Keepers

[Treewyrm]

You tell me:

Why should nomad morphs who RP differently in basis of text to not be able to use nomad gear?

And that's the crux of the problem. Roleplaying different, roleplaying something else but simply using nomad ships as vehicle of that roleplay. The result is a tower of babel, where everyone ends up speaking their own language, their own dialect and nobody would understand who does what. Paired with an ID permitting attacking pretty much anything it doesn't take a lot of thinking to imagine a situation in which say an individual player approaches us with an interesting roleplay idea which requires that we don't shoot each other, so we agree. I can relay that to the faction, and they would steer clear from attacking, even in self-defense if that would be necessary. An indie player would be outside of that, may as well there be no means of contacting one outside the game at all, they do whatever they want, do their own stuff and that stuff can easily end up in a clash with whatever roleplay scenario or event that is being cooked up.

I'd like nomads to do two things. First, invasions, with everything burning, ships blowing up, people crying. Second, to stop thinking nomads are some special RP and you need to think hard and find a way to create some talkative nomad who explores and stuff. Nomads are Evil Aliens From Outer Space, and they are here to kill us all. Anything else is silly. "We come with peace, talk to us for 30 minutes before firing a single shot" is sooo oorp.

I've got problem with that. Nomads can be considered antagonists based on situation, but they ain't typical villains and never really were, that's just your tunnel vision makes thinking that this is all there is to be. Otherwise that would have been phantom mk2 with fluorescent ships and more purple.