The Corsair issue

[Jinx]

first question:

it is tied to the BHG view. as you might have noticed, the way others look upon the corsairs sometimes is very similar to how ppl look upon the BHG. - the BHG is the other faction that suffers from the actions of a few that are projected upon the whole.

in the special case of the corsairs ( in contrast to - lets say the outcasts ) - game mechanice force the BHG to go against the corsairs much more than against the outcasts. - for one, BHG are often forced to go through gamma ( as it was mentioned in numerous threads before - they cannot go through kusari, they can often not go through alaska, going through liberty - bretonia - the tau systems - alpha - nomad systems to get to their destination is outright silly.... which leaves the omicron-gamma route )

cuase they encounter each other so much, they spiral up in "cause this guy did it to me, we do it to them now" ( a dangerous and detrimental behaviour that is still executed in too many times ) - so some BHG outnumber few corsairs, the corsairs are angry, next time, BHG are outnumbered by corsairs, BHG are angry - soon everyone is angry and RP becomes a sideshow. ( in the end, most ppl are competitive and want to win. - how many players do you really see retreat from a battle to safe their precious RP life? - even serious RPers don t do it much )

second question:
look question 1. - there are as many bad corsairs as there are BHG, blood dragons, keepers, lib navy, gaians, phantoms, LPI, KNF, RM etc. - but after encountering the other more often, its always the negative encounters that are remembered - and those encounters will determine how you encounter the other one in the future. - it happens to everyone.

third question:
one solution "might" have been to offer an altenate route for BHGs to reach delta - but the ones that are actually only "passing through" are rather few. - respect of others RP can be learned, but its a trait you need to possess in RL - if you have no concenpt of "what you don t want others to do to you, you won t do to them" - there is little to learn.

once people "feel" badly treated in terms of fairplay, they will strike back. - and like many bullies in school, they will most certainly NOT choose the original cause for their anger, but choose a weaker target. - what comes around, goes around.



postscript:

abouut "when you invade our very homesystem, we strike with everything we got" - i suggest you read the current liberty navy threads. ( the one about how the navy dares to go after any attacker in overwhelming force )

cause - if a BHG flies into gamma in a hammerhead or a bomber, and he is greeted by 3 cruisers. - he will come back with 3 battlecruisers next time. - only .... next time, he ll only meet 2 corsair fighters.

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