Phantom Empire Faction Feedback

[Zapp]

My first impression of phantoms? Well... he came there in a fight where i already was pretty ganked, metagamed my LSF ID on civilian ship with civilian equipment and freelancer IFF and shot me with having setup of maximum pvp advantage.
Not likely i enjoyed this first meet because of ridiculous amount of fail. Even novice players ain't that bad.

Kudos.

"Depending on the opinion of the player, this may or may not be considered metagaming. You chose the LSF ID to be recognized as a member of the LSF. But alas, forum politics."

Is what was said in the Phantom HC chat, and which I stand behind as the Phantom in question. I'll address the "ganking"... I called everything else off you and gave you a one-on-one shot. Told the cruiser to stop shooting, Joker sided with me and did that as well. You're the one who brought in another [LN], leading the Joker Thug to jump in as well. We started the fight with full nanobots, both. If you really want to be an undercover LSF agent, the best way would be to go with a Freelancer ID too. It was a rush, snap decision (combat going on, I saw the ID and didn't even bother at looking at your guns or anything else), so I pounced. I was there to talk to the Joker, not pour a paragraph of RP into a ship that was fighting. And a ship that had just blown up a ship that was on "my side" (supposedly, didn't see who you killed).

But all of that aside, I don't see a need to justify myself. My goal was getting to the Joker with no hostiles around, you were obviously impeding that goal. You could've had a Freelancer ID, I would have still jumped into the fight and blown you up.

Gentlemen, I wish totell you all that despite allthe whining you get from people, at the very least this person recognizes that you all fill a very important role in Sirian lore. Your faction hate been an excellent story driver for me in the Virulian Enclave and any time I have come across any of y'all in space, it has caused me to work at overload just to try to stay alive.

I honestly look forward to any and all encounters with the Phantoms as it realt does provide the refiners fire for some of my RP.

Keep up the good work!

Thank you, it's good to get some positive feedback with the negative as well.

When I met a Phantom for a first time, he told me he has a grudge on me. He told me the fight I was in was unfair and started shooting. The unfairness was a lie, as we started the fight 5 on 2 (me being one of two) and managed to down numbers to one, but my college lost all except one gun... And that last enemy ran and dodged when I tried shooting him.
So that is totally unacceptable RP. Totally because:
1. Only 2 lines of RP.
2. Lie that it was unfair.
3. Stupid reason ("grudge") to shoot.
The exact member I encountered was named Bake or Bane.
I wish such behavour would be fixed and would not be repeated.

1. If combat is taking place, don't expect people to pour paragraphs of RP in before jumping in.
2. Likely, he didn't know how the fight started out and was acting with incorrect information (all he could know was what he saw, esp. if the kill messages were all "killed by whatever error" for mine kills.
3. That would depend on the character. Maybe Bane has a grudge on all of the people in your faction?

If you can provide evidence of the encounter and provide specific proof of misconduct, action would be considered.

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