' Wrote:Megiddo and Apotheosis, everything you said is interesting but here comes the question for the community: "If you are so interested to become a nomad why dont you join the official faction which is not hard?"
THe Khara lore is some of the richest and most vivid on the server - but if I'm looking to create good encounters for other players (my motive behind flying nomad trial) then I don't need a full K'hara setup.
I am looking for a way to add the extra alien aspect to the server without having to prove my, or any other players rp value.
I'm 37, and have been in and out of different rp clubs for 30 years, and: I'm sure this is actually a pretty common sentiment: I wont join a faction where there is a recruitment process, as I find it a direct intrusion upon my rp experience to follow an rp beuaracracy.
This is freelancer - not strings-attached-lancer (understanding and sticking to lore is another thing entirely -- I will do this to the best of my ability).
To put this is context: If I'm rolling barbarian in AD&D I'll stay true to Barbarian, but please don't expect me to sign up to the Barbarian union, and sign up for the barbarian newsletter.
If I'm gonna fly alien, then I fly alien cos I am alien.
So....
I have a nomad trial and it suits fine.. some of my best rp experiences have been in my little lf.
My desires are the same for every other player playing with a ship type:
I want more of my kind in the sky. I want more firepower to take on bigger targets.
I wish I had the opportunity to attack without provocation, for the sake of rp, rather than against it... wading into fistfights as I see fit.
Don't get me wrong: I am by no means a pew pewer, and consider myself highly motivated on the rp side.
Here's the thing:
Nomads don't need an extensive RP background or motive, except to (and of course this is not a trivial thing:) en-richen the playing experience of those that play them.
They are already defined as sirius-wide enemies. From an RP-context very few factions would need a seconds hesitation before blowing a nad from the sky, whatever their motives or aspirations.
So from an RP perspective, nomad belligerence and aggression is already very well defined and explained. No further intro required.
I play my nomad as a powercrazed little shrimp looking for outcast minds to bend - and then sending them into the fray at my bidding. I don't need a faction with a million years of alien philosophy or lore to do that further.
I would like there to be more encounters like that: I want to meet nomads while I'm trading, while I'm mining... I want to be rescued by order and have to run in convoys cos we are passing through alien space.
On this small server the only way to do that is make Nomad the default player ship for pew-hungry players. Its that simple.
On a side note, I think theres been a general assumption that reducing the dialog capabilities of the player is a reduction of rp, and that (we who are arguing for an opening up) are motivated because we simply want to have pew pew on the server: I don't agree with either notion.
We must simply accept that there are many types of roleplay on the server - many player philosophies, and many ways of playing..
A lot of players will fulfill the bare minimum of rp requirements, cos frankly they are not interested in the richer type of playing.. this leads to frustrating encounters all over the place currently
I argue that we cannot stop this behavior, but that we should consider channeling it into the one role where it actually makes sense.
Nomad has been limited to a rp-centric defend-only role, when it is inherently the most belligerent type of role on the server, and should be the most combat prone.
Nomad is in the hands of a few dozen players, which has limited its impact server wide. With full respect to those players that are driving K'hara, and the Wilde, this is a bit of shame.
I sincerely wish them the best of luck and I hope this changes.
Not sure if this helps or leads to further argument, but thanks for your replies so far. Obviously this is an interesting topic for lots of people.
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