Rorry's Renegades |RR

[Jack_Henderson]

Okay, I promised to read it and write something, so here I go::)

Generally, I like the Renegades for being the only pirate group out there that is organised enough to really pose a threat to anything that is organized also. I realized that flying convoys with more than 4 ships and some escorting/scouting is much more fun if there is at least a potential threat of encountering something that might bite a piece out of your convoy. RR definitely have the potential.

Pirating Operations - Rheinland and the bordering systems (max of 2 systems out of Rheinland.)

Good idea. Regional chars have more flair than those who you find in NY, NT, NL, Dublin, Taus and everywhere... because they have their chars everywhere. Locally fixed chars add to roleplay. Knowing that RR are in Rheinland adds also nice rp opportunities, the links to Rheinland factions get stronger (be it friendship or aggressivity), and you become somehow "a part of the region".

♦ 3 - If a trader/miner shows they can/are willing to Role Play then go with it in detail SO LONG AS: They are not trying to run while getting you to talk, lawful forces are not inbound or possibly so, they are just buying time.

I like your piracy roleplay rules. As I am 95 % of the receiving end of piracy, I could think of one change that would make the piracy rules awesome and would encourage people to roleplay actively with you instead of limiting their rp to gaining an advantage in some way or the other (stalling, calling for help, blahh... all the "I die anyway" strategies that do nothing good at all).

I'd include: "Generally, a trader is pirated for less if he offers roleplay instead of running, calling for help, etc."

I mean... if yo rp your trader as a real person who has a name, story, family, schedule, insurance, etc, he has something to lose in a scene in which you face 2 GBs and an unlawful transport (like IMG|Julia.Morrow, Stork QQ:D). That is a cool scene, actually... if rp is offered and given back.

The scene gets sour for the receiving end, if he feels that all his roleplay was only the foreplay to the same demand. If that demand is high (or felt to be too high, we are in the range of very subjective reasoning) , the receiving end of the rp will walk away with the "meh, great... all that effort for getting screwed anyway. I could have flown 3 lanes in that time after the respawn".

Breaking the cycle I mentioned before would be a good way of actually roleplaying piracy. And making traders also roleplay these situations.

That would be something to perhaps think about. The small sentence: "Thank you for complying, normally we'd demand you 5 million, you walk with three, but don't you think we like you for that, little trader... and now, run, before my patience runs out."

Encouraging rp for the "prey" you need might be possible by what I wrote. If I think "Yeah, I profited from this, I got out alive and even paid a little less" it's like a little "win" in a situation in which generally the trader always only can lose.


I'll not comment much on the SRPs and ships, I just trust in the balancing team to fix the Asco (see respective complaints) and that they really put the scorpion on the same level. I was told by a reliable source that the scorpion hitbox is true to skin and about twice the size now and it was rather easy to hit before... and that they do not dish out Cruiser damage any more. I guess the Scorpion is more or less just another hard to hit turret steer gunboat... that we will have to gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank with a bazillion bombers!:D

Have fun, I like playing against you. Keep that up. Your group are one of the few groups that I can fight against and afterwards there is neither hard feelings nor QQ nor rage. That's my main point why I say: Go for this. Good luck! =)

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