Hogosha in NY

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It's not common sense to deduce that "Hogosha must be hostile to police" if they were ever to reach Liberty.

We are not playing "Freelancer", we are playing the the "Discovery Freelancer Role Playing Mod".

You are trying to extrapolate an assumed tenet from the basically vanilla mindset of the original game and then lay it over Discovery as a "rule" when the "rule" here is role play.

In role play, there are reasons for Hogosha to visit NY on occasion. There is no reason to assume they must be hostile to Liberty authorities.

If you do absolutely believe this, then you must also absolutely believe Junkers must be hostile to Kusari authorities as well.

If that is the case, why are we playing Junker characters who do not have red reputations with all Kusari lawful groups?

I understand his point, but it can't be established as a given rule. So the next step is, if it isn't established as a given rule, how do we role play it?

My solution is to do it in role play creatively--the other proposed solution is to limit the options of those players for an assumed rule.

One way says, play it. The other says, restrict play. There is no reason to restrict Hogosha role play to only Kusari--not a reason that enhances role play. The only "reason" to do it is that players not playing Hogosha want a simplistic solution for a faction they aren't playing themselves.

I think we have a total of five active Hogosha players on here (and only three are really active). This is a "big" problem that requires the Hogosha players be screwed down even tighter?

Why? It will not help get players involved with the faction. It restricts their play options. What is the advantage?

I am looking at it from the viewpoint of "What encourages more play?" not, "How do I make sure no one is playing differently than I want them to?"

This whole thread started essentially with a "I don't like this or think it's fair and can't we stop them?" premise. That's why I said the viewpoint is preconceived and biased.

And...argh..it isn't affecting me (my characters). I have a Hogosha reputationed, MERCENARY tagged character. He can go anywhere he likes. But I have also played a Hogosha and understand for the faction to be played (which it really isn't) the additions Igiss put in the mod for them need to be able to be exploited by players with Hogosha characters.

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