The current state of RP, or lack thereof

[Nightfall]

*Puts on flame-shield*

All this is alright! But!... (there's always a 'but' ain't it?)

The Osiris is still the best battleship in Discovery and with it's greatest drawbacks gone (the fact you could kill it with one Heavy Mortar shot, once the shields were down) is made even better.

But (another one :laugh:) everyone wants to have more firepower.

Now, we reached the point from everyone flying an Osiris or a Battlestar to no one flying an Osiris or a Battlestar (well almost on both statements). Why has that happened? Because the Osiris has two turrets less than the rest and a bit less hull? It can outmaneuver any other battleship and can pretty well dodge fire. I still think it's the best around, I fly an Outcast Destroyer for RP reasons as it's an Outcast ship. I changed from my Osiris one because of that, in spite of the RP story I made for the whole thing of an Outcast getting one.

A lot of you can follow that example instead of thinking of whatever absurd reason to have what they think is the most 'uber' ship at the moment at any cost!

Make another freelance char and affiliate with the faction selling it or make another RP story of a freelancer getting it and I can buy that. Maybe, just maybe, one or two like 'out of faction' ships in a whole fleet would be acceptable with a damn good RP story.



the Empire/Rebellion thing: The Empire was always about having numbers 'They always fly at least 3:1 against us' (or something in those lines) was said not once by the Rebels (I don't remember was it in the films or in the games, but I'm sure it was).

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov
The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor