Are there any factions left that will offer me what I want? I'm sorry if this sounds like a bitching thread, I don't want it to be. I want someone to point me the way to a wonderful faction that will fulfill my desires and make me want to continue playing this great game. With such a question, I think that it would be best if I explained what it is that I want and a little background as to why I'm becoming distraught enough to post this.
When I started my first character, I was filled with excitement and wonder. I've spent hours reading the rules of the server, and posts that experienced players have made as to how the game should be played, and how role playing should be incorporated. My first character worked his way to Mactan to join the Lane Hackers, thinking that it would be the best faction for me to start in. The Lane Hackers sounded like everything I wanted: they were strictly RP, they sounded like they worked as a team and demanded that their adherents follow stringent rules. It sounded like a faction worth joining, plus, the thread(s) were well organized and pleasing to the eye. So, after fulfilling every requirement to join (I realize that I can still be refused), I arrived at Mactan base, playing out my Role Play idea. I turned to my often read and bookmarked recruitment thread and spent almost an hour trying to make a good impression with my appeal to join. And I waited. I decided to just do some playing around with my character, running missions and the like, but a Dagger can only do so much.
So, I started a new character to spend my time with, I conceived of a character built specifically to follow a storyline that I had in my head. I built a journal to follow his travels through Rheinland that would lead god knows where, but I'd role play the hell out of and enjoy. I had ideas as to what would happen to him, but only vague. I was optimistic. Maybe, I would run into an interesting and active faction and have to prove myself with an interesting mission! Perhaps even just run into a member of a faction that would take the time to talk to me and interest me in their ideals. Nope. Nothing. Granted, I didn't play with this character enough for this to really happen, but since I downloaded the mod (about a month ago), I have played for at least two hours a day (conservative guess to make me sound like less of a looser, heh). All of my time playing has been spread out throughout the day to try to best catch other players so that I could join them. To this day, I have been in a grand total of one group. One. And in that group, only one person (other than me) attempted to RP, and he was a member of Hellfire (part of the reason I went for either LH or HF membership). I'm not saying that you don't have awesome players, I've met a few. The HF I mentioned, one Navy member was fun to play with, and a guy named Dragon's Teeth that helped me learn the game and answered my questions. That was great. But one group?
If I wanted to play with myself, I'd go single player which has the added bonus of zero ping (not a complaint, just a joke to lighten the mood here).
Where is the role play that you advertise? Where are the active factions that maybe go on made up missions where they are trying to steal intel from an enemy base or something? Maybe a real conflict? I might be way off base, and these things may exist, but I've yet to see them. I love the game. Even more, I love the Discovery mod and the ideas that it represents. But those ideals are either sadly missing, or extremely difficult to locate.
Please, help a pilot led astray. I feel like I'm floating alone in my escape hatch with a beautiful world around me that I can only see, but not touch.
