The Faction Rights are great in terms of continuity and stability. It lends a little hand to the official factions to make sure that something ridiculous doesn't happen and gives them a minor hand in advancing RP. That's neat and really handy. If an LN Cruiser jumps into a 2v1 with 2 Executioners against a Werewolf, I'm happy for the Faction Rights to allow the faction authority over the Cruiser so he can be told to back off. That's nice.
What isn't nice is if a faction inherits a sense of entitlement and selfishness about Roleplay. We're all here to play and have fun, regardless of whether or not someone is in a faction. When a faction uses the same right to tell a Liberty Cruiser not to engage an Outcast Battleship while it is engaged with an [LN] Dreadnought 1v1 several times, that's kind of where it gets silly (Please note, it didn't happen, and I'm not saying it would, I'm just saying it'd be silly). When this happens the 3rd or 4th time, this is where someone can get a little indignant. That Cruiser just wants to have fun, and if whenever he wants to have fun fighting, the [LN] tells him to bugger off because they are fighting (IE: having fun), that isn't fun at all for the Cruiser pilot. Instead, maybe the [LN] should, maybe, take their turn waiting in the queue to have fun while the Cruiser shoots this time. You know, in the name of fun for everyone, because this is what an official faction should be about. In fact, that's what everyone should really be about.
Also, sorry if anyone is sad at me using the [LN] as an example. They're just an excellent faction which makes for an excellent example. I'm not saying they'd ever do this, or that they're bad at doing something, but rather just using them as an example.
But you know, sometimes that gets lost on people. Sometimes they think "Those horrible smugglers, landing on MY planet, not RPing correctly! How dare they!?" and then send along their sense of entitlement onto those smugglers in the form of a FR 5 without any notification. Well, that's not exactly fun for everyone. In fact, it can be kind of infuriating when the smugglers may well be RPing to the best of their limits and then the official faction goes along without giving them the opportunity to RP back. It happens to every faction at some point, where they become indignant in people not giving them respect, just like it happens with every player at some point, and they might just need to be reminded that we're all here to have fun and it wasn't fun for you. Oh well, life goes on. You only live for 3/4 of a century, if you're lucky, so might as well spend it happy.
The same can be said about trying to play with non-vanilla RP. Just try to remember everyone is here to have fun, and if that fun is going after Order in Omicron Minor as an LSF for someone, well that's perfectly acceptable, if not against what the official factions have laid out.
And on a side note, Outcast NPCs pirate in Edinburgh and Leeds. If you want to pirate in Edinburgh, Leeds, or Newcastle as an Outcast, go for it. The same can be said about Texas and New York. If the NPCs thought it was a good enough idea, what can the 101st really say?
[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.
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