Fairplay vs Roleplay

[mwerte]

it's hard. Roleplay dictates that the Outcasts bring in the heavy guns to stomp on the Corsair fighters that just entered Malta orbit (and vice versa) but Fairplay says leave the caps out until the enemys have vaped your fighter corp. Speaking as someone who has been on both sides of that battle it's a fickle line. I don't mind so much getting crushed by a defending force of multipule dreadnaughts and cruisers and gunboats but I do mind bringing all missile boats to a fighter battle. RP dictates we should, FP says we shouldn't.

I guess it's situational. If it's the RP of the Xenos to be outnumbered and outgunned everywhere they go then they can't really complain about it. But when it's the Xenos getting attacked by 22 missile boats then yes, it's a problem.

Speaking of duels; My OC bomber was chasing a IMG GB out of Alpha where he had farmed some pilots. Chased him through Eta/Theta into 41 where there were no less then 5 Corsair gunboats (mostly OPG but 2 indys) and Gentle in his Titan waiting for me. Like the suicidal pilot I am I charged the GB that I had been chasing and managed to do some serious damage to it before Gentle challanged me to a duel for the lives of the pilots. I managed to SN him and collect my pilots. Then they all opened up on me again. I ducked out into Cambridge where I flew around trying to find a place to hide from the Corsairs hot on my tail. They brought in 2 cruisers and more GBs/Fighters to hunt me down. Then the BHG showed up and as I had a 50mil bounty on my head they went after me. I managed to sneak away to FP 1 after 2 hours of playing cat and mouse. Docking at the FP I found that I had less credits then it would take to repair my poor ship. (this was back before /givecash). I logged for an hour come back to find 2 BH GBs staring at me. I managed to escape to the Hessian base in 11. Logged for more time. Got Lohingren to come down from Alpha and give me some cash to repair my ship. then FPSDoug in his Corsair Bomber shows up and wastes us both. >.<

Moral of the story, don't get me started on stories. :P

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