Reaver Mercenary Co.

[Dusty Lens]

But if its a case of, screenies or it didnt happen, well, what can i say:)

To be honest?

Nothing. Ideally.

A member engaging without saying a line should be meant to get someone in trouble. Because that person should be in trouble. Casually throwing out that rules are being broken by persons whom the name of cannot be recalled isn't good enough. It's meaningless. It's empty. It's poison.

Back when I was running the XA a member docked on a Junker base. He didn't know what was what. Xoria of all people noticed it and told me. Five minutes later the faction was grounded until everyone passed a knowledge test. If Xoria had just said "your members are screwing up fix kk thx" I would have told him to eff off. He gave me a name, he gave me images. He gave me a reasoned image of what took place and the situation was acted upon.

Then we have this. Which is based on a situation which, frankly, isn't accurate.

Let's hypothesize that bpa engaging without saying a word, after which Ghost dropped two lines while under fire followed by Silver opening up in turn. Which is something they wouldn't bother dropping on the bpa faction or leader because they didn't particularly care. Nor do they have proper screens because the members involved didn't much care, they just said their lines to prevent being sanctioned and returned fire. Because we didn't have anything nor cared to have anything is why you didn't hear us rumble about it.

I care. I wish they had recorded it. Because it'd be good to send that information along. Oh well.

If we did care we'd carefully measure the message we wished to impart, ensure we had the materials we needed to back up our point and then deliver the feedback in such a way to address what we perceived as a direct issue. In this case it'd be directly the faction leader because it concerned the conduct of a specific member which should be handled by said leader rather than as a slash to the face of the group overall.

Because anything less than that isn't useful. It's drive by spray and pray criticism.

As for the rp prior to engagement bit. The next time you feel like this happens either pm me or put the situation here. If it seems to me like a case where someone's legitimate good times on a combat character were compromised I'd like to see it and make an internal adjustment. But without something to work with I'm going to basically tell you the same thing I tell the 18 sabres ganked by gunboat crowd: Give me something work with or bugger off.

Thanks for the nudge.