Rheinland 2.0

[looqas]

Hold your horses there folks. Lets not jump into anything too drastic here.

What I personally can say about the whole matter is, that:

Rheinland should have capital ships in it's military. They are one those that strike fear into the other's who'd like to go against the chancellor. I'd say they epitomize the power of Rheinland. But what I personally find very unlikely is the amount of them online at the same time and chasing couple of petty small craft like some of the cases have been lately.

What I suggest here to all indie RH cap owners is that if there are already caps in Rheinland online do not bring yours (unless there's a sizable opposing force), but rather come in a smaller craft.

I know this sounds a lot like someone telling others what to do and it's not entirely false accusation either.

The only minor gripes about the indie RH caps have is that they are used funnily. Not in plausible way. Chasing small fighters etc. Here's the golden nugget for any house capital ship driver and it goes a very long way making the RP better. It's really simple. Do not move unless you get a request for help. You all know what I mean with this. Too many times we all just look at the chat screen and see, "oh, there's enemies about, I'll go investigate." Battleships or other caps do not investigate such things. Or if you are alone representing the authority in the system then make up some RP like "Roger command. Multiple contacts. I smell trouble. Proceeding to investigate with caution." Way too many times I've noticed that a cap comes in to my radar at 14k and no line of RP has been spoken before it. It feels like seeking pvp. Seeking a fight is ok if you RP it BEFOREHAND.

If you RP your intentions well beforehand it achieves 3 purposes.

A) It's RP. Makes the whole thing much more enjoyable.
B) Signals the opposition that you are coming. They then have a rare luxury to decide to fight you or not.
C) The more you RP the better signal you give us, the pirates, we actually CAN have an RP session with you. Meaning that if we have decided to fight you then it's pretty obvious we are not going anywhere -> we can have a more lengthy RP session.

And at least I can promise myself that I will let you finish you RP before engaging, so there's no hurry.

I hope you guys understand what I mean. Rheinland military (RM and indies) is not lopsided to cap spam. You almost always have small craft to go with you too. Sometimes it just seems so, but I haven't felt myself being cap spammed by you lot. The only whinery I have is the lack of RP and some oorp usage of your caps.

On the other hand BH caps seem to be there to score kills. Those are the problem.

I have to say kudos to couple of new hunters I've met there who fly a small craft (fighters and bombers): John Alphopos and the other guy (sorry I can't remember you). Also the RWK guys (who the heck are you by the way). Good job. A little too eager to engage and I'd like to see more talk coming our of you, but pretty good show so far.


EDIT: On the other hand yesterday was a big fighter/bomber furball at the Brandeburg involving a lot of people from LWB, RHA, RM, RWK and indie BHs. I was actually amazed no BH caps came. I believe everyone was having fun. I can't say there was too much RP involved when I joined (the fight had already started) and I got stripped of guns while trying to type some RP in the middle of the fight:)

I really suck at typing and fighting. I find that /setmsg heaven-sent.

And remember. The more you come at us in caps the more you force us to use bombers. Right now all that this cap spam is doing is making us one heck of a bomber pilots. We'll be even more efficient and coordinated in our little machines.

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