Once again - Kusari

[Lucend]

I think what Kusari really needs is a strong RPed Kishiro faction, to oppose the Hogosha/Samura power base in a lawful manner and force the KSP/KNF to distance themselves more from the quasi-lawfuls.

Kusari RP is not "complex" in the sense of hard to understand, but it is "complex" in the sense that the relationships between the different factions are interconnected and depend on each other. The flaw here is that Kishiro is really the missing link in the chain - without a well RPed Kishiro faction there is nothing to prevent the KNF, KSP, Samura, Hogosha and FA from coalescing into one vague blob with aligned goals and near open alliance.

This. ZOMG this.

Don't get me wrong, I like our GMG counter. But they aren't in the main Kusari core worlds. And the AFA almost never goes to Honshu, I don't think I've even been to Okinawa yet on my AFA.

Now, there are Kishiro out there, and the times I have roleplayed with them it's always a very tense relationship. Kishiro is, unfortunately very alone in the core worlds and I think that adds to it. But, then again, Samura isn't that strong player-wise.

Also, the only way the 'circle's' alliance is open is when we are fighting, which is where most of our enemies see us. The day to day encounters are rather interesting though, just like that indy FA who got caught pirating. But unfortunately, the only way some in this thread see us is when they're on their outcast or QCP or whatever decides to pop their head in, and everyone rallies to repel invaders.

I implore you to check us out when we're not on high alert, when we're just floating in space above New Tokyo or whatever.

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"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."

Osaika Moto, the Fall and Rise of a Kusari Farmer

Juan Lucendez, √ Corsair