Phantom Empire Faction Feedback

[Janus]

This post is partly an apology to Ze'ev and Platinum, who just killed me in O3, and partly feedback, I hope.

I had an unsatisfactory encounter with Pitchfork sometime ago, no fault of his, and since then have been wanting to meet Phantoms again.

When I heard there were 3 in O3, I logged onto my closest char and headed off to find them. Slap on the wrist for me for metagaming.

Now, to make this worse, I not only did it with a character whose roleplay I'm still feeling my way into, I did it fully prepared and expecting to die. Trying to run at the end wouldn't have helped, I'm fully aware how lacking my PVP skills are, but by rights I should have tried at least.

All that said, WHY would I deliberately seek out 3 Phantoms (One left while I was enroute)

Well, that brings me back to the unsatisfactory encounter with Pitchfork. There's a lot of complaining about Phantoms being PVP whores. Having talked to Baconsoda a couple of times since that initial encounter, I didn't personally hold that view, but I wanted, if you like, to get a second opinion.

All three I've met so far have had discernably different personalities and the two I met today gave me ample opportunity to save myself. Platinum's final words, as I recall, were something like "Pity, I kind of liked you."

Before I ramble on too far, let me close this up.

1) Had I had that encounter whilst actually trying to get somewhere, I'd have been more than happy with it.

2) If my unresponsive death spoiled if for you guys, my apologies.

Oh, and "I've got some civilian pilots, those are like food rations right?" - Kudos for that line, whichever one of you it was.