Fairplay vs Roleplay

[Athenian]

This is begging the question - you're using the RP scenario (xenos=underdogs) to justify a pro-RP argument (underdogs get thwacked and should accept it). My point is that it's more a question of fair play being balanced along side role play (xeno=underdog; underdog gets thwacked but at least let's remember there is another person playing here and let him enjoy it at least).

As to the underdog thing: there's a world of difference between being an underdog and being an insect. An underdog at least has a fighting chance. Not of winning, nor even of escaping, but the player will certainly like to at least leave (even after getting shot down)knowing they were defiant to the end in the face of the overwhelming odds they faced. On top of this is the question of proportion - do you really need seven fighters and a gunboat to nail that intruder? Well, no. And it's not as if anyone doesn't need to be told that.

The most offensive thing to me is the silence - the bloody awful silence that precedes the occasional whupping. Couldn't the gunboat captains at least taunt a fleeing enemy and leave the firing for one of their half a dozen escorts? Look at all the opportunities for a decent bit of dialogue lost...

I have no problem whatsoever with losing fights. I probably lose about 90% of them. It's when I have the feeling that I might as well have been playing Counterstrike or Doom that I wonder if there is ever going to be more to video games than killing and shooting.

I imagine a Junker going to Kusari would at least get a telling off before they decided to destroy your ship. And maybe they would do you the courtesy of some haughty victorious laughter afterwards. I'd hate to think that you went all that way for silence and gunfire.

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