Rush on Gallia

[beander2]

There's been a huge rush, understandably enough, to create Gallic characters and set up Gallic ships. Part of this rush has been players positioning themselves to represent key Gallic factions, even though that is not supposed to happen until 4.86. Part of that is the behavior by some of portraying themselves in leadership positions, particularly the Council. Whether it's cruisers in Orkney demanding attention, or players on the forums acting as Council leadership, it seems to me that this is all too much, too fast.

There are a number of folks who would like to participate in Council activity who aren't able to at this point; they might have significant time constraints, and not even exlpored Gallia yet. But they've had their eye on it for a while, and would like to join in. Yet, they're being trampled on or stepped over in the mad rush of other players jockeying for top spots. I think that's just poor form, folks.

I mean, good grief, to my knowledge, we haven't even RP'd the discovery of Gallia yet. The version came online Sunday, and immediately we have working agreements between houses. No "What? There's another house? There are more survivors? Wait, they want to conquer us but there's an entity standing in the way of that?" Nothing. We have been oorp as a body, I think, in skipping over all that and automatically assuming a lot of prior knowledge. The entire landscape of Sirius has changed literally overnight, and it's as though we skipped over entirely the whole "first contact" phase.

Can we just back off a little, please?

Edit: Oh, and this is a side effect of what I'm talking about: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...=33541&st=0

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar