Final Post on This Matter: This is aimed at Independants Primarily, because they are by thier own admission primariy the problem. However, there are some decent Independants, and from the begaining I have aknowledged that. There are also bad faction members, and from the begaining I have admitted that. These admissions do not change the fact that the majority of Independants are lolwutters and the majority of faction members are anything but.
1: Respect is earned, not given. Want me to respect you as a player and a person, show me you are worth it. Untill then all you are entitled to is the courteousies given to all human beings.
2: Don't want to be force into a role? Go play a different server then, this is a ROLE playing server. It is the core rule of this server.
3: Factions and thier members do more for the storyline and role playing community than Independants.
4: Nintey percent of Independants quote lack of will to follow rules, put effort into the role, and game mechanics restrictions as thier reasons for being Independant. (I can start going through the back posts and quoting all of you to prove it, if you like)
5: The only checks and balances placed on Independants are the basic server rules and those placed by themselves. Yes, they can be sreenshotted and reported, but everybody, factions included, can be screenshotted. The fact is, the Admins themselves admit they can't police the entirety of the game and part of Cannon's post was a a question as to how to help the Factions control the players and roleplay. And I Quote,
Quote:The admin team want official factions to: A) Make 'role-play and rules challenged' players better.[quote] That means giving the factions more power over players.
6: Cannon was also asking for ways to coerce the Independant players into factions.
C) Provide a flexible platform for group fun and individual fun to encourage participation by all. There are multiple aspects to this: demonstrating that fair play works, dragging indes into the factions...[quote]
7: And finally, Cannon's post was to ask for rewards for the effort of the factions and faction members. Unlike the Independants, who are unwilling (Thier own words, I can go get quotes) to put the effort into making Discovery a deep and diverse role playing environment, the factions and faction memebers are constantly striving to do this very thing. Extra effort deserves rewards, and for the factions and thier members to recieve a reward, they must perforce, recieve some things the Independants do not.
Suck it up Independants, you have stated you are unwilling to put forth the effort to role play and follow the rules. You cannot cry then, when the other players who will do these things get better toys. What can we do to make Discovery better? We can follow the rules and ROLE PLAY. If you can't be bothered to do that, go to one of the Non-Rp servers, stop ruining ours.
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