Reaver Mercenary Co.

[Diomedes]

Had a couple of tilts with your guys as a privateer and just wanted to post some impressions.

The lines and RP side of things have been great every time. Never seen a single line engagement from you guys, never been shot while not moving (typing) or anything like that. The 3 to 4 lines that do get said are usually a nice and sarcastic exchange of wit. I don't look forward to fighting you guys because you're good, but I've never felt like I'm going to get unreasonably engaged.

Now, more constructive comments. I have kept it in mind that I'm pretty bad at pvp, and also am currently flying a mouldy crow set up for interdiction rather than dogfighting and my wingman is flying a challenger set-up for the same (so our poor pvp skills are made even worse compared with dogfighting steups)

The tech you guys use, it's a little overwhelming. I can understand multiple tech deals to give each merc a choice of what they want to fly. A Black Dragon with IMG weapons and a Sabre with Corsair weapons seems to be a little much. If an freelancer tried proposing the same idea as a "is this possible" on the forum, regardless of that member's ability to rp, diplomacy etcetera, it would get shot down with a number of "choose role not ship responses." I'm not against a merc group having a colourful collection of tech, it adds character. I would suggest toning down the weird combinations. Like everyone else has to by ID, accept the limitations of your role and specifically of the ship each merc chooses to fly.

Either I have the worst luck ever, or some of your members are using the players online window to hunt down tagged targets. We all look at that window (and justify it in rp in difference way), because I realize hunting bounties or pirating is pretty boring if you head over to some systems just to find that they're all empty. I really don't know how to balance this or what to suggest. It's frustrating to log-on and watch every reaver slowly converge on the system I'm in, especially when I move two or three times. At the same time, I'm actively watching it to know where you guys are, so I'm kind of doing the same thing. I guess the gist here is if a QPC crow is worth so much following, you need more targets; I see you guys more than the KNF.

In practice, I try to ignore tags when using the player list to pick an operations point. I really attempt to just look at how "busy" the system is. Almost makes me wonder if the player list couldn't be changed to not show systems, instead only showing how many people are in each system and which people are online. Would add a nice "long-range scanner" touch, but admittedly might making bounty hunting pretty tough.

All in all, some thoughts to consider. Hope I made some sense and didn't ramble on too much. Now for me to go find some skills so I can actually fight you without getting spaced....

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