Admin Notice: Phantoms 2.0

[Jansen]

News from the Temple of the Damned and your totally not Phantom biased Admin:

After quite a lenghty period of consideration and an even longer period of not having them on this server at all, the Administrator team has decided to alter its stance on the faction you all know and love, the Phantoms.

The main reason for restricting the use of all Phantom related things after the official player faction disbanded, was that it was a terrorist faction with a terrorist ID that allowed people to do whatever they want, most of the ships were also not as perfectly balanced as it would have been good.

Considering that the factions lore does not fit perfectly into todays disco faction landscape and considering that we currently do not see the need for having another terrorist faction we have agreed on the following:

- PHANTOMS ARE BACK, but:
- The Phantoms NPC faction will be reworked and turned into a playable faction
- The Phantoms will not be a 'Shoot everyone everywhere' terrorist faction anymore
- The factions lore has to be worked out in a way to fits into the current disco lore
- Players will be able to request Phantom technology through an SRP, however those will not be easy and will require a huge load of work from your side

We are currently looking for suggestions and fresh ideas in regards to this, so sit back, think and make something pretty. It might be brought into the lore.

And for those that couldnt be bothered to read all the above:

Phantoms are back, but they wont be eating your brains right away.

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[Havok]

I sense a disturbance in the force.

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[Tabris]

As if Virus suddenly cried out in terror...And was suddenly silenced.

[The_Cro_Legend]

Goooood. I was looking forward to this!

[Wraga]

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[Infernius]

Its time for me to collect some betting money. Good i did say they would come back, so now its time for me to collect. To the ones who are involved. Thank you for the bet, i knew i was right. especially after Aoi. Jansen, i might write the lore if you would ask me. Know a good way to start already, but up to you. Poke me on skype you know who i am.

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[Lythrilux]

Inb4 phantoms are zoners 2.0

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[sindroms]

- The Phantoms will not be a 'Shoot everyone everywhere' terrorist faction anymore

Then those are not the Phantoms then.
The phantoms were the only, mind, only faction from back in my memory, where having them pop up on the scanner meant certain death. Flee or be killed, if you even can. It was thrilling, scary and you know you could not reason with it.

You could not even fight it, because their ships were indeed better. That was the thing about the Phantoms. That is what made them Phantoms.

Removing those two things would ruin the faction. Imho, if you wanted to remove it just because of that, then keep them removed and let us bask in memories when they were a threat.

Please do not ruin them. Do not try and defang them in order to have them fit in the very strict lore and rule driven Discovery of 7 years later.

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[Treewyrm]

Well that's a cruel prank, Jens. Could have waited for 1st april to publish it.

[Cashew]

Jansen Wrote:
- The Phantoms will not be a 'Shoot everyone everywhere' terrorist faction anymore

Then those are not the Phantoms then.
The phantoms were the only, mind, only faction from back in my memory, where having them pop up on the scanner meant certain death. Flee or be killed, if you even can. It was thrilling, scary and you know you could not reason with it.


^I agree

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