Story Railroading.

[Binski]

The sheer hubris to think an event that's been on the schedule since at least June last year was done purely to spite you is just unreal.

How naïve to you take me for? You really expect me to believe that? That is what's unreal. Where can I see evidence of that?

As always, Binski's superiority complex gets the better of him.

Well with all due respect to everyone involved, am I really the only one with such a sentiment around here? For others its just not as noticeable because they get their way without much effort. I don't think after 10 years of the same old same old, it's that bold of a claim. How many story turns can we look back on and scratch our heads wondering what the heck was going on there?

This place would be a totally different game if all those devs were setting up the game to be played out in the game. To destroy something, you should need to do more than shovel in a supply event. I'm still positive this place would function better if we were ALL forced to follow a common system of what moves can do what in regards to making changes to stations and planets. Then the devs can get in game and we know they won't be able to rig things in their favor and will be forced to exert force in-game to get stuff done. I don't think I'm so crazy for saying if they used the faction challenge system I put forth years ago, we could fix some gameplay and rp issues, specifically with how they link together.

Under such a system, for the Gaians to change control of Gaia, they'd need to save and spend like 3000 units of scidata first, to get a 1 week siege attempt. They could have had an event around actually raiding the npc base there, and take the planet by force, making it their IFF, if they bring it down to 0 HP within that time. Then we can technically make a rule where if you control a base for at least 6 months without a challenge, you could 'raise' it and take it out of play (if it qualifies and that would need to be pre-designated). Now that's what I call fair, and it generates tons of activity surrounding it that can be fairly countered by other players. Also under my system, Freelancer bases could only be engageable by special permission anyways, since Gaian's don't have Freelancers as enemies, it depends on the faction ROE's. All of that could be sorted out before employing it. To me, that's the game we should be playing/RP'ing around instead of this confusing and often bias (lawless) mode of operating. It will be hard for me to claim bias when I can see a faction worked on the goal in the open and can prove they earned it as it's going on.

What did raising Gaia cost them? Barely the price of their destroyers.

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The Further Exploits of Captain Antares (August 2015) │ (alt) JonasHudson
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