Quote:Well, this looks like a standard enounter, doesn't it? Some short questions to find out whether potential targets can be attacked, or not.
Ignoring the sarcastic tone, that's not the case. We do not ask people questions with the sole purpose of finding out if we can kill them. Sometimes we do, it's called being suspicious. In your case we had all the reasons to be suspicious. Potential pirate and a Zoner-affiliated pilot.
Quote:Concering the roleplay: The SCRA hates Zoners. Nothing new, and it's refreshing to see it not happen on some generic chars. The question is, why would it not hate pirates? So if it doesn't hate pirates, why were the present SCRA sure they would deal with the kind of Zoners they usually hate. I daresay there aren't many Zoner IFFed pirates, but if the SCRA is hating Zoners and pirates, why bother with a conversation then - a kind of pseudo-alibi for the lolgank?
The SCRA dislikes Pirates heavily, but we can't assume you are pirates just because you carry Pirate ID. That's called metagaming. We have to actually see you commit an act of piracy to be labelled as pirates. But, we are certain that you are Zoners due to your IFF, and that is all we need to know that you are connected to them one way or another. We have clear orders, shoot all Zoners who are not marked with specific tags in their names. You can figure out for yourself who those tags are.
Quote:In addition the usual swarming around targets has started before two sentences were spoken, actually the proof the outcome of this encounter was already clear, despite the fact that you haven't ever ecnountered Zoners who are hating Zoners (or those Zoners who are prominent in Sirius).
It's good to trap a target before he has even opened his mouth. Just to ensure you can't run should the encounter prove to be hostile.
Quote:If you do not like interaction - in a positive case the Baxters might finally learn what the SCRA is, but even more important, the SCRA might learn some things about the unformed, poor, and unverprivileged side of the Zoners, not flying around in fancy Juggies or polished Whales - why do you believe you would be playing roles? Is your understanding of roleplay exhausted beyond the colors of your reputation sheets?
You assume things, how do you know if we do not like interaction? Why else would we even approach you? It's simple really. You are connected to the Zoners via your IFF, which justifies our attack based on background history that has given us the permission to engage any and all Zoner-affiliates if they aren't marked with specific tags in their name.
Quote:Also, six SCRA VHFs against three Rocs is great sports, "Gentlemen". Not getting two of them even greater. I'd have preferred to see you proceed to Tau-23 where you've found your new grankgrounds, instead of disturbing and destroying roleplay we're launching only once every three months, and I'm talking here of roleplay, not the crap you've performed here. If you really want to improve anything start with interaction. There are pretty many Disco Servers around where you don't have to bother with letting your characters talk.
Here we go again with the: "If you don't provide a novel you are not Role-Playing" argument. Frankly won't even bother arguing that point. You can have your opinion if you want, I don't really care about it. Ganking is subjective, to us 6vs3 is not considered ganking. (For the record, we split into three wings, so at most, you each had two on your six)
Quote:To sum it up:
- You're whining because you potentially could not dock in Baffin anymore, since one of your players hasn't taken into account that Zoners might deny docking rights to a shared faction vessel causing trouble at FP9
- The said player tries some nice RP by visiting 74 and USING interaction, just to ask me a few minutes later if we can forget the RP scene, in a way that it never happened.
- Then I had to see your definition of standard roleplay tonight
Now you are bringing up Omicroners Role-Play into this? Oh what a surprise, here I thought it had only to do with your character called the Baxters. That might explain all the sarcastic comments I had to go through to reach this quote. Well let me remind you, just like the Corsairs hate, just like the Bretonian dislike you, just like the Outcasts dislike you, and just like we hate you. It's your actions which has given rise to certain consequences. There is nobody to blame here but the Omicroners. Your decisions. And this is what the result is.
And now if we are going to play the chat-log game. What a nice show of "Role-Play" you are expressing here:
[09.01.2011 22:56:15] Nihil.Baxter: *laughs hard*
[09.01.2011 22:56:40] Nihil.Baxter: you can't shoot down a zoner in a 3v1 *laughs*
[09.01.2011 22:56:54] Nihil.Baxter: You're pathetic trigger happy fools
[09.01.2011 22:57:24] Nihil.Baxter: *laughs* I won't forgot your fail either
[09.01.2011 22:58:05] Nihil.Baxter: " I r hate zoners" *laughs*
I see plenty of lame OOC references here, but that's fine, this is Role-Play and we are not of course Role-Playing because you got shot at.