(08-14-2022, 08:27 AM)Shimamori Wrote: The point of Greylock is that regardless of how they try, neither LR, nor OC, nor their forces combined cannot take anything in a capitol system of Liberty or any other House. Imagine Honduras suddenly buddying up with Nicaragua and Costa Rica to attack the US. Would be a spectacular sight to behold. It just doesn't make sense for OC or any other unlawful organisation to capture anything from a House unless it is some remote listening outpost. It doesn't make any inRP sense and breaks the immersion. I for sure won't participate in anything like that bcs I play for RP not for ***** C&C style RTS base vs base. I have other games for that.
Right but again, we could set the system to excempt certain combinations. Not a big deal. Besides, if OC's are like Honduras/Costa Rica/Nicaragua, why do they have battleships, and ZOI inside Liberty? By that argument, the ID is OP. So which is wrong, letting the ID be OP, or the suggested siege system?
To me, it breaks immersion to tell players they can't try, or make oorp changes to bases and systems with fixed story. If you only want to RP, then fine, just do that, but there is Dungeons & Dragons for those who can't handle the pvp aspect of the video game. I wince at that argument, I never hear you complain about the lack of closed roleplay, 1 hour respawn timer, fixed outcomes to events, that all kill immersion here.
Everyone ask yourself; how many credits have you earned in the last 6 months? How many have you spent? Many many ships over 500 mil have you bought in the last 6 months? How many pieces of equipment over 250 mil have you bought in the last 6 months? How often do you use those ships and equipment? I'm at zero across the board because there is no need for any of it. This is Freelancer, not D&D, and we have a habit of hiding behind the RP shield to avoid stuff... when a system does nothing but add more real causes for real interactions and real rp.
It is exactly because I care about RP that I disagree with you. Ok, the OC have ZOI in Liberty. ZOI is ooRP rules regulation and inRP representation of the regions of operation (do not confuse it with conquest). Your mentioning ZOI and having BS as arguments related to RP are quite laughable. Now look at the confrontation of the OC vs Liberty from the point of view of socio-political-economic situation: a few OC battleships far away from home with extremely stretched supply lines and limited support of the local allies are put against an absolute beast of a powerhouse of Liberty with multiple fleets of many battleships/battlecruisers/cruisers, etc, excellent supply lines at home, strong economy to support them with food/repairs/etc, know-how and expertise. Liberty can literally wipe any OC "fleet" out of existence if the OC show up openly in New York. The only chance for someone to breach in NY successfully is another House and even then it will suffer from supply lines and fighting at home of Liberty, so probably only an alliance of Houses can succeed there. Thus, it is just ridiculous to offer a system that would make an attack of OC on Newark possible if one cares about the RP. This is not "real" RP like you say, this is some Twilight fan-fiction level of plausability. Again, there are other problems with the system.
P.S. D&D allows for PvP and I have tried it too. Just do the meta with cleric with strength domain to oneshot ppl or a neutral unsmiteable druid with a 1lvl monk dip to also be OP. Well, if timestop is not allowed, otherwise - timestop and stomp.
