Rush on Gallia

[Tarkis]

Sorry to revert back to before any input was given, but i'd like to comment on a bit the original thought presented in this thread.

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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

I agree with this entirely.
Rushing in, trying to stick your foot on one of the positions of power before anyone else, and appointing yourself as leadership is ridiculous and rude. Even if you say you'll allow anyone to come in and make factions and characters beside you, it's difficult for others to do so. Say there are two separate player factions for a single NPC faction, and they each have policies or laws. Now, say some of those were to conflict in a serious way, who would you listen to? Does one player faction have the right to overrule the policies of the other, is it fair to the other faction to be under the same NPC tag with an entirely different interpretation of the faction's role?

Yes, they could merge and combine their ideas into a single, hopefully better, entity.
Would this happen? I'd like to think so, but probably not. Each would have arguments as to why their faction roleplay fit the NPC faction better, and why the other faction was in error. The players who couldn't be there to join in with the initial position grab would feel left out. Those who rushed in and grabbed up positions as fast as they could would feel like they were being shoved out of place.
Do we really want a "I was here first!" epidemic?

Correct me if i'm mistaken, but it is my understanding that, relative to the other houses, very little is known about Gallia. That leaves it open for people to step in and define it, give it some history, some goals, maybe a few flaws. Which would be great, but not if good opinions and voices are pushed aside unknowingly because they didn't go make an important Gallic character within the first day of 4.85 being out.

Honestly, if i had it my way, i would make all the Gallic bases undockable to all except official testers until the release of the final 4.85 version. Seeing as that's not the case, it's up to the community to restrain themselves and, as Trevelyan said, back off a little.

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