Quote:Some special RP is ok here and there, but when 90% of the server is composed of infected people, cyborg supermutants, and black forces spec ops agents that can kill you with a sock, it doesnt exactly make for a realistic universe.
From the player character perspective - it's not supposed to, either.
This goes back to my more than 30 years of experience role-playing, starting off with D&D and continuing on through way too many different games. (Anyone else remember GURPS or Twilight 2000?)
The PLAYER character normally IS an exceptional person in the universe, especially compared to the normal NON-PLAYER character. Think about it - if you really were to play a totally normal person the would be the backbone of the game - you'd log in, go to work in your virtual factory and make synth paste for 8 hours, go home, get something to eat, and go to virtual bed.
Boring, eh? Welcome to real life 101.
Now, there ARE people in our world today that do exceptional things and really ARE the special ops agents that can kill you with a glance. Unless you're willing to invest the time, effort, and (oh, yeah) the minor chance of getting killed for REAL, then you're not going to do that. Thus, the role-playing game.
As for using their own equipment - certainly the Liberty Military should use Liberty turrets, the Bretonian Military should use THEIR equipment - but what about those of us who don't have turrets specific to our faction? We're going to put out a bid for equipment, and who ever bids on it is going to be where we're going to buy our equipment. You see the same thing in the real world today, with countries that don't have arms factories buying their tanks from Germany, their planes from the U.S., and their foot-soldier weapons from Russia.
