The Colonial Republic - CR|

[Dane Summers]

I'd like to thank everyone for their comments - makes me and my guys feel pretty good.

As for the Squadron Idea - here's my take.

Originally, the hope was, that squadrons would serve as locations, where people would have alt's, to eliminate trvale time. Such as, were doing stuff in Taus, but two guys have ships in Coro, etc - taking several minutes to fly up can be a drain - so this was to fix that somewhat. In prep, I made at least 12 different shared fighters and bombers, for those folks who didn't want to make alts, or couldn't.

Most people now are spread between the Tau and Coro op zones, since weve been the most busy in those two places. The bret squadron has less, because we havent been as busy there, and were waiting for Bretonia to authorise CR ships docking on bret bases.

Im re'evaluating the concept now, and while I still stand by its novelty, only time will tell. But I've taken the suggestions to account.

While I personally agree with this, I have serious doubts about the capabilities of some of your members to play it out properly. Are you willing to fight and die and hold the line even at the cost of giving the enemy a blue message now and then?

I forget who wrote it, but somebody once said something along the lines of, while you're able to roleplay a different personality, a different background, or even stupidity, you can't roleplay intelligence, or skill in the cockpit of a fighter.

I'm not saying you need people capable of leveling half the server, just people who won't care about exploding and won't run circles around a base while pretending to be heroic.

I wont lie, not all of us are great pvp'ers - its my hope through continued activity, that I learn to get pretty good in a nyx - and we certainly have some very skilled opposition (Mercs, for example) - the hardest part is dying, and admitting defeat. Giving folks a blue. Its hard, because sometimes its very easy to take that personally, and to misinterpret the motives of the people shooting you - you lose, your in a low point, and that can turn to anger, or depression. I want my guys to understand that losing means nothing, honestly, but more then that, I want both sides interacting with us - both us, and whoever were fighting - to have fun. And we've had some bumps there. One instance, we had a fair fight going, and two indies jumped in against orders, which then caused two of my guys, late to the engagement, to assume nothing was amiss, and jump in too. But we've also had some really good fights though, like our first gallia raid, where we all got minced pretty good, or the mini-event with LR, where it turned out in a draw. :D

My pledge is, that no matter what may happen, that I wont ever give up trying to hold to the ideals I built this faction for. The biggest was make things fun for both sides. Its a competitive game, but I've always seen it as cooperative story telling. Two sides, both enemies, can cooperate toward great experiences. Thats my goal, and my continued work.

Seems like the entire thing is;
"The colonial Republic got really good... BUT IT FAILED!"
Again and again. You dont think maybe it loses its impact if repeated?

The story of the Colonial Republic is about loss, and not faltering in the wake of it.

"Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight"

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