iRP but you cannot enforce roleplay consequences," because if it meant that, it would be written like that. It literally means they don't exist. They are invisible for your character in the same way that a ship flying a Recruit ID is. There's ***** nothing there, and a character that mentions it iRP is schizophrenic or metagaming.

Now whether the decision is reasonable or not is beside the point, there is still time to change it. I think it would be good to keep engines iRP, but that's not what the post says.

This is pretty hilarious - it feels like talking to myself

Hello Lemon alt!

I mean what it means is you can't gain engagement lines due to engines and thrusters - rest won't get sanctioned. Could they reword it? Yes as that's the intent. Is it vital? No as treewyrm clarified that and St.Dennis confirmed it