Making Rheinland more attractive

[Malexa]

Ok, I haven't read everyone's posts yet but I would recommend you restart the Rheinland Bounty Board to attract BHG/FLs/Mercs to Rheinland. I've checked the bounty board index and niether the [RM] nor the RFP have a bounty board (anymore).

It recently got relaunched: Reworked and new contracts will be added soon

There was a heap of role-play done between me and Gronath to establish this in the first place. And then the new leadership in the lawful Rheinland authorities simply stopped it - despite the fact that it did bring more players to Rheinland. The real question is why? Often decisions are made and people are told they can't do x, y and z for no real reason other than because a lawful faction has authority and wants to order people around. The old RM could afford to be a little strong when it came to imposing law and order, but that was in 4.84. Continue to try to be erveything to everybody in this version and Rheinland will choke.
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As stated above, I reopened the bounty board.
The reason why it stopped was, that Gronath went inactive and nobody was looking after it anymore.
When Rob stepped back I had to revitalize the membership, then the ranks. Reorganize a few things and what was maybe the important part, get used to lead such a big faction.

Also an annoying thing was a big problem. The Cash.
The Armory was bone dry for some time and I tried hard to trade it up a bit. I failed due to my time. Beeing online in the faction, trade, do the forum parts and still have work and RL to do.
Luckily we have lots of dedicated members who donated lots of cash.
A big thanks to Ventana at this point. Most donated things belog to him.

Now having a solid cashcount on it gives me the ability to reopen the Bounty Board.

Hunting the Mandalorians was just the first step. Adding a few embargo runners and smugglers may happen the upcoming weeks.

I erased the unlawfull faction hunting for now, because there are hardly any on.
They have to deal with nearly no traders and lots of RM around.
Adding hunters to look for them too would be way too much at the moment.
If the unlawfulls can provide an active presence in other timezones, then I will gladly reopen the normal bounties on Rheinland unlawfulls again.

The RM has always been an issue for me. I wanted to set up a special RP type of thing in Rheinland, but the RM shot it down, wanted nothing to do with it.

I am sorry to hear that and I dont know if I refused it or when it happened before my leading time.
Regardless of when it was, special roleplay is as the name already states, special.
Just coming up with a story, even if its well thought out, is not enough. It still can crash and get denied.
Requesting something does not mean to get it straight away.

It is also nothing personal.
Zapp can come up with a verry good story, if it does interfere with the Rheinland RP and wont fit due to certain things, it will get denied.
We respect other peoples roleplay and it is wanted to have different types and ways of it on the server and especialy in Rheinland.
But you also have to think on the roleplay of others or even of the whole rolplay from a house.
It can easily happen, that requested things wont fit in due to not making sense.

The best example is stealing a ship. Easy to say. But if you look close at it, there are so many things to consider. Smashing in a window wont work.

Also I am glad if people ask me if they want to do some special RP stuff, which will most likely meet the RM at some point.
And also not only me. There are plenty of [RM] members or even unlawfulls like the [RHA], who can provide you with enough hints and background so your story fits in.

Malexa

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