' Wrote:just imagine if the official factions would be seperated from their beloved FRs...broken egos drifting in space with no more meaning in their lives. A new cry me a river section on the forums. Indies having fun while official powerless players shouting at them not to.
No, you could not bear the sight of this misery.
Just let them have their rights and the illusion of power over other players.
Play your RP the way you have fun with it and just let the official players talk, its probably his/her moment of the day, so dun take it from them.
Sarcasm aside. Hypothetical: I now band up with say, 5 friends. We check out the ships that are available, and find out the Kusari gunboat is a nice one for allround mayhem. So we all get KNF ID's and get ourselves into these little funboats. Now we want to majorly "pwn" (I believe that's the term this type of player uses?) anyone, so we set up shop somewhere in the Taus, and "roleplay" a blockade. Anyone not complying gets vaporised by chain fire from five gunboats, all armed with a forward cannon for ranged duty. We can dock at the Freeport or any Samura base if we need regens after a battle, after all.
Soon enough our list of targets runs out. Word gets around and people stop coming there. So, let's move! But where to? Well, the Sigmas make for a nice location. We drop a lane and again RP a "blockade". Heck, this time we simply RP being Wilde - since other guys do it, why can't we? So we RP a bit and end up vaporising anyone not Samura or Kishiro, since that's against our ID. Gas Miner Naha is always kind enough to resupply us with bots and bats.
Again, the targets run dry, and there's already quite some "Q_Qing" about us on the forum. But we don't mind, we have a dozen people who cussed us out in space, and we'll file them all as 3.1 rule violations. That'll mean a few bans for sure. Fun, no? But we aren't done yet, so we move again. Where to now? Oh, why not, Dublin! We're at war with the Bretonians anyway, so it's not against the rules. Just have to remember to withdraw to the nearest Gaian base when we need to load up bots and bats. We're all green to Gaians so there's not much they can do about it - no more FR5s. And on that note, since we're in hostile territory we can shoot anything and anyone there! End tally, 5 miners, a dozen fighters, and a battleship (kiting with the forward cannons really worked well!).
I hope this illustrates why it's a good idea to keep official factions around - so that a few players with a mind to spoil everyone else's fun, do not get a chance to do so, at least not unchecked.
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.
