I am going to start with a simple statement: It appears that nearly everyone else who has posted here that is not a DW has tried to show you the negitive things you do on a regular basis and in return, suggest ideas, possibilities and help that will improve upon what you have begun here.
Now onto My Personal View, and it is just that, Mine. This view point does not nessisarily reflect those of other players or factions.
I have to agree with Mr James in his latest post on many things. You have listed your diplomacy, but looking at it makes me feel like your view of everyone is nothing more than Hostile Zoners. Your ZOI is not even listed, yet on more than one occasion and post of yours, you claim to feel threatened in the Guard System you call home.
YET, nearly all your other stories do not call that guard system Home. How can you feel so threatened by the activities of one group near that System when you barely refer to it as Home for you. You refer on many occasions to a place that does not exist in Disco nor that any other player would have the ways or means of getting there to even try to do anything with or against you and yours.
Next point, practicly everything everyone has said, you have argued with or tried to burn down with arguments of one kind or another. You asked for feedback, and from what it looks like to me, you do not like what your hearing.
Role Play, well, other than exactly one time and a very short one at that, I have never seen or encountered any DW player trying to create or actively participate in ongoing RP with anyone anywhere. That includes the system you are so worried about. On more than one occasion, its been outright hostilities starting from the DW. You have to complain why when one Battle Ship is ambushed by a large force, well ask yourself what did that Ship do to require such overwhelming force. What did others of your Clan do to earn such relations. I can provide a neat example that actualy generated a true Role Play oppertunity not only for one faction I am part of, but for at least 4 or more other factions and clans.
Said example actualy had a DW member involved, but do you know the kind of RP that he tried to have? 7 SOB ships and his Battle Cruiser against, count it, ONE Bomber. And that DW went out of his way to travel three full systems to get there.
Looking at your Faction ID, you claim to be Mercs with BHG Tag. Mercs are for hire are they not? Yet I have seen and heard on several occasions that you are not for Hire and do not take bounties, one of those times I myself under a compleatly unrelated character tried to contact the only known Bounty Hunter online at that time, which was a DW member and was compleatly ignore. I know it was an active player because I had seen the locations of the system that DW was in change twice. So are you Mercs, Bounty Hunters, or more like a Military Unit, which from the feel of your History that Suzi put on the first post, it seems more like a Military unit than Mercs.
Back to Diplomacy for a moment. Just because one group is flaming Red to you does not mean they are naturaly hostile. Some factions build up their characters quickly that way, yet it is the player who you should consider first, not a Tag. Tags can change easily. ID's do not. And by the way a great many ID's read, they are not your enemy, yet your clan has acted more on the IFF than on the ID involved.
I also would like to note the time zone thing. I am on at many an odd hour due to my profession, and I look to see who is on and where for RP oppertunities. I have to agree with many voices here, I have yet to see a single DW visit any Omicron system at all, not to mention quiet a few of the DW still travel through New york Space on a regular basis.
Again, my personal opinion, and I will tend to ramble on from point to point so bare with me please.
Ship types. Something I have to agree with so many others here. I have never personaly seen anything less than a Cruiser Class or heavier in the DW arsenal. Now that you claim all DW members have Bombers or Fighters is something entirely new to me. I have Seen a fighter/bomber squaderon take on and take out destroyer groups before. An Example: New York few days ago: With nothing on heavier than a couple of Bombers, 7 players took on and killed two Hacker GB's and an Outcast Destroyer.
You point out your current primary antagonist use a lot of Caps, well, consider that teh numbers they have are actualy limited and defined by their Faction write up. At best, they have 6 or 7 Talacra LIGHT Cruisers and 2 Pretorians. Nothing heavier than that. You have several battle Cruisers and Battle Ships. I have seen mabey one DW gunship, the rest are Cruiser weight or greater, so class for class, ship for ship, you out power your enemy, yet complain when they set out to hammer on you in force the VERY same way you treat them.
And before you say it, for those who know and are involved, we all know you base all your hostility one incident which keeps being brought up and used as your excuse to go to war. So, when some one else steps in and levels a statement you did not like, from what i have see, you respond with more threats and a declaration of more potential hostility. No mention of peace making efforts. No mention of Diplomacy involved with either major group your currently dealing with. Both groups have their Diplomats who would be MORE than welcome to begin talks and RP with the DW other than to start shooting or to start running when you come with the heavy end of the hammer.
Thats it for my current train of thought though likely to edit this as time permits and I can think of more than I feel needs to be added or to simply get said so I can focus on more detailed and more enjoyable RP.
I would bet good hard credits that Raekur is going to put the flak cannon to MY opinion and feed back.
And final the Word: If something constructive actualy comes of this, I will not only be shocked and pelased, but I would be more than willing to reopen more reasonable RP with the DW.
