Rules : Why you get more of them...

[Virus]

Heh... I've been playing this mod since... What? 4.76? Second mod version, after the first that was only released for a month?

Let me tell you. We needed no government, then. We had no rules. We needed no rules. We were fair to each other, we accepted our losses and celebrated our wins. So when Xoria tells you that we have rules for a reason, I can ensure you there are reasons, and they are very good ones... They weren't made just to annoy the folks that could get along and talk-out their differences. Though, there were often flames, we all were friends in the end, or at least friendly rivals. Such as Dab and myself. Never quite a friend, but nothing against him, except his huge ego. : P

At the end of the day, it all comes down to the fact that we need to just relax, play our starships game, and accept the fact that it is a game. It is a simulation that, in combination with the forums, can feel realistic at times, but frankly, discovery will one day end. And when it does, all this realism, this simulation, this dream-like fantasty...

It's going to disappear.

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Exactly right, mate. Sort of what I was saying above. We played to have fun. What people need to begin to realize is that this a combat game. We fight, we kill, we die. We respawn. We have added a role-playing community around this game to make it more realistic. We made it more fun, gave it more depth, more feel, made it even more escapist that it already was. It is still, however, a game.

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