Open up the nomads. Give them to the pew pew crowd.

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Okay, I've stayed out of this, because (as one of the guys in our skype said) it's not fun when Uncle Carl gets involved.

My goodness, setting up for quite the vitriolic opinion piece.
Shame if it goes there - it was a good open discussion up until now.

I can tell this is important to you, and you consider your voice important, so I'll attempt to reply to you directly and concisely. I see Darkknight has also answered, but I hope by answering you I can also address his comments.

First off ...
I'm 50 years old, and have been playing role playing games longer than you've been alive.
(E-Peen victory, Agmen!)

We all bring different levels of experience and expectations, was my point... Viva lè difference.

Stating that you're sure something is a common sentiment is a good way to open yourself up to ridicule, because what you've just done is point out that you're smarter and better able to role play than any of the rest of us here.

I see enough people agreeing with me to be pretty certain that I'm not alone, nor entirely mad.
I don't pretend to be better or more experienced - if anything my posts go to great pains describing my limited experience in discovery, and as such I'm trying to provide parallel examples from elsewhere. I used my age and disposition towards rp simply as a counter to those many many comments that suggested that my ideas were motivated by a desire to pew, rather than to enrichen the rp experience.

We can surely both agree that ridicule is out of place, regardless of what's posted, and by whom.

I will admit that I'm making an assumption here - that you consider role playing games to be different from FPS or TPS games. Otherwise, if you consider playing as Master Chief to be a role-playing computer game, then you have no room to make any comments whatsoever.

. I've stated my rp intentions. Check my post history if you're not convinced, I won't try to defend myself further on this point: This sort of thing just comes across as ridicule, which I believe, as stated above, entirely unnecessary

Role-playing means that there are common rules. The players don't always get to set up the rules, do they? I can just about imagine you sitting down with a D&D group and saying something to the effect of, 'I don't care about how you've set things up here, I shall play a level 42 vampire paladin because to do otherwise is a direct intrusion upon my rp experience.'

As I stated previously, I fully respect the need for lore, and for guidance / rules on the greater issues.
Thats how the rest of the server, the rest of the factions, and rest of the player-groups work.

I disagree with micro-management on player behavior (how you talk, where you go, what you think), and I am firmly against locking in a major game-play variant for the convoluted and elitist notions of a few individuals.
Nomad mostly comes across like that - sorry.

The original intention was obviously to maintain a gold-standard for the most belligerent rp choice - and I'm all for that. RP'ing belligerence requires increased sensitivity.

That goal is lost in the burdensome requirements that maintain the elitist sense of self-accomplishment however.

I know this statement comes across as criticism, and I'm sorry for that.
As I said, I deeply respect the fiction and form created for nomads, but I feel it is simply too overbearing as a restriction on an entire mode of play.

K'hara is a perfectly fine standard bearer for Nomads.
It should not be all there is.

Saying something like that sounds awfully cocky and arrogant, wouldn't you say? Now look at your comments from our perspective. You've just said effectively that. You're better than we are, and you don't care to follow our rules because you find them intrusive. You want a terrorist ID - which enables to you pew anyone, anywhere, anytime - without actually being responsible to learning how such an ID is given. (Which, by the way, is why the admin team won't allow the nomads to be an open faction - they'd sooner completely eliminate the group than allow free roaming terrorist ID's here.)

I can see you see this. All I can say is that I'm extremely arrogant in my own opinion, as we all are.
It takes a certain amount of arrogance to come to this forum and speak your mind, knowing that in some ways you're going to reap a whirlwind of counter opinion.

I feel however, that my cocky arrogant opinion, as you describe it, is simply an observation on current limitations. I'm not alone in thinking this, but primarily the only opponents to my view, on this forum, so far are the guys with the greatest stakes in Nomad elitism.

I consider lock in of the nomads to be a critical mistake. thats all.
Call me arrogant for it if you will.

Oh, and your premise is incorrect. The K|Hara and/or Nomads are not struggling. A struggling faction is one that has a tough time making the 30 hour minimum and 5 player minimum. That is not the case for the K|Hara. The only struggle I see is that you don't want to play by our rules here, and quite frankly, we ain't buying it. You may be the worlds best role-player. (I doubt it - that's on a t-shirt that I wear. :)) But you either follow our rules here and work with us - or STFU and GTFO.

No.

K'hara is nearly invisible. I don't care if it struggles or not. I care that the server misses a crucial part of its rich background cos not enough alien encounters occur.

Not five minutes ago I sat in my nommie lf in Outcast space and watched 2 other nommies discuss what was the quickest way to get a nommie battleship. They are both applicants for K'hara.

You think the current system works? You have 1/10th of the nomad population you need, but you still have the capwhores.

Critically:
K'hara is not fulfilling the main requirement of bringing richer alien encounters to the server. "Epicness" sits with K'hara, and K'hara is not delivering it.

There I said it.

Lastly:

I will not STFU or GTFO. My opinion here is valid. I respectfully disagree with yours, and won't fly K'hara for that reason.
I will continue to fly around in my little nommie lf and think of fun things for other players to mess around with.

Lastly: I found your post to be hostile in intent, and I regret it deeply.
You may be 50 sir, but I advise that you gain a little forum maturity: You came here with your sleeves rolled up looking for a showdown.

I'm happy to talk with you, but this sort of thing is beneath both of us, and not germane to the discussion.

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