Admin Notice: Ship purchase restrictions

[Athenian]

Changes are aimed at the average player. This meant that the ability to purchase ships would not be allowed in game. Certainly, it needs tweaking but instead of reasoned debate and measured responses with alternatives suggested, we get ...this. It's bloody depressing. I'm pretty appalled at the reactions here. Kind of reminiscent of a lynch mob.

Not one of you suggested a different way to approach it. How exactly did this make things supremely harder for white cell combinations? Could anyone give me a concrete example of how this would make life any more difficult for them right now apart from some hypothetical scenario someone dreams up?

So we can expect more generic ID'd people in Tridentes and more "you can't fly that" and more trawling through the forums to find sub-forum a, paragraph b. Many generic ID'd players will still get harassed in game in the most unimaginative way possible and face sanctions for doing nothing other than what the game allows them, and that is the problem. As for leaving non-approved white cells to a roleplay response - well, no. Why should we devote time giving credibility to the lamest of lame justifications for having something - the "I stole it" story? Why should we have to harass players who feel they've done nothing wrong by causing them such annoyance?

I was going to rant some more, but I have just had a mild stroke.

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Former member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
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