Fairplay vs Roleplay

[Titan]

Hmm, I voted for Roleplay, though I'd prefer if there was an option that let you "mix" them. First, because everyone has a different view on what is fair and what is not, the people losing are almost always thinking it was unfair, no matter what happened. Don't deny it, you know it happens. As for mixing those two things well..people here mentioned reinforcements and all that before. That is very good. But if you say see..2 fighters, and you have 4 fighters and 2 gunboats available. You send those 4 fighters in, and what if they lose? Should fairplay dictate that you have to let those 2 who won, run amok and kill or pirate or whatnot? Or should you send the gun/missile boats in. I'd send them frankly, both of them. There are a lot of loose ends in these discussions, in fact it is a pointless discussion just because everyone has their own opinion on both roleplay and fairplay, so a conclusion can never be reached. The best you and everyone else can hope to get is that the person on the other side is willing to balance things out, or at least give you a chance. I frankly don't want to balance things out, I'll use Talon as an example, he wouldn't sacrifice his men for fairplay, and no other person in RP should. I will of course give the opponent a chance, I won't send caps in a fighter fight unless absolutely necessary, but I won't let the pirate fight my men one on one, when I can send 2 or 3 fighters on the pirate. Though not more than 3, that's unnecessary and it would lessen the overall effectiveness of naval patrols, because let's face it, there's always more trouble, and an entire fleet going for one guy is ooRP as much as sending one guy after one guy.

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