More Terrorism...

[Lump Lorry]

I think he's right though, its silly for ANY terrorist to have to demand money in order to kill people. And with the NPC's, they all have the same programming, it just depends how hostile you are with them. Everyone is typically hostile with Xenos, so Xenos tend to shoot all the time.

I think that at least the Unioner and Gaian ID's, and one or the other of the GC or BD should be changed into a terrorist one. That way, all the houses have a terrorist faction/ID.

The mollies tend to act a little more like pirates than the gaians, and I don't think that there should be more than one terrorist faction per house.

From what I know about the action over the last couple of days, it took lots of explaining as to exactly WHY Vlad was shooting. And even then, they werent too sure exactly what a Unioner was. Many people think that trading should be 'safe', however, if you want to play on an RP server, you should be prepared to RP all the time.

A unioner yelling about the people of rheinland over system chat shouldn't be met with "D00D! i'z tryna trade here man, piss off!!"

To help counteract the Terrorist ID's, perhaps we could restrict them to gunboats and below only? Would make some traders happier, and makes it so you cant just run around in a BS going "Im a terrorist, do what i want"

I guess you've got some points.

1) Let me ask a question: since "pure" terrorists for sure do not trade nor smuggle, how do they rise money if they do not pirate or harrass others? Unless they plan to hack the server in order to raise money, they need to pirate; thus I don't think its very strange they do so.

2) Terrorist usually want to reach political results; thus it vould be more kin to reality if they pirate traders in order to afford the expenses to fight regular houses forces. Only in specific cases (e.g. a specific trade route that has some political implications) traders would be a legitimate target in itself.
Otherwise, why a non-affiliated neutral trader should be attacked by terrorists if they are not interested in pirate or harrass him? It's not a relevant political target. In real world, did you ever herd of any terrorist attack against a cargo train (or a cargo ship) full of bread, wood, iron ore or any other good, when no passenger was on board? If it happens... it's quite an exceptional case.

3) Finally, from an RP point of view it would be not appropriate to see a terrorist inside a BS. Terrorisms is supposed to be an "asymmetric war" strategy... but if a terrorist faction can afford the same level of weaponry of the houses, why should they stick to asymmetric wars? In real world they would start a conventional war if they would be able to afford Carriers, Thousands of Tanks, hundreds of Nuclear missles and so on.

These are my 2 cents.

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Lump Lorry
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