' Wrote:Well, let me answer your question with another question: why would a Pirate Transport ask for cargo from another transport, when he would really just take it? It makes more sense to just space the guy. A lot less hassle, and what do you care about him? We ask to give the person a chance. We want the interaction to be more than "Oh, it's a Corsair" *Albatross has died*.
That's the kind of attitude that should be kept by an official faction. I was playing my role. I was smuggling. The RM never caught me. A Freelancer did. The Freelancer never said "You'll be expected to pay a fine." or anything of the sort that he's actually connected to Rheinland and that my (misspelled) name will magically appear on a database of horrible criminals who are secretly and silently told to pay a fine. I was just talked to by an Eagle, put on a list that I would never see (it was posted in this morning and is on page 4 of the communications thread), and then FR5ed. Where is the interaction?
If I can compare this to something that would happen ingame, I was just SNACed while I was typing, while I was the only one there. Sure, it's allowed if there was RP, but it was mean and nasty. It's a lot more fun to actually fight the person. The fun of the fight comes from the satisfaction of having won or given him a run for his money.
And you know, I am a member of the Phantoms and I do handle complaints, but we give people a chance to respond, a chance to talk, a chance to play their role in response. Things might not go the way of the person who tried to mash Shift+W, thrust away, repeatedly ask what I am doing, or cry for help, but we give them the opportunity to try it. I wasn't given the opportunity. I was spotted by a Freelancer in an Eagle and chatted up for a little bit. I wasn't told about the breaking of laws, paying a fine, or ever given the chance to account for myself, and I'll upload that here when I get back on my gaming computer.
I've learned another thing from being on my Phantom. I will RP, always, but if someone does not commit to RPing back, then I can only try so hard. This is one of those moments. I have RPed ingame, but they have decided that they will not commit to responding to that RP they just FR5ed me. Sure, I could write out my life story to someone chasing me around shooting me, but you know what? Do they really care about the RP I have to offer if they just follow me around shooting me? No. Obviously The Major does not care about responding to my RP either. That is why I called this interaction selfish and I stand by that claim.
Now is your chance to play with them, but instead, you are here crying, get over the Q_Q "they FR5'd me for breaking Rheinland's laws". You carried contraband, they had a Freelancer working for them that reported you to them, what the hell is wrong with that?
Funny that you say they avoided roleplaying with you, when your Role is to avoid being caught, right?
Do you send messages to the RM whenever you are carrying contraband? Of course not, it would be stupid, but no one cries to you because you don't do that, that's your Role. Their Role is to enforce the law, fight the LN and destroy the revolution, they are not meant to tell your smuggler anything if they don't want.
Snaced while typing? Right now, they CD'd you, it's up to them to talk to you, and it's up to you if you want to talk to them.
Quote:Do they really care about the RP I have to offer if they just follow me around shooting me?
Do you stop to talk to lawfuls when you carry contraband, or you just fly away, and when they can't catch you, you decide to offer your RP.
Yes, it's a lot easier to show off your great RP when you are not in range to CD's, but hey, didn't work this time, and here's your great RP... complaining in a feedback thread.
Your great RP should start now, solve the problems with them with RP, not with complaints.
If you carried contraband, if you got caught, if you got FR5'd, I call that enough RP.
It wasn't the RM who caught you? It was someone hired to do that exact things, now, that's valid.
They didn't decide to use the Eagle to catch you, it just happened.
