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[Sprolf]

Try the Molly Republic.

We don't have a ton of people, but the ones we do have are nice.
We can all roleplay, and we all do.

Generally we pirate ships for supplies and fun, and take all the previous gold for ourselves. More often than not, we run afoul of the local authorities when we're trying to do so, and this can lead to some great roleplay, and sometimes some combat. (I'm not good at PvP myself.) Generally anything you do with a Molly is good-natured, and I personally use a lot of ironic humour when roleplaying. They all talk with accents, they're angry miners - most things end up being woven through with good amounts of humour, I find. From calling Austin Goodmen "Goodman" or "Goodie" to harping on about the evils of the Synth Paste to a trader carrying it... and then exploding it all over his hull so he has to clean it. Bwahaha.

And those two things just happened in the last two times I was online. (And we also blew up two cruisers. That was actually fun...)

Applying all that into roleplay is quite fun. People are never really loathe to roleplay back, as we deal with BAF, BPA, Kusari, Gaians, Corsairs, Buccaneers, etc. Those factions aren't spammed by lolwutters (Corsairs, at least. Mostly those that come to Bretonia can roleplay.) There's plenty of traders to catch and roleplay with as well. Miners in Dublin too.

Pretty much everyone you find who has an IFF and is in Bretonia can roleplay, save for the itinerant loltrader you find once in a while. Generally, the Gatway and BMM and Bowex gents we run into are great to roleplay with - as are all the other groups within Bretonia. The one exception is some of the miners in Dublin - more often than not, they're the sort who F1 or run away without a word as soon as they see you. (They get so very annoying after a while, and I never explicitly go out looking for them.) Other than those fiends, Bretonia is not lacking in roleplay.

It is, amittedly, a little lighter than some other areas when it comes player count, but it's been rising lately; and we've been having good, good fun with it.

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