Rheinland Military [RM] Feedback Thread

[BaconSoda]

Baconsoda, your assumption of those Freelancers (which is in fact one guy) being RM personnel is entirely incorrect and I don't even see why you would think we're patrolling on hidden characters instead of using our own.

I believe I already linked you sufficient evidence that we're in long standing interaction with the Freelancer catching you here (post 17), which is all visible and available in public.

Here is the private message indicating your catch from the same person interacting with us previously. He sent me it in PM because Freelancers don't have access to the criminal database. Here is the RM roster. Adam Spire is not on it, that negates your assumption that he is in an RM member on an alternate character.

The criminal database was open to all traders iRP and even if it wasn't, you easily could have checked it and seen yourself in it in an OORP manner.

Allow me to cite one of the most relevant articles in the laws of Rheinland.
The same way how ignorance of being caught doesn't negate the fact that you were caught.

I also trust you understand that Rheinland is littered by smugglers, a few days ago I spent 3 hours running around the lanes and catching about 15 guys with illegal stuff in his hold.

We cannot title a comms message to every single smuggler or criminal that evades prosecution, we have a lot of ground to cover considering how we're the only active lawful faction in Rheinland and we cannot deal with the problems of everyone individually. Instead, there is a central collection of all criminals, where criminals can see that they are criminals. Just because they don't know of it, that doesn't mean they are innocent.

In addition, you landed on New Berlin, our best guarded and most prized establishment in Rheinland, we can debate whether a full cargo hold of artifacts carried by a gigantic ship would not be spotted by planetside security anyway. Perhaps if you were to bother with actually trying to avoid being caught and not using the lanes / players list when smuggling, things would have turned out to be different. That too, is quite a "lame" act as far as I'm concerned.

At any rate, incidents like this will not be occurring again, since I have given the Freelancer in question permit to confiscate cargo that violates the laws of Rheinland a few days ago here.

If you are so disappointed about being caught, you can always rename / re-rep, but I'm not taking you off the list, simply because of the fact that you were caught violating Rheinland laws in Rheinland.

As a final note, the Rheinland Military, nor the Federal Police are not meant to be carebear nice guys you can see in other Houses. We have a revolution going on exactly because the government and its arms treat situations like this with utter hostility and brutality. Getting shot because you committed one act is a perfectly role play measure, especially considering how the Riot Police is using live firearms to deal with protests or how we don't give a quarter to any civilians who decide to willingly oppose the Rheinland government by violating its laws.

I'll say something right here: I have four trade characters. I don't care about getting Faction Right 5ed. I can just get a bribe and reverse it. It's not a big deal. What is a big deal is that you're not taking the responsibility of an official faction. If new player looks at you right now, they think "Oh, hey, being official or being an RM means that I can be a total jerk towards everyone!" because that's how you're acting. That's not the kind of example the RM should be giving to new players.

Okay, I was caught by a "Trusted Freelancer." Now I explained, because you are the only one who makes the posts and everything is done in secret, it looks like these Freelancers are just you. That's how it looks. Now I've been told otherwise by a couple of folks. I'm sure Adam Spire is a fine upstanding person and if we were in the same room, we'd both get along well and have a wild party. But if I didn't know any better, I would say that Adam Spire was just you because of the way it was carried out.

I'm not ignorant of Rheinland Law. I know well I'm breaking it almost everyday. That's my role. It's your role to catch me. Okay, you did that. Now are you going to do anything with it? No, you're going to put it in a little vault and ask the Admins to do something about it. Now you're telling me I'm lame for playing my role while you honestly could not even be bothered to play yours. But, wait, you expected me to see my name in the Communications Channel which has the most ridiculous turnover on the forums, buried in a thread I didn't even know existed, where my name is spelled incorrectly (Thank you Marvin for pointing that out)? You didn't even put the effort in to spell the names correctly! And you're calling ME lame!? Talk about a case of mistaken identity.

But you know what? You've made it very apparent you don't care. You've made it very apparent that your version of RP is completely selfish and self-entitled. I guess you don't care about that either; it fits the personality. That's not the kind of behavior fitting of an official faction. I don't think I asked for anything hard. I just asked for you to make a separate thread where you directly communicate with those Freelancers (maybe in the Bounty section as a bounty particularly for them, so they can get paid now), take the reports out of quotes in your thread (Also take the time to spell the names correctly now that this has been pointed out), and make another template to put in the communications thread section when you catch nine smugglers to FR5 once every eight months. Would that really be so hard? It would be about half an hour of effort to make you look a lot less like a jerk.

EDIT: Blodo I was never caught by a cop or an RM.

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[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.