The Wild & Their Privileges

[Kauket]

A lot of these points in here are pretty wild takes, and counter-point, would likely cause people to metagame even HARDER, since people see a post and subconsciously meta and use the littlest of 'evidence' to justify it. I've seen it happen to others. I have also been the victim of it with a non infected char over the years, and I've seen them do the exact same thing and it's apparently OK for them to do it. Meta has been a huge issue in Disco.

We shouldn't be giving Order players the ability to kill other characters, especially when they've already falsely accused characters of being infested in the past to gain a free pvp ticket. Arguably, the Order also made their efforts nullified by doing these things in the past. Likewise, Wild can't go up and randomly assassinate people or gain critical intel. I wouldn't want to wish any faction to force a char death really because you know how players can be like in Disco.

Have you tried playing a casual infectee yourself? Not all characters have to aim for the stars, I personally feel like the best kind of subterfuge characters are just normal characters who work their way up.

The only correct take in this thread is the powergaming regarding people making a genuine mistake and getting whoopsied out into detection. And I think it's really really silly that people cling to "the dark... the light... " etc lingo while undercover on Wild. Probably fine if they're going loud.

As for how people could avoid detection and remain in certain positions...? It's also probably good to remember nepotism and corruption is pretty rampant in universe, so in more ""civilized"" areas you could even bribe people to avoid scans. There's also another factor of whether colonies bother to add in scanning capabilities, because it incurs a lot of expenses. As you may know, Freelancer is a capitalist dystopia that frequently has had cases of them cutting corners with safety in jobs etc.

Why would anyone care about a threat that was defeated - that everyone was cured - that these threats only appear in the Omicrons? There's not a lot of post-war lore as is anyhow. And there's the other factor of people not believing it, or seeing extra security things as an oppression to one's privacy and rights - it could be possible that colonists protested against further scanning, but thats headcanon that can be made up. I'd say in colonies there's lots of reasons to evade it, but going on higher security places like Order bases? Yeaaah, probably not gonna fly. Plus, we haven't really seen if Incubi also 'evolved' too - like how the ships have evolved. But it's safe to assume there hasn't been much change.

You have given them the capability to assume any role without engaging in prior roleplay.

This applies to every role in the game. Every role. And they can use said privileges themselves if they wanted. Nothing stops "good roleplayers" from using the role. I wonder why they don't?

Absurd roleplay. Meaningless roleplay. Call it what you will. Now, to some extent, you have even approved the notion that these same characters, devoid of any backstory, wander aimlessly from corner to corner of Sirius, engaging in mundane conversations solely to fulfill "officialdom requirements."

No offence, but who are you to determine what RP is useless? Slice of life RP is just as important as characters who have greater ambitions/big schemers. Officialdom aside, you are basically complaining that people are RPing? Why does it suddenly matter what RP style you go with just because of an ofl tag?


I don't really see a lot of Wild characters these days. Maybe you can make one to inspire people?