F_Wolf, you don't need to delete you AW character, and we do not tell you what to do with your other characters other than to not use them as if they were AW which you haven't done, so thats okay. They thought you were an AW because the post was moved to AW MSG because Kane or Korrd didn't have enough facts to know what character it was. In reality it was everyone's fault, and no one's fault. It was all due to a misunderstanding that people jumped on.
Yes, the Planetary Defense Shield is power-playing, but was done in response to power-playing being made by alot of people. Some of this IS directed at Phantoms for repeated bombardments of planets. They should have known this would happen when they blow up Leeds 3 times and Cambridge twice.. But most was because of random pirates coming in and powerplaying that they can blow up everything (OMGZRS! I can kill NPC BSs in a RH Bomber as a Corsair! I'm UberPAWN, boomy!) which made the SF and SA put defense shields up. I don't get mad at the Cambridge Defense Shield. The way I see it, now to get the shield down, which only occurs at where you focus fire, it takes an entire BS firing on it to lower a section of shields, then a nearby cruiser to make strategic attacks on targets. But SA putting one on Cali because HF and AW went to war with them was powerplaying without an excuse, and should not have been done. QV got flamed for doing an RP that he started a month and a half before he used, yet no one complained till he actually used the thing, which really wasn't that bad.
Tannik is correct. Bombardments shouldn't be able to be accomplished by anything less than a full militaristic force that is assembled for warfare. This would include the factions with battleships. Such as AW who have Zoner Juggernaut, GoR with the Outcast Dread, Bs| with Osiris, RM, SF, and SA for their obvious BS-class ships, and HF with the Spyglass. Just because a Player faction has a BS shouldn't mean they can bombard. They should be a militaristic organization that is aligned with an NPC faction that has their own BS, that the PF uses. The reason for the Camb shield is because there were pirates with BSs showing up and just randomly bombarding planets, such as the idiot who had Order guns on a Nomad BS who flew into Camb with some random tag and ID.
Also, people need to research the factions they join to determine what kind of acts would be appropriate. The Lane Hackers don't kill innocent civilians except for transport pilots and crews if they refuse to give them the cargo they demand. So bombarding wouldn't be done by an LH except against military targets, such as HF destroying military equipment manufacturing plants, training centers, and military bases.
You all need to stop jumping on each other over things. If something seems like it would not have been done such as an AW killing a million civilians, than question the person publicly or privately about it. It might be a misunderstanding. I'm not saying I'm perfect at this, but I realize that its happening and I don't wish it to continue either.
And just for the record.. There is only one AW who can get away with mass genocide, and thats me as Luciaden.
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