NOTICE: Pobs in Nomad Systems

[The_Godslayer]

You know, I normally don't tend to get involved with these posts because I tend to end up banned when I say whats on my mind, but hell, a permaban is a rite of passage for Nomad leaders at this point.

By your own logic, no unlawfuls should be able to build in house space or in asteroird fields.
Isn't that what I said? Sure is...

My point still stands: why should a faction get special treatment? Why does it not apply to every other faction out there who has to deal with the same thing on a daily basis?

The answer is not as important; having to ask ourselves "why" is what worries me and other community members.

Right, this would be a great argument, except the entire thing was done maliciously. We did siege bases. Back to back, day after day, and stupid ass hours of the day for some people, because all you need to do is throw down a PoB and set it to ass-past-midnight or "working my 9-5 so that I can stay alive and not homeless" o'clock, and our cleanup becomes a literal detriment to our health, whereas you input two commands.

You all were so proud of this that you made fun of the fact that all it took was a single codename to more than pay for the cost of spamming PoBs. And then you made fun of the lack of admin intervention. Rule of the road: Talk shit, get hit. Congrats, we got admin intervention.


Frankly, activity around PoBs, especially from the Base Owned Players, has always been childish. This is no surprise. What do you do when a child oversteps their boundaries? You punish them. This was the low end of the grand spectrum of get-backs, cousin. I've got other things in store to roll out for as long as this continues, because as the leader of K'Hara, I am a sadistic tyrant. I'd love to stack misery upon misery on you and see how sad you get over pixels and numbers.

I just think this attitude of "no one should be in Nomad systems except Nomads!" is incredibly unhealthy and at the end of the day is a net loss for activity. You will always have low-RP elements and yeah they suck - so just deal with them using the rules that already exist! It's what the rest of the server has to do. I just don't understand why there is this weird exception granted for Nomads, when you can actually look at lore in-game and see the argument isn't as consistent as people try to pretend it is.

The Nomad systems have always been high risk, high reward. Three to four years ago, when the Asuras was nearly mandatory for fleet fights, traveling through Major to get the wreck was actually hard. The NPCs would CD you. Going there in a lone freighter was incredibly punishing unless you constantly logged off or spent the impressive cost of buying a cloak. They've always made you work for "The best guns in the game". The fact that they put one in Iota was straight up comical. It used to be in Psi, a system we Nomads haven't really worried about for a while because there's straight up nearly nothing to do there unless you're involved with one specific (my specific) roleplay. That was why there wasn't big bad Nomads running your fade in Psi, because frankly hunting down Psi is just for fun. Major is a bigger answer, that's the Dyson Sphere. Pretty important. We'll kill you decently fast if you go there. Iota is our main base and home. It's home to our two most important stations, a historical landmark, and a memorial to the best Nomad Leader that ever lived. We are killing you regardless of your intention there. Mess with the viper and you get the fangs.

Spamming PoBs was a completely OORP method to remove 100% of the risk to get the best guns in the game. F1ing is also like that, and fun fact if you F1 in Major to avoid getting blasted I am reporting you for disconnecting to avoid interaction. It was, in fact, a crazy choice to place the encounter everyone wants to farm in the system we give the most shits about. That's a dev question, not a me question. I'm here to tell you that each of you base owned players should feel shame defending mechanics abuse and complete lack of roleplay in a roleplay game, but you won't because you're base owned players and your bases own you. You lack basic free will.

Also why OF nomads just can`t siege those POBs 24/7 which is clearly what they MUST do?

Probably because we are adult human beings with jobs, families, obligations, and sleep schedules. Something I am sure you can relate to, isn't that right?

As such, POB deployment in the Nomad systems (Omicrons Iota, Psi, and Major) are not permitted short of an SRP, and any that still exist in those systems will be handled on a case-by-case basis by administration.

Have any of you stopped to consider that, perhaps, its simply blocked by the config now? Like if you go to Iota and try to deploy a PoB, it just won't let you? I see an awful lot of "but the noobies, they'll be sanctioned by big bad Omicron Cartel" when it looks to me like they'll go to Iota, put the command, and nothing will happen.

Make an example of the offenders to show the right way this should be done.

You're right, they should have been sanctioned.

Isn't there already an encounter in Zeta? I believe that it's best kept where it is, with adjustments to encourage people to go there. Why are Nomad players so desperate to have an empty system that no one visits? What's the point in these places if they're not meant to have players? At that point they're worse than buffer systems. Encounters in Iota could be incredibly interesting and I stand by the fact that remains farming back in the day was a fantastic activity generator for all players in that region. I wasn't present when it was removed, but I can see the obvious effects of the removal.

I just think this attitude of "no one should be in Nomad systems except Nomads!" is incredibly unhealthy and at the end of the day is a net loss for activity. You will always have low-RP elements and yeah they suck - so just deal with them using the rules that already exist! It's what the rest of the server has to do. I just don't understand why there is this weird exception granted for Nomads, when you can actually look at lore in-game and see the argument isn't as consistent as people try to pretend it is.

I just feel that the situation has just been getting progressively worse over the years - adding Nomad weapon platforms with CDs at system entrances to deter players, adding high-level NPCs to deter players, and now this. What's next? High level radiation that Nomads are immune to? Local jump holes that only Nomads can fly through? Back in my day, we just killed things we didn't want on our turf

Yeah, you were always a champion of faction-bias integrity, weren't you?




Please give me a reason to flame you.

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I also love the accusation of "The Omicron Cartel". If I kill you with a codename and you ask nicely to have it back, I would give it to you. I don't fly capships. I despise current capship balance. You can have your capship codenames, they are straight up worthless to me. If you don't take them back, I'll probably sell them for wholesale or more likely to an NPC base because forum sales are extra hassle that I don't feel like dealing with. Because I don't care about the codenames. Hope most likely doesn't care either. Hope can farm that encounter solo on a bomber with a cloak. You could probably ask Hope nicely too, I doubt he needs more.

Anyway, continue on this path. I enjoy the drama, and its been like 2 years since I was fed a proper amount of disco tears.

And since you've already shown that you are down to get petty

Let me tell you, I am down to get petty too. Lets light this firework, huh?

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