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[The Republic Of Liberty]

Take note that I am not trying to troll here, but I want to offer genuine advice as someone who wishes to interact with the LSF on his characters in a more meaningful and serious way. I apologise in advance if any of this may sound harsh, but I just want to make a point. If you feel insulted, be assured that was not my intention.

I want to propose to the leadership of the LSF to take a long and detailed look at how KPT is running itself at the moment (last week's RP surrounding the tension between Liberty and Kusari especially), both forum RP and ingame performance - and adapt as much of that for yourself as possible. LSF should become a serious intelligence force that extends its operations to all the houses around it for the benefit of house Liberty. Fly actual undercover ships in hostile territory (Freelancer ID, not LSF so that people can't metagame it) and record operations. Be extremely competent.

We do have some undercover ships. Though, those who do are the busiest players and sometimes end up lacking the time needed to fill a recon report. Also, admittedly, I've not followed KPT's RP in the late days. Kusari has never been my thing. Even though the vistas are beautiful.

A member of your high command flying with =LSF= tag in the middle of Kyushu and getting captured then killed is kind of... well, ridiculous. You need to mix overt actions with covert ones, I think I speak for the members of any and all politically charged groups in Sirius when I say that a well pulled off intelligence - counter-intelligence type conflict would be absolutely brilliant, but everyone has to be playing ball on at least a similar level. When I fly my politically charged (which most of them are) anti-Liberty/anti-Rheinland characters, I want to be afraid of LSF spies. I don't want to know at first sight that they are here and have everyone disregard them anyway because they are just ineffective. And no, I don't mean in PvP.

So if I understand, you want us to be more mean, darker. That can be done. Though, it's more on an individual level. As for Wolfe, that was simply unplanned, and does not represent the faction mindset.

And it's not just that: imagine how many RP situations you will create by delivering unique intelligence to the leadership of Liberty. I am sure you can find out an angle on how to get the revolutionaries of Rheinland to work with you or how to get Kusari to slow down their progress in Bretonia by creating diversions behind the lines, or how to accurately predict the strength of the incoming Gallia invasion which they announced months ago. Think 10 steps ahead, entangle yourself in various spy conspiracies and make the politics between the houses as interesting as they should be.

Rheinland: We, in the past, had the idea to develop ties with local criminals... Alas, most criminals in Rheinland have decided to take an Ultra-nationalistic path. It's not like in Liberty where Rogues (example) could develop ties with RM if they wanted to. Our only nationalist group is Xeno.
Kusari: Since our relations are going upside down, and Bretonians are getting their back handed over, yes. It is something that we are starting to consider.
Gallia: That's a tricky one to me since there is a minefield and naval bases on each ends of their space. So entering without raising alarm seems unfeasible in-RP. Although, now that they are open to trading (something I don't understand at all), I guess some undercover could go there and recon.

I hope this will give you some motivation to beat yourself into the most efficient intelligence agency in Sirius. You have a duty to be excellent. And yes I know you all have lives, I'm not asking you to be online more, and I'm not telling you "ur rp sucks". I'm asking you to take a second look at how you do stuff overall, maybe you can do some of those things more effectively both gameplay and RP wise, and it will attract more interest to the faction and spying in general. LSF is one of the most active factions on the server. It should honestly be far more awe inspiring.

Atm, that's the problem, our lives. Leadership members and those immediately beneath are extremely busy at the moment. Still, next week I should be less busy and probably more active.

--king

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