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[Jihadjoe]

Phantoms
Rant
Okay, first off, way too restricted. They get really awesome-looking ships and you only ever see one or two online if you are lucky. They never use the Umbrage/Huntress for RPing in so one of the coolest looking ships in the game is never seen. I do not have too much to complain about their RP, some of the time it is good, some of the time it is bad, same with all factions. What gets me is that it is a faction that has SOOOO much potential that is not used! I mean, you could make the C’tan then put them up in the top right with the Phantoms being the gatekeepers for them, Restrict the Phantom ID a little, focus them on bringing in cargo to C’tan bases when it is needed for analysis. Stuff like that, and then you could have the C’tan go to war with the houses of Sirius, the houses all pull together, sort of like in the Nomad war, Have them also attack the criminals, fuse the Corsairs and Outcasts, then have the C’tan prevented from killing the criminals and houses then you have the united houses vs. the united criminals, and the crims would be better because of tech sharing and resource pooling, same with the houses.
Summary of my issues with the faction
Too restricted, Joining is impossible, you have to be invited
So much potential there, so much potential not used
Coolest looking ships in the game, not much use of them
Not enough Players
Possible solutions to the problems
Make the faction a bit bigger, allow people to apply sort of like the Nomads, but not like them because that is difficult, maybe have players invited when they RP getting a phantom out of a sticky situation?
Make the phantoms into a bigger faction, Bring on the C’tan like I said in my rant, Make them into the Go-Betweens between the Humans and the C’tan for a while, maybe the C’tan can declare war on the humans then and… well, it’s in the rant
Make the ships more widely available, bring back the Huntress as a Zoner ship again, Have someone raid the Base for the plans to the ships?
Like above, expand the faction both in NPCs and in Players

Have you read the ID? The C'Tan are absent from Sirius, and the Phantoms are tools of theirs. Furthermore opening the faction up for people to join more freely wouldbe a massive mistake. Read the ID then look at the gear. How do you think the majority of this community would go about usng a phantom tagged and ID OC dread for example?

Not enough players... Well, again. Read the ID. Read the backstory, read read read. I will refuse to accept your point of view until you show some actual knowlege of what they are about.

Liberty Navy
Rant
The Liberty Navy, wow, you are supposed to be a NAVY, I do not see the navies of the world handing out their battleships to anyone who rocks up and asks for one… Seriously, moderate the amount of people who can buy a Navy Capship, and fix up your RP, (this is for some of you, not necessarily all), I mean is it good RP to threaten to obliterate a smart mouthed trader? And when the Cartel is pirating is it good RP to leave them alone? And what about the Phantoms? They are supposed to be evil homicidal madmen and you do not even ask them to stop?
Summary of my issues with the faction
Extreme overspam of Liberty capships
Some of the players RP is not so good
They are not much help against pirates
Possible solutions to the problems
Place some restrictions on the use of Liberty capships, Make sure that people have decent RP before they can buy one, and make people apply for all capships, you could make the Liberty capships that are not registered on a Hunt and Destroy list.
Fix up the RP, I mean you are supposed to be protecting the traders not threatening to kill them for making a joke about you
You need to actively respond to all pirates in the Liberty sector, not just say “O’RLY?” When a trader reports 2 LR bombers in the next system and just sit there.

Right, I run the [LN]. Believe me, the endless stream of LABCs I see on a daily basis makes me want to shoot myself. We were operating basically that system of registration. Basically we set up a voluntary registration, whereby the players hada few rewards involved for registering their ships with the official faction. Those who didn't register, didn't get those rewards (help with RP if requested, active backup from the official faction, integration into our way of doing things etc), and if they screwed up, did stupid thing then we blew them up. If those who had registered their ship did stupid thing we'd remove them from the register, ask them to clean up their act, and then if they screwed up again, we'd blow them up.

I got yelled at, I got abuse, I got told to stop by one former admin, despite the fact that for some time it worked and you didn't see the vast and absurd number of carriers and LABC's around that you do now, and the ones you did see actualy roleplayed.

As for responding to pirates. The [LN] does try, just sadly every time we log on we have a que of OVER NINE THOUSAND outcasts, rogues, xenos, lane hackers, order, RM and god knows what else, all queing up at manhattan to take shots at us.

I know it's liberty, but seriously give us a damned break. Raiding every four damned hours isn't cool alright?

Nomads/Wild
Rant
Okay, like the phantoms, a lot of potential, some of this is realized as they have a guard system with some interesting stuff in it, they could be bigger, they are supposed to be dominant in the middle left of the map and they only have like 2 or 3 bases for the nomads. The Wild are also not being brought to their full potential, if they are a defected Rheinland fleet then they should have Rheinland battleships and cruisers (a limited supply). But they have Rheinland fighters and weird looking gunships.
Summary of my issues with the faction
Too exclusive
Way too difficult to do the proper RP to get in
Slightly random when you see them in New York, How do they know the docking codes for the Navy Jump Gate? How do they use the Human technology to travel?
Possible solutions to the problems
Make it a little less overpowered; make it less difficult to get in
There should be a set RP for the nomad juveniles so that people can RP properly and there should be naming restrictions so that they can get noticed by the Keepers and their RP observed and corrected if it is off.
There should be a Jump Hole to Alaska for then the system was discovered, you can’t just find a system by pointing a jump gate and hoping, This JH could be used by the nomads thus meaning that they do not have to use human tech to get into Alaska.

Read. The. Lore.

I'll say nothing else. This is a rant formed in ignorance. You might also want to read the development documents for Liberty as a whole.

Lane Hackers
Rant
Why, Why, Why, Why, Why? Why do these criminals have a battleship? That is even less sensible than the fact that the LR have Cruisers, and if the LH have the resources to make a battleship then why do they have an outcast battleship defending the entrance to their guard system?

Because the guard system is owned by the [HF] Read the [HF] back story to discover they are not lane hackers. They just happen to use a lane hacker tag. Everything about that faction has a history. Until you understand it and know what it's about, then be quiet. Vespucci is -not- the lane hacker guard system It just has lane hacker guard NPC's. It is the Hellfire Legion guard system. Thank you.


I'm not going to respond to your other rants, but those are the ones that stood out at me as being the furthest off the mark.

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