The reason for my going indy.

[Markus_Janus]

Ok so I have decided to delete all my faction characters and go the way of the much hated Indy.
The reason for this change is of course to keep any semblance of sanity I have left and go back to enjoying the game of freelancer.
Why have I made this decision you may or may not ask?
Well this is not just a mindless rant but something I feel needs to be discussed.
Lately I have joined a few factions, either ones I wanted to RP as or ones that I feel had a good idea and could benefit from another member to help with their activity.
After I joined my second faction I noticed something that alarmed me, something that was only confirmed as I joined each other faction.
Their are a couple of people that have gotten themselves in the high command of multiple factions, now their is nothing wrong with this is there?
Well no except when they start mixing the RP of their characters which is something I have seen far to often.
I have seen smugglers escorted through Bretonia because they were destined for someones other characters base.
Not only that but the character actually guides his other characters clan mates how to act to ensure the safe trip.
I have seen a Zoner character immune to pirating due to his having another character that is part of another faction.
I have seen a member insinuate that he will get his way with a corporate faction because he is a member that is in a command position of a navy on both sides of them
I have even seen a certain member describe how people shouldn't mess with him as he is a command member of atleast 4 large factions and is in a admin only faction.
The worst part of all of this is that these are senior members teaching the newer players that this is the correct way to metagame.

Now don't get me wrong here, if this is the way you wish to play then that is fine, it just does not sit right with me.
I must be wrong here because my twisted morals made me think of another way to play.
As a pirate I have pirated Kishiro| transports just like all others that have come across my path, it just seemed like the right thing to do as my pirate did not know the transport, but I see this is not something shared by alot of the people that I look upto to show me how to correctly RP and are more than happy to enforce what they call the correct RP on everybody else.
So all I can do to remain happy is to leave them to it.
Have fun with your 3 or 4 factions everybody as long as they work together then I guess everthing will be sweet.
Perhaps there is a way to fix this, perhaps not.
All I know is that I want to enjoy my playing experiences and would be much happier if I did not know this was happening.
Sure I can guess at conspricy theories but if I do not know for sure then my sanity will prevail.
So as said before I am going the way of the much hated and complained about, and much happier indy.
I will of corse still RP as much as I have been but will no doubt be told that it is not up to scratch as I can not be controlled by someone elses holy decisions.

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Samura Omotai Zaibatsu.