Battleships- a solution

[n00bl3t]

Noobl3t, there's one thing about my independence that bothers me while reading your comments:
It's my independence, not yours. You are acting like you were the one to represent the thoughts of all the other indies around while all the faction-guys are only looking at our freedom with jealousy. But I'm willing to do the step and make owning my battleship more difficult if it helps to keep the rp-resistant kind in line. Which I'm sure it does as it already worked when I joined Disco last year. And I'm also sure there are more independents out there who do actually think the same way (especially the ones who have been around long enough to know it the other way round).

And concerning that rubbish about bias, elitism and favouritism: Grab a char for the npc-faction you want to buy your battleship from, roleplay it, get known to the people you are going to play together with once you have that big ship, get known to the laws and difficulties of that faction in-game. Once you did that and roleplayed your char well, people will notice you. And more important: you will gain their trust. And if they trust you, you will get your request granted. Guess what has been my first post here ... do I have to add that it got granted?
And for those who really can't rp a single person but a whole amount of persons, I'd say to stay with the suggestion we already had and not restrict the cruisers. They would be the perfect ships for them to prove their rp abilities, no?

(And yes, I think it's obvious that the BCs would need to be included)

In general, to your post, and your overall ignorance, I am tempted to facepalm.

Instead, flip is activated, if I act like I represent all independents, and you feel your independence is weighed down by me, feel free to write up a contract and verify it by the Administration to have your independence and ship choice dictated at a faction's discretion. I will, on the other hand, continue like I always have, with or without my forum role-play, and role-play my capital ships in-game without any approval of my actions by factions, within the server rules and in the general spirit of the game. If however, you come here and you want me to come under your banner of independence, which is not independence at all, and approve my RP with official factions, is that hypocritical of what you just said? Are you not then weighing down on mine and making my decisions for me?

Eh.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.