Deterrence OF application

[vladimir26]

Reading this is very, very funny but also pathetic. Trolls will troll and continue to troll, but lets take a look at their demands.

A 20man DTR PvE group is approached by 5 people looking for pews? No problem, order 10-15 people to log out, f**k off or play something else and balance the remaining accordingly to the enemies. Oh, and use snubs since corsair lore makes them too poor to use caps. And if the snubs fighters are not aces, just don't bring them. Sair pilots should be formidable. A nomad gunboat is around too? Make sure someone switches to a transport. The nomad player deserves some attention and respect too. How can you let him stay cloaked? Unbelievably rude.

An enemy fleet is comming to Xi and you have to defend? Easy. First number of logging persons who match the attacking party will defend. Others will be stopped from logging, unplug their internet connection if possible, and if not they'll be ordered not to play as corsairs until the encounter is over. Indies log? DTR members will quit the fight, dock and logout ASAP. Easy peasy. Balance must pe kept by all means.

You're planning a public event? Well, do better do advertise it. Every soul around should be aware of your fleets movements, fleet strength and intentions as they might have some suggestions or requiremens for you to take into account. Also, a 3rd party should always be aware of these things since they may own a piece of space, so informing them is mandatory. Should an enemy group appear, all planned activity will be immediatly canceled and an apropiate response will be prepared for the new encounter.

Please be selective when logging in, RP lore should be respected. A weak snub fighter can not be allowed to play one. Also, he can't be allowed to play a cap either, because he has no skill and sair resources is limited, so who would trust a weak pilot the command of a precious cap? And, if you manage to respect all of this until now, try not to balance VHF vs HF or bombers, it lacks balance, obvious.

All of these things can be achieved quite easily, without excuse. Excuses usually mean the lack of willingness to do it. I'll give you a hint. Consider having an officer fly a camera ship, and give orders to every party member. Balance ships, ship classes, even loadouts, numbers, make people log out, make sure 2VHF don't go on a bomber, make sure sair snubs conserve their consumables as resources are few, a sair snub falls back and hugs a cap? Blow him up yourself since he brought shame to the empire while was supossed to be formidable.

Also, you might wanna make sure not so many DTR members are online on sair chars at any given time. You might order them what factions to log or to make, to sort of balance the overall playerbase at a given time. If all of them are online on sairs, another smaller group is FORCED to come for you for pews in small numbers, and all the above requirements must be attended to. Why not to avoid it from the beginning?

Sounds pathetic, isn't it? Sadly, some folks demand this. And it's not a coincidence that only the people who came to gank DTR and others see things like this. And while failing to gank them cuz of certain reasons, the drama is here. So, DTR should be fair and allowed to be ganked by some party crashers. Those people are not willing to stop trying to gank, try to approach DTR in other circumstances or different intentions, or maybe even plan an event or colaborate. No. Their pleasure of blowing up certain groups needs to be satisfied, and everyone needs to respect this and make it happen by any means.