I can understand your frustration with the way Volkhan operates, perhaps you do not enjoy its violent aspects but I expected you to appreciate the fact that there are two sides with completely different diplomacy setups.
I'd like to see the diplomatic setup. Where can I read something about who the Volkhans shoot and who the Katzians? I don't believe there is anything like a "diplomatic setup" for the Volkhan group. I'd really be interested. Prove me that there is more than "we shoot everything... everytime... because we can." BEcause exactly this has been my experience every time I meet SCRA in Dublin.
Quote:One day you walk past an SCRA and expect to get shot, instead he greets you and treats you with respect. The next day you spot another SCRA pilot and he opens fire on sight. Confusion is bound to happen but at the same time it gives a dynamic flavour to the Faction.
I don't enjoy the "dynamic flavor" because the attempt to rolepay might very likely lead to my being banned for 4 hours from the system I love to play in. [No, I don't have chars that fly to the next sector to pew the people there. My roleplay is centered and fixed, so I can't take the 80 % risk at the moment to run into triggerhappy Volkhan-shoot-them-all-ups.]
My consequence: I will dock my ship and wait until the storm has blown. Your guys raided Dublin twice today, almost exactly 4 hours after the first one. IMG| Dublin did not even launch in numbers. You can guess the reason. If you go on like that, I can predict you will end like the Outcasts sitting in front of Java and no one even cares to show up because everybody went just: "Ah... no... let's dock."
Quote:I do not understand this comment about wiping Role-Play away, shooting is part of Role-Playing and violence is expected.
Depening heavily on the definition of roleplay. Roleplay as it must happen before an engagement... sure. I can get that. But in my opinion "real" roleplay has a topic (that is not: We will shoot you, you are all our enemies), it has a foundation in the faction (like: political views) and it is executed in a way that allows your partner to shape the outcome (not: we will shoot you, talk about Socialism and Workers... we are Volkhanists... let's get this over with).
And I should explain "wiping roleplay away": If you play in a fixed system and this system is cleaned twice in 6 hours, all people logg or are barred, you change the setup completely. Normally, a faction comes in, attacks a part of the players - actually their enemies... that is in Dublin almost never more than 1 faction or if it is, you should not be there because then you are likely FAR from home. Your guys attack EVERYBODY in Dublin.
That makes the damage to roleplay excessive... while normally e.g. only the Mollys get beaten up, you beat more than 1 faction out of the game. You thus kill interaction in a much larger scale than "normal enemies".
This is what I meant when I wrote "roleplay wipe".
Quote:Just as much as you would hire my Ghost Reaver to "wipe people" away from Dublin.
No, I guess now you see the difference. Ghost hits 1 party. He can kill a few. Never a complete faction, and never more than one faction. SCRA killed 2 completel factions today in Dublin (Molly, IMG) and this killed 2 of 3 active factions in Dublin (BMM doesn't count atm), effectively stopping roleplay there almost completely.
Quote:Getting the feeling here that when my combat abilities is serving your interests it's completely fine and "good Role-Play" but should the opposite ever happen then these kinds of comments arrive at my doorstep. Or am I wrong for drawing that conclusion based on your positive feedback to the Reavers but rather negative feedback to the SCRA?
Nah, it's not about me getting killed, because I lose most of the time (I'm used to it) and this time I even killed myself. =) It's not that. I am not fine with the above mentioned grave consequences of the SCRA raids on roleplay beacuse you cause much more damage than "normal" raids that target fewer people. Comparing Reavers and SCRA is not possible, imho. The one strike... almost surgically, a few targets, SCRA just uses the nuke, shoots everything up (that is my impression).
