To: The Zoner Alliance

[Zelot]

I believe the issue was that you roleplayed for the Bowex players, hence words like 'powergaming' being used. The bar manager, for instance, was roleplayed as resisting arrest. That isn't your character to play with. You could have the sheriff try to arrest him, but his response would not be yours to make. That was jammi's 'no chance for interaction'.

For instance, if I was playing the character, I may have simply apologised to the coppers, and shut the place, then contact Colony News Service and sell the story. I'd then park my liner-cum-nightclub nearby with big Bretonian flags on. Instead, the opportunity for that interaction was removed, because the other player, who doesn't own the character, had him resist arrest.

Lessons in roleplaying.:P

Thats one part of it, don't put RP someone else's character without their prior approval.



The second part, and one that is a bit more concerning to me, is this is just another thing that is being taken over by player factions. It seems now days you cant RP anything in our universe without having to go around and get people's approval first. First is was ships, then guns, the Indies have to take orders from the factions, now someone, it seems, cannot even create a non-canon RP story (basically what a watering hole is) without the approval of a player faction. I think it has all gone too far.

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