Couple of questions...

[Craines]

Of course, F Wolf has forgotten that the idea of multiple lawful players to the number of unlawful players varies in the place to which you are currently at. For example, the amount of Blood Dragons (players) to the amount of Kusari Naval Forces (players) is often skewed in favor of the Blood Dragons. What F Wolf has also forgotten is that pirating should very rarely occur in the core systems of a House Faction - a Kusari Naval Forces pilot will often not pursue a pirate in Sigma 13 or 17, despite both systems being connected to Honshu. Why? Because we do not technically have jurisdiction there, and therefore, lest we incur the wrath of the Gas Miners Guild, stay well away.

Further, Shikoku is a rarely patrolled area because of the large Bounty Hunter influence. The same goes for that one place way up north... it is connected to Chugoku, but I can't seem to remember the name of it. Oh well. You know what I'm talking about! The fact I can't remember it seems to indicate that I've been there only once before (it's not that interesting. If only the Chugoku jump gate was finished... hehehe) and that means I don't go there often. Pirates can often escape from the KNF there. And no, before someone attempts to say that I'm making the KNF seem perfect, I'm not - it's just that I only have experience with the KNF and our patrol patterns, and therefore, can only draw upon that experience for examples. I'm sure similar tales can be heard from the other House Governments.

I have only one problem with F Wolf's post, however, and that is the fact that he fails to make a clear division between pirates and unlawful factions in general. There are three unlawful sub-nomenclatures that are important to recognize. There is the pirate, perhaps the most common of the non-clanned players. There is the terrorist, which is a multi-faceted unlawful status (a terrorist can be a freedom fighter, a vigilante against a foreign enemy, or, in the case of Xenos, xenophobic fighters.). And finally, there is the Unlawful Mercenary that is epitomized by the Hellfire Legion.

The best part about Discovery, and Freelancer in general, is that there aren't defined sides. There isn't a good side and a bad side. That is what some humans want, especially in real life. Humans, in general, wish to know where an attack might come from and prepare. The fact that criminals in the game are against one another, just as Bretonia is against Kusari (lawful v. lawful), means that there is a great array enemies for any particular person. It makes the game more dynamic. While F Wolf, who I feel neither gratitude nor hatred for (ergo, no, I'm not flaming him, I'm simply addressing the comments made in his post), seems to not like the idea of vendettas, it must be acknowledged that there will be these vendettas. People won't like people for the strangest of reasons. Does that change the matter? No.

However, I feel I have strayed from the original reason for this thread, and I am sorry. I simply am deconstructing the post by my college F Wolf because I do not believe it exemplifies the aspects of Discovery that I enjoy. I hope everyone who reads this, F Wolf in particular, understands that I am not attempting to attack F Wolf, but am simply applying logic and argument to his reply. If that is out of line, I apologize. Thank you for your time,

Harlequinn

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