One little question

[Jinx]

@global:

we re dealing with humans there - not bots.

it is a precious balance. - a keeper attack against a station that is not defended and majorly ignored is pointless . - about as much a RP impact as a falling tree in the woods when no one is around to hear it. - the other side of the coin is to make it a public event. - and the "problem" with public events is that they are public.

discovery is a public server - if we cannot deal with the public in most cases - we re wrong here. - as i said - for KEY events, i d expect a controlled enviroment ( like it was done for the corsairs and the rheinland military ) - but for public and "common" ambushes - both sides have to deal with whats there.

when you sit at FP11 - and there the 6th battleship poppping out - you cannot just start to shout at the player. - this is a HUMAN controlling the ship - and forcing them to leave is patronizing and utterly unfair. - all we can do is to rely on our popularity and / or faction tags.

surprisingly many players "listen" to guidence.

today - all the time i was around - we managed to hold the zoners back to a defensinve stance for over an hour. - that is keeping a fleet of zoner ships that can easily wipe out the incursion back - condemned to boredom, while other factions like the order or the BHG ( or the corsairs ) can have a go - if they like.

it does not feel too good when you have a player with a ship there who really wants to RP - and you have to tell him "no, you are defending, you should please not move to iota and wipe them out" at that time, you re not giving some AI order to a bot, you are asking a player. - and so it is understandable that a player might or might not just snap - or simply decide that its "reasonable to go hunting now".

not every player is content sitting at a freeport - waiting for the attack to happen - or not to happen. many players don t have much online time either - and the little time they have - they wanne spend in a way excitingly. - and for such players, its not really the best idea to have someone telling them that they "must not move out and chase an enemy that they might have enough reason to kill".



i do very much understand players that wish to chase the keepers - as much as i can understand the frustration of the attacking force. - the keepers do one attack and inflict damage in RP - and the whole zone is swarming for days.

it is up to every player that has the authority to "guide" his fellows if he cares. - the overwhelmed force is always kinda pissed. - on disco, you will never get a really balanced battle... .

keepers did what they could today ( while i was around ) - they talked and hid - and bided their time. that is the privilege of the attacker. - there have also been occasions when it wasn t so popular to defend fp11 - and there were more keepers than defenders. - in which case the defenders either played along ... or simply docked.

again - we cannot control everything as long as its public - and it would be unfair to tell people off for it. everyone is meant to roleplay on their own personal basis. - players are meant to RP their reason to be there and their motivations to defend or do other stuff in delta - and that is all we can ask them to do.

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