Liberty Navy [LN] Feedback Thread

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Sorry I couldnt read all of this. My spaceship is waiting outside, some pirates are attacking my house with AKs.

Its funny how people only compare this place to reality when it suits them, isnt it?

Aaaand, I do believe we're done here now. I'll let you get a few breathes in to try and gather a few last words while I walk away. Thank you, and come again.

Okay, you want some game-only issues?

Alright, here's some of the things I mentioned to Joe on Skype;

1.) Liberty just gave up any political leverage they had against the Zoners. Now if we ever try to bring up issues with them supplying pirates with weapons, they can just claim they give them to Liberty as well.

2.) Joe says this is to "test" the Zoners and see if they stick to neutrality. If they don't, it -might- be useful. If they do, it helps us not-at-all. I can guarantee, having been a Zoner heavily involved in politics, that they won't, as they are currently in a very favorable political situation. Now if the pirates or navy complain, all they have to do is say they are giving the weapons to both sides, and then neither side can do anything about it without giving up their own access.

3.) Eventually the LN will stop using the Zoner weapons because they are less useful. The pirates will continue using them. We will be back to the same situation we had before where pirates were using Zoner tech on lawfuls. Only now, there is nothing they can do to the Zoners to get them to stop giving those weapons to pirates.

4.) If the LN catch a Zoner delivering Furies to pirates, if they try to prevent him from doing so, they forfeit their own tech permissions. The Zoners can pull that tech away from the LN while keeping it for pirates, and not be breaking neutrality.

5.) This will create stress between other factions as well. Liberty Navy and Ageira/Detroit Munitions. Ageira designs the Vengeances and Magma Hammers and has a contract with the Navy to supply them. Part of the advertising for both companies (who are partners, one designs, the other builds) is that they are the sole providers of the Liberty Navy's weapons. Now the Liberty Navy is using weapons from other sources. That destroys the company's advertisements and may lead to a loss of business. Afterall, if the Liberty Navy doesn't consider them the best, why should other Liberty organizations? Note: The Liberty Navy may still consider them the best, but the connotation of seeing LN with Zoner weapons is that they don't. This is what others will see. This will sour relations between the Liberty Navy and its arms providers.

6.) A lot of people see this as shady RP. Whether it is or not doesn't matter, people's perceptions of it is what matters. This opens the door for people to point at this and say "Look, the largest official faction did shady RP to get tech, so can we!" This will lead to more abuse of the tech system, which is already a rather large problem, as Mjolnir mentioned earlier.

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