Story Railroading.

[Binski]

Well since we're on the topic of story railroading, take my recent experience as an example.

I build a POB at Gaia, built after Ft de Bregancon btw, after consumption was turned off for existing POB's. It's a quiet time, a good time to do it, they seem to have thought the same. Apparently my biggest mistake was giving it Hudson's name.

I figure they must have immediately gone to work organizing both player and story effort to prepare for their coming bulldozing of the POB. First, it starts with a magic 'not even requested by the Gaians' event that justifies their one sided decision to remove Gaia as a dockable planet, and as a supply point for both Reinforced Alloy, and Hull Segments. It was nice since it seems to mean that system had a future, and it seemed like it was set up for someone to realize it was there and try to do what I did.

But the sour children didn't agree, they went to work using every means available to have their way. So they succeed at their 'event', but seems someone said they'd have to remove my base first to justify it. Either way, they return and use the very base they just bio-attacked to run a non-stop almost 24/7 siege against my Core 1. And it turns out the Faction head of the Gaians is just a bestie of the devs so they don't even need to request anything, they just converse and it happens. Not only that, but they used the slimiest tactics possible when sieging the base by using its own weapons platform against it, sometimes before attacking it so it would damage it without the shield kicking in. I responded by moving it around as much as possible so they couldn't just AFK siege, and they did when they could, because I could come back after a bit, move it by surprise, and a ship would explode because it was obviously just sitting there. (and is there even a point to filing?).

And really, try telling me someone wasn't telling them what my base supply levels were at. Do you guys even play this game? Or just came to rig everything in your favor and believe a delusion that you are someone in the right or justified?

And now Gaia is not even dockable and ruined, and basically it's like I'm supposed to believe that I triggered it just be doing something period. Otherwise no one would have noticed or done anything and Gaia would still be a dockable planet. All to get big bad me like I did anything to them to warrant it. What did I do other than promote a battle system that would have prevented such things from happening in the first place. No wonder it was so opposed. The dictatorship here much prefers their system, and for obvious reasons.

If you want this place to function, the first thing that must happen is, if you want to be staff, at least devs and Admins, you should probably stop being a player. Otherwise, the story department seems to be the only group of players that really wants the story department to exist at all. We need people who can change infocards, and people who can do write ups, but I'll always say, a fair system to determine what can and can't happen in advance, should be what drives the majority of story here. If done properly, we could have organized conflicts here that would better focus activity and allow for slow, earned changes. If people were having sieges over NPC bases that would only change IFF, not be destroyed, it would not be so brutal. I think that would take the heat off POB owners in a lot of ways, plus Core 1's desperately need more to start with.

So anyways, as far as I'm concerned, for you guys to have done what you did in Edinburgh and get away with it and think its just fine and totally makes sense is completely insane to me. It's like 1984 level doublethink. To me, the Gaian's shouldn't even have destroyers anymore, and should still need to siege more than a Core 1 POB to eliminate a planet from play.

As to the OP topic of the changes to IN, I also found that surprising and wondered if all of this stuff going on is really totally cool or if there is malcontent that basically stays quiet, because we know the forum nowadays is barely even a place where we can have discussions about anything.

As far as I will always say, they throw away opportunities here all the time, and in making major changes to factions, using a system for factions to challenge to simply siege certain NPC bases would create opportunity on both sides to carve out some active purpose at any given time. If you want the IN gone, let the LN go in and take them down one at a time, have a real siege like a POB, either defenders will come and probably hold on to one or more bases, or after a series of real activity, it can be justified they were actually eliminated. Story can work around what happens under the system, and the rest about adding new systems and etc I assume will always come down to votes. But at least with some order there will be a real fair game here. Ironically, the OP further reaffirms that the discord discussion system of driving story is why this place is on an endless spin cycle.

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