The "job" of the military

[Wolfspirit]

This was the question:

Yet, how can we express our support so everyone is happy and they feel supported by their military? Please, I'm all ears on ideas.

If you don't understand it, allow me to note the following:

We feel support for a certain faction in-game.
We don't want them to look for unjustified alternatives in-game.
But we are impossible to express our support properly because of non in-game issues.

So in short, we don't want people to break lore because of terms that have nothing to do with lore.

I understand Alec standpoint. And he wont be surprised if I say I agree and disagree with his oppinion. A military group CAN handle the situation for a longer term. Sure not 24/7 but if Im rmember right, when the 1st WRF was on the top, Omegas was fairly safe for miners, and Im sure a lot of Kruger miner agree with this sentence (The active WRF members number was only 4). We always was close and came if someone needed help or reported a pirate in Omegas. Sadly RM dont do the same. Just yesterday I runned into 3 Outcast arms alone on my DHC- eagle and called an [RM], but his short answer was "Dont care". This wasnt the 1st time when civilians called back up, but [RM] forces usually better prefered Hamburg planet where almost nothing happen than Omega 7 rocks (this RM was in Conn but char change not so hard).

What need to do? Simply. You personally have a half dozen of [RM] tagged, and who know how many indy RM char. You and others park 1-1 on Elbich/Briesen and change there if civilians need some protection against corsairs or RHA/RF. All time. In mass. And of course kill or kick out the enemy. How and why is secondary for a miner who can throw out a dozen of half hour work in a day because he must drop the cargo, pay tax and so on. And do not make patrol when noone around, but come when really needed.

And dont think I am behind the DHC/RHA cease fire pact, I always chose the way of fight, and this sound to me like a surrender, but I totally understand my members. Daumann and Kruger dont contain so much member like RHA contain aces. 2-3 from us what have moderate skills in fight, others sadly... . DHC- tried a lot. Hired BHG- hired mercs, created WRF, begged for rheinland technology coz eagle is sux in O11 radiation. Seems like noone wanted messing with RHA and we dont wanted a 2nd Dublin (actually Dublin is better coz at least HAF is there and die for his civilians).

I already know the answer: the magic word RP and common sense, but losing and losing and losing all day, more times is boring after a while. RM leaders somehow never understood this. We asked, noone can say we dont tried, because RM not helped solving our problems, we solved on our own way. And before someone say it is OORP, it isnt. A firm - especially if no other way - juse up his money weapon. This is the capitalist way and he dont care how government dont prefer it.

Now I told my oppinion about your question, what is not a new thing. I proved in the past how it can work, with smaller number player. And I now turn back a little bit your question. What did RM for his civilians? I am in Rheinland since 2 years and dont saw too much. Seems like you are surprised just dunno why.

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