=CYLON= Clan

[Unit-sk855]

The goal is to achieve a happy medium between discovery RP and your idea for your faction. You clearly want to play Cylons and thats fine with me. Some members of the community hate the idea of crossovers. I sympathize with them. The problem is, the ships are in the game, they bring in members, and they are a GOOD thing for the community as a whole by promoting RP potential and greater possibilities outside of just freelancer. This brings in more people interested in the server because of the existence of the ships that they are fans of.

This can be a good thing if its done correctly. Some may dissagree, if they do well... sucks to be them as long as your doing good for the community and not just wrecking it.

Now to do good for the community you have to put discovery RP style first. That means mainly do not ever, and i mean EVER, pull a "Too bad we are here, deal with us". I know you do not have that mindset, but dont fall into it. I saw it happen already with a couple factions that started out with good ideas, and it degenerated into them trying to do what they wanted, it harmed more than helped the development of roleplay, and they ended up leaving within a week or so of creation.

Now to do good for the community and follow the Discovery RP standards you need a good solid diplomacy that you follow to the grave. First and foremost, i suggest dropping the hivemind we shoot you and become hostile to you if you attack us idea set. This will NOT work for one main reason. You are just starting out here, you will lack the support you need to fend off your new found foes. You will log on every day to a player base that have set up their ships, fleets, and allies to destroy their enemies. they have hours of logged practice in tactics, and ship loadouts are perfected. Your newer players will be destroyed repeatedly, they will get mad, they will flame, and they will get sanctioned and you will all look bad.

Im not trying to say you guys suck at flying, heck i have not even seen you in game at all. I have however seen this happen time and time again in new clans/factions/groups on every online game i have ever played. Trust me, if you want to succeed, use the SUC in succeed. SUCk up to as many established factions on the other side of the BSG vs You conflict that you desire. Get your diplomacy set up, and follow it. Put the BSG war on the backburner until you get allies, and most certainly do not tick off anyone other than the BSG and their allies.

You are going to be dealing with the BSG, and the corsair factions mainly. However it seems as though you shot the AW. Of course one instance for them was enough to go KOS towards you. I wish i could have warned you about them before you started. Get on that fast, resolve that issue, and do not get them mad. They have guns, BIG guns, and are tied tightly to the outcast side of things. The outcasts are going to be your only real hope of an ally, so do what you can to make amends with them. I see that youve started this already, keep it up. If you want to survive, you need allies. It doesnt matter if you are the best pilot on the server, when you log on you will have your enemies coming across systems to kill you, especially if you stick with certain factions that youve had conflict with.

You will be swarmed and destroyed for whatever reasons anyone can find to do it. I will say that picking cylons pits you against a faction that will fight you on fair terms if you respect them. And by respect them i mean fight fair, and in good spirit. I dont mean bend over backwards for them, or treat them kindly or better than anyone else. Respect is different than sucking up. Suck up to your allies in a RP way. Offer to help them, explain your cause and justification, sway them with propaganda.

Second suggestion would be to further your sight setting on the bsg, and going from there. Stick with the BSG only. The cylons were attacking the colonies because of transgressions against the cylon race by the people of the colonies. The humans in sirius have taken no part in the war fought on the other side of the universe. The cylons may be machines, but they are evolved machines capable of the desire to live. By this they are also capable of acknowledging the existence of other races of man, and realizing that they have no reason to die just for being human. If the cylons manage to wipe out the BSG why would they then turn their attentions on the rest of humanity? Sirius is not going to try to enslave them, or wipe them out unless you tick off all of sirius.

You will have other human enemies if you fight the BSG. The corsairs will end up attacking you at some point if your battles get close to their space. BSG and corsairs are pretty close allies. Because of this, other corsair allies may end up fighting you also. My suggestion then would be to do what is being done towards a few key factions on this server right now. Attack your targets the BSG. If you destroy them, leave the others alone. So if there is one BSG fighter chilling with 5 corsairs, kill the BSG and leave the corsairs alone. This way you have caused no hostilites other than attacking their allies, and a personal war should stay personal. Dont give them a reason beyond ally killing to come across the universe on a personal revenge trip to kill you.

Now dont be afraid to ask people out of game questions about making diplomacy work. If you want to be allies with someone, contact them out of game and get some information about their faction and what you would have to do to be friends with that faction. This is what you would call "meta gaming" but at the same time it isnt. Its just being smart, you set yourself up for success rather than shooting in the dark and possibly hitting your potential friends in the face.


The last thing i would like to point out is that no one on the server is allowed to blast you into submission. There are rules here about harassment and it has been a sanction able offense to continue attacks when one of the sides does not want the attacks to continue. If you get in to deep you can always work it out in some way. Im speaking strictly in the case of your diplomacy gets so messed up your faction becomes unplayable. This has happened to a few new factions, and some people did set out to specifically shoot them off the server. If it starts to happen, analyze the situation, if you can see a chain of events leading to the situation then peace treaties are in order. You will have to suck up the losses and repercussions that will placed on your faction, but it gives you time to rebuild and reform a new diplomacy that will be stronger than the first. Of course you have to leave your pride at the door for this to work. Some factions dont do that and let themselves die over changing.

Just remember the two main things.

Implement your RP into discovery RP and change your RP to fit the server and its rules over the other way around.

Keep your diplomacy in check, watch who you shoot, and self defense is the best way to do this. open attacks on your enemy the BSG are fine, but dont attack other factions unless you are prepared to deal with the consequences.

I write way to much, but i try to help just as much:D

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*Wilson shows off his ham sandwich* - Armory.003
*mark placed on Unit-sk855's forehead* - Head hitting the desk as of reading the above