To the Order|

[Tenacity]

Ok, time for me to throw in my opinion, jesus christ you guys spammed this thread -_-

Back before I joined the keepers, when all I really played was my order character, I was quite often guilty of the gankfest being explained. I would rally any order characters I could find against one or two keepers, and never thought it was unfair. After all, they're the big bad aliens, they deserve to be obliterated, right? Wrong.

Having been in the keepers for a while now, I can say with absolute certainty that there is NOTHING more frustrating than roaming around sirius with a pair of nomad fighters, and suddenly being overwhelmed by a lolcap fleet or zerg swarm composed of nearly every faction you can think of, going "loldai nomadz!"

Now, I fully understand the threat that nomads pose, in-RP. I also understand that nobody likes losing a fight, and will use that fact to do whatever they can to destroy the opponent - even going so far as to outnumber the enemy a dozen to one. It happens nearly every time I get on my keeper characters.

However, that does not make the game fun for our side, and despite the chances of losing a battle - I find it more fun to have a challenging fight and test your skill, rather than to just overwhelm the opponent. Of course, that's just me, and I've changed my ways on my order characters now that I know how the other side feels.

What annoys me most about this is that the guilty party here is using the chat list to find us when they should not be able to. I'm sure the order has it's agents and spies all over sirius, but how exactly is a lone agent on manhattan going to know about a pair of nomads in the badlands, and then how is he going to insantaneously alert the entirety of the order in omicron minor to their presence? That is metagaming/powergaming/whatever you want to call it, and it needs to stop.

Sometimes I wish the chatlist wouldnt show the system the enemy is in, it would prevent a lot of these problems and gankfests from occuring.

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