Phantom Notice

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The idea could've been fantastic. The Phantoms are just a relic of a server that doesn't exist any longer. There's only so many times you can go out with everyone hating you and shoot things. It's fantastic if you want to mindlessly shoot things, but I'm here to roleplay, and that's really tough to do with the stigma that the Phantoms has behind it.

I think this rewrite was the best thing that could've been done to try to revitalize the faction. The only problem with a terrorist group is that we can't really pull any strings without it being perceived as metagaming. I was only with the Phantoms a short time, but I realized pretty quickly that's how things were going.

So, yeah, it was novel. It was nifty at first, being a part of the oldest faction on the server. It just doesn't quite work in today's roleplaying environment, though. Not with our player base.

Jack, while I see you're trying to 'save' the faction, I get the distinct feeling that it's more that you just refuse to let it go. The guys who'd had it over the years certainly tried. I'm not going to say for certain that what you're trying to do will fail, but all you're doing is following in the vein of the previous groups - creating an amalgamation of existing factions with a little more grump behind it. That kind of things gets very stale, very quickly.

So, it was an experience. But it wasn't one that I think warrants still being preserved. Let it go, wrap the lore up, and call it a day. The Phantoms are little more than a name any longer.