Any lawful's left in Disco?

[Dab]

The part I don't understand.... what's so bad about docking and re-arming?

Because in reality, it would normally take a battleship days or weeks to be repaired. Attacking a bunch of pirates, who can't use a ship larger than a Gunboat mind you, with a battleship, then docking when you get hurt only to repair in 15 seconds and engage them again.. Pretty much ruins everyone else's gameplay.

There was a time when Discovery didn't even have a kill or fleeing rule. If you died you could respawn and get right back into the fight..

One example; 3 AW vs 7 SF/TC (This was ~3 years ago). Back then, if you died you could respawn and come right back.. Well, SF/TC attack AW at FP10. Ignoring the fact that Bretonian Armed Forces ships were docking on a Zoner Freeport in Tau-37 (RP was lax then, must strictor now), the fight between 10 people lasted 3 hours. Why? Because everyone who died just came right back to the fight thirty seconds later from the Freeport.

Combat doesn't end until one side's players basically give up or get bored and leave. Unlike EVE, when your ship gets blown up here, it isn't gone for good. EVE can allow players to dock and repair and come right back.. Because if they DO get killed that ship is gone for good. A lot different on this game. Don't try to use EVE as an example of things to do here, it doesn't work. I know, I played EVE. The two games, though both space sims, are vastly different from one another.

This is why the 'when you are killed, you can't attack the person who killed you or reenter the system for four hours'. Because if that rule didn't exist, a battle would never end.




On the main topic; Yes, there are lawfuls. Plenty of lawfuls. Liberty had a fair amount on last night as I was sitting around at Bethlehem for two hours. Bretonia had about ten people come on to fight off a Corsair invasion. In Bretonia the lawfuls outnumber the unlawfuls. Kusari is about even. Rheinland is kind of dead right now, but usually it's about equal, maybe a few more pirates than lawfuls. Liberty is just a bad house, and Liberty is what most people try to base server population on.. Just because there are more pirates than lawfuls in Liberty does not mean that is true in the other three houses.

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