Quote:But just to the Corsair you spoke about, as an Outcast, I would never let Corsair to dock on Malta, not even speaking about joining Outcasts. In my RP, for example, you are born as Outcast, you cannot join them, and such my character tends to disrespect people who are not born on Malta, just catching up with Outcasts. Altough i would not shoot him, just send him awaqy, totally in RP. But That is, again, just about fantasy, and I surely wont tell anyone that his fantasy is bad and mine good.
(my Outcasts is one of those who tells that cardamine was a gift which has made, over the genaration, new race, above normal humans, from Outcasts, tha's why he disrespects people who are not on Malta for genarations.
That is a perfect example. Person 1 in this case is a Corsair trying to defect to the Outcasts, Person 2 is an Outcast with a sense of pride (and superiority) who does not want this.
RP dialogue ensues, both characters advance their storylines either through combat or acceptance of one another, and that is what the server is all about. But this is all within the bounds of the respective characters' RP. However, someone telling said Corsair "He can't RP like that" is not just wrong, but just plain selfish and unsportsmanly.
However, Limiting one's self within some boundaries of RP is both important and enriching to said character's storyline. Take Ironwatsas for example. While he has sucessfully begun construction of a sizable military-industrial complex (in the form of the Consortium, which already has a number of faction members), Watsas himself is still a slave to the people that engineered him into a Robot, and makes himself appear to follow their orders, but secretly has his own agenda, and if he is to persue it, he would have to utterly seperate himself from his 'benefactors' thus cutting the Consortium off from possibly their only chance of subduing Sirius.
Not to mention that most of the population dislikes Robots, AIs, and Cyborgs quite a bit. Specifically, the GC, whom Watsas has affection for, and a desire to protect. However, most of the GC don't genuinely like him (as far as I know) because he is a megalomaniacal Robot and a percived threat to them. Though, that open the RP oppurtunity of Watsas cloning his human body, but losing his advantages of being a Robot, but at the same time freeing himself from his masters' direct control and possibly gaining more favor with the GC.
At the end of the day, most of my characters' ships and weapons ingame are secondary to the characters' themselves backstory. Infact, only a few are really capable of PvP, and I as a player am not all that good at fighting other ships of comprable capability. What I am really here for is the rich and diverse universe and interacting storylines that I can become part of.
The Consortium as a faction adheres to this principal. Though we may have sizable military forces in RP, we're very distinguishing about what we attack and how. Ultimately, the point of the faction is to add another storyline, this time of a SciFi military-industrial complex with a bit of 'Mad Scientist' themes and Cyberpunk undertones. As well, this gets synergy effects from our interactions with factions like the GC, NovaPG, KNF, AFA, Hogosha, Cryer, {SU}, and to some extent the Order, Corsairs, and Wilde.
In RP, our goals are to conquer Sirius outright, out of RP, our goals are to give a lot of people something diffrent to RP with, trying to learn our motives or find a way to stop us, while those factions we are allied with have to contend with the moral dillema of supporting such a secritive and ultimately dangerous faction.
Such is an example of non-standard RP for an entire faction as opposed to an individual.
