' Wrote:i would like to see more player nomads around. ( <-- note here, nomads, not nomads with human equipment, or nomads that use human stuff like lanes, jumpgates etc )
Huhuhuh... well, the thing is that nomad equipment is rather limited and not really supposed to be used as the only weapon choice, hence it's "additional" role rather than being complete counterpart to human weapons and balanced as such. There are no nomad torp, no nomad cruiser disruptor (well, they are here technically, but not being available and not adjusted to be used in multplayer environment, they were used only for single player and therefore are "special"), etc... I agree about jumpgates, but the problem is that not every system is connected via jumpholes, and another problem is that sometimes there is possibly no way of getting to your destination without passing at least one jumpgate. As for trade lanes. Well, that's arguable. I use them but rarely, it does look stupid, but when you have a dense asteroid field in front of you the trade lane suddenly becomes more adequate choice rather than bumping into every rocky chunk and roll around like a crazy monkey as your battleship goes through, which makes no sense either. I'd be happy to throw out all those human turrets, guns, shields and such, but let's face it honestly: ships will just become easy pick targets. So let's not forget about balance, otherwise it's just naked leverage using roleplay as an excuse. Plus certain equipment doesn't have nomad equivalent at all (like radar). Truth is that obviously Nomads weren't designed to be playable in game, however Igiss made them playable, given them possibility to have equipment to compete with regular human ships, all this done certainly for a good reason. So let's not forget about that.
And yes, you can chat. But not in a normal way. Quite rare, obscure and ambiguous. Telepathy that is. Nomads aren't talkative but that doesn't imply that they cannot, they quite can, after all they have managed to infest government and military structures, play tricky politics (human politics that is), and they have almost brought down colonies to the knees without even showing themselves up. If anything that shows quite a lot. So they surely can understand what you are saying at system chat. It's the question of their interest to reply which is fairly low, but isn't nil (otherwise Tegaki wouldn't have his long speech, right? right.). As to "they might not be dumb, but they haven t been too diplomatic either", they are diplomatic and very effective at it, but in their own way and as they see fit. Are you really expecting advanced alien civilization with parasitic tendencies to open up official embassy in New York and talk all day about prices on H-Fuel at Bretonia coming up? About "might not be dumb"... dumb or anything closer to that wouldn't be able to do what they did in sp campaign, how dumb is that now?
If you want my personal opinion: I'm not fond of people jumping on that "peace loving nomad, a nomad - savior of mankind, talky-talky nomad" bandwagon, it's pretty cheap, it's not really unique, it just doesn't make sense (corsair nomad?! give me a break). When silence is golden and each word you pass into system chat or in private in-char message takes time to weight it - that's RP. Want a nomad ship? Roleplay a nomad/hybrid but still very nomad-ish in the essence. You don't go into established factions with some out-of-this-world (meaning out-of-game-roleplay) story and roleplay, so why Nomads should grant you that freedom while no one else allows? If anything it's quite the opposite.
Much like a corsair can't be dock at Malta and can't be buddy-buddy with outcasts (as in between player character relationship). What makes you people think that Nomads are any different to this? What makes you people think that Nomads and their RP for some reason give you freedom to get away with anything you want? Wake up and give a thorough thought before considering something like that.
I will go as far as saying that the Nomads, even though they may not have an official player faction status yet, are those having one of the most tight-knit closed RP. Despite the possibilities it's very strict and limited, where freedom is archived with great attention, intricate work and much care.
That's what I think about all this.
Hello, well, I work for the Nomads. We run this place. Can I see your card?
