(07-11-2021, 12:49 AM)Relation-Ship Wrote: Also - Gentle reminder to all that current state of Nu is exploration and has very weak presence of direct combat ships
This is the Liberty Battlecruiser - not meant for direct combat. Core isn't there at all in canon for some baffling reason when Zoners and Order are in.
In canon there would be only explorers and scouts meeting randomly in the vastness of Nu with very little long-reaching consequences as it is a very much an unexplored mysterious wild west system. That players escalate it to massive fleet battles, well - that's just people playing the game Neither Liberty nor Core would have any battleships there.
Simply put - Story should add core presence in equally weak capacity as Order and Liberty for starters - this seems like a total no-brainer.
(07-11-2021, 12:30 AM)DariusCiprian Wrote: Y'know this conflict is more "players using a loophole in the new rule system" than actual roleplay, right? (BAF Vs GN fights in Provence before it was made an independent system were kinda the exact same thing, just without the "laws" which Core players apply here)
As for the war part, it doesn't even make sense; Core wouldn't ever attack Houses, at least not directly.
No. Liberty used Liberty laws in battleships to threaten and attack Core from the day Nu was introduced. Core was told to not go there because OF was worried about losing pixels and were in the middle of player RP to be granted convoys to Liberty.
Liberty Players have escalated the exploratory small craft only canon to massive proportions from Day 1, now it's done from both sides, and it's been a lot of fun even though it's a massive over escalation over the couple inconsequential legal arguments a few scouts would have if this were actual canon gameplay.
EDIT: Also Holy ***** that video quality, Music+Slomo when you killed my ship near the end - just wow!
1. Nu is the border of Liberty, hence it is in the interests of Liberty to check out what is going on there. Foreign war vessels asserting their whatever there is not what Liberty wants. This is, actually, why a lot of modern conflicts arise - be it the recent clash between Russia and the UK over HMS "Defender" passing near Crimea or Chinese/Japanese tensions whenever something, even a fishing boat, passes near Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. In my book, Libertonians acted accordingly to their interests in the region. It is not just about exploration in the region when there are some military manoeuvres near their borders.
2. Core actually pursues a quite silly policy of claiming all Omicrons (bcs Chad "Imperium Omicronis") without regard to the stellapolitical situation in those Omicrons. Core's population, industrial-military complex, and economy are simply of too small scale to execute the power projection in Nu. They simply lack the resources. If they do, however, they will stretch the resources thin for such a small faction.
3. You should not forget that should Liberty treat these encounters fully inRP, they can pledge the government to crack onto IC to cut off your financing, which would be such a severe blow against the Core, that its economy would crumble for the Sairs/Order/Nomads to exploit it. Whatever the Core does, it should at all cost avoid angering the Big Brother from New York.
All these points apply, of course, if you do consider these encounters to have an RP impact. You can, ofc, say that people are having fun - and it would be correct. Still, the other side might actually treat these encounters inRP and then they would have consequences. Since this is still an RP server, this development should not be simply dismissed. Liberty has the capacity actually to annex the Core or replace the government to make it a puppet if it desires.