How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

[Laowai]

In the last couple of months I have been less active in game concerning this stuff. However, I have been watching and listening in all the skype chats im in and paying attention to what has been said on the forums.

I believe this "issue" is indicative of a crucial issue in discovery that is unresolved: How much of the storyline is player driven, and how much is dictated to the players. Is the the storyline a fixed structure that is set, monitored and driven by Igiss and the Dev team, or is it Dynamic and player driven.
Cannon opened a thread not so long ago about this.. and the general consensus from what I could read was that the player base here seems to feel the storyline should be partially player driven.
Im a Corsair player and have been for a few years, as a member of the Corsair council i am privy to the conversations et al.... So, as a player in this area, i know for a fact that for several years now, and i mean years in real life terms, not "sirius" time, Corsair players, TBH, Benitez, Sails... HAF, back to the OPG and indies have been involved in Role Play that was aimed at removing the idea of "starving Corsairs" from the storyline. As such, their take on this right now, is entirely valid, based on their own gameplay - they are correct, they dont need Zoner food supplies from Freeport 9.
There is also, a storyline precedent that does indeed add ammunition to the Corsair players making a claim on Freeport 9, i would also argue this should apply to Freeport 5 as well.
however.

Zoners however and reasonably, do not agree. Much of their argument against the Corsair players here is that - "You are supposed to be starving, and now you are acting this way, we arent giving you food, ergo, this is bad for you" - which the Corsair players are - based on the last couple of years of their slow, methodical Role play - ignoring.



Here is the issue. If the storyline is indeed meant to be player driven, then... unfortunately you all have to reap what you sow. In this context, Corsairs indeed do not need Zoner food, and Zoners have an issue right now.

This situation is being watched by the admin team - we are listening and heeding arguments from all sides - and this is not just limited to the shenanigans in the Omicrons, but also across the board. If the community consensus is that the storyline needs to be player driven. Then you all need to think about how you wish to go about that, because this current issue stems from exactly this: a player driven storyline.

The limits to which this will be allowed are still not determined and are undecided. As such, i say as a player and an admin - in this Grey area time it is a very good opportunity to prove that players can develop storyline and not have it degenerate into petty school yard bickering. This does not mean the end decision in this player driven/non player driven storyline will be decided by these actions - But if players can prove that they can responsibly and reasonably work through their storyline issues without chaos ensuing then it would lend very good support to the "player driven storyline cause".

Personally, the bickering on this issue and threads such as this one, are not lending a lot of support to that cause.

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