The New Beginning of the BPA

[BaconSoda]

Well, you're right in a sense. The founding principles of the BPA aren't really possible anymore. The founder, Elgatodiablo, really did a great deal in his day to setup an example that the BPA was actually able to kick butt if it needed to (and you can ask Zelot, his Gunboat was destroyed by 4-5 Hussars a few times), but it just chose not to unless pushed. In a playerbase this large, you can't really impress that on everyone like you used to. It's your faction now, and regardless of whatever anyone else says, you make the choices in the end. No matter the chorus, if you think something is wrong, it's your faction and the decisions pertaining its fate are your decisions. You don't have to announce them to anyone.

But I'd just like to say that regardless of whatever choice you make, every aspect of a faction is always determined by its leader. If you want it to prosper, you have to set the example that playing the faction leader is not a chore, but a thoroughly fulfilling and fun experience, and people will, in turn, get online and catch onto your positive energy and spread it to the people around them. I failed to do that, and this is why the BPA and the AFA failed under me. It has very little to do with guns, honestly, but a lot more to do with you and the people you put in charge. At least that's the way I feel about it.

EDIT:

Now, I just have a little something to say right now...
Well, firstly... you claim to be devoted to your faction's roleplay, yet you consistently show that you have some obsession with "purging" the Mollies from Dublin. I don't know if you don't know but I do know that I know and it seems you don't know either way about it all that the BPA never went into Dublin in Vanilla. Why is this? The Mollies were apparently a powerful and troublesome military group... and the BAF handled them because of this. I don't know if you don't know (again) that the BPA was never meant to take on a terrorist group in their fortified home system... that's not really within the police sphere of action, y'know. If you want to clean Mollies up, at least stay true to your supposedly deeply loved roleplay and make a BAF Dublin wing or something along those lines.

Actually this was a decision I made and it was made in compromise with the other Bretonians who wanted the BPA to go to Omega-3 (such a silly notion...). It was surmised that because the BAF were having such a hard time with the KNF, the BPA had to pick up more militaristic duties and "Domesticate" Dublin a little bit more. Though I never promised anyone I could come out to the Battleship Hood or any of the Mining Fields, the little area around Graves and the Independent Mining Field were kind of where we'd go. Roleplay is a living and evolving thing. Though I do fight silliness, not everything makes complete and total sense and it made a little bit of sense to me to take the Rocky Road to Dublin.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.