In an attempt to.. Remove the doors on this "closed" faction. Ive changed.. how recruitment is done. I have help usually from Nosferath in the morph trial recruit process. and HIS BRAND of recruitment is top notch and awesome.
He makes missons and quests and all sorts of cool stuff.. (check our site if you dont beleave me). Id love if he could do it all the time. but he cant.. hes going to school and that takes alot of time. I CAN DO a similar process be it ... slower and paces for a ripe old man of 30 of which headnom huggie can provide.
So OPEN/Season means the khara are fully on deck assisting with recruitment meaning you becoming a fully fledge member could take as little as a month or less if you learn well.
Open/off season.. is when this fuddy duddy can walk you folks personally through the process. I dont know personally how long it will take but.. I cant give you everything you want right away.. as much as i might want to.. because well honoring the hard work of those before you.. dictates you know what your doing..
Well. the active morph or trial ID system I think is fatally flawed. Infact. While the issue has come up to make nomads somewhat open to bolster activity.. I think where the incorrect lamb to sacrifice for this because we are loosing factions regardless.
Ask faction leaders and long running factions about thier activity not the numbers the quaility.. for one reason or another activity is suffering. I have nothing to blame myself. And i hate to read threads or opinions that blame ONE thing for all of it. Because if you look at the problem of server activity as a whole.. there are too many different reasons it tastes bland.
IE theres systemic causes.
One I like to think the mod is large.. perhaps too large (But i love the large map i don't want it to change)
two Rules.. I personally think the current list of rules are outdated .. why? because i used to write rules like that in my server (another game). They read like reactionary provisions put in place to stop a flood of complaints. Reactionary rules that no longer matter cause of flhook features and technical advancement of the mod are taken off the list but i think the whole thing needs redoing past rule zero which is already perfect as is.
three? Boredom.. no ones wants to just go in and shoot. people write amazing stories and get little to no feedback unless their is exceptional/mind blowingly well depicted sex or violence in them (cause the regular sex and violence has failed) the aphathy has corrupted even the most general expectation to role play / get along so it naturally falls to going somewhere to wit you will get you shot.
four? Skype I hate it its the devil.. it lags..it needs to go to hell.
five? Skype again. cause i really hate it. We hang out in skype not in game. Freelancer integrates into STEAM you can chat and even have voice chat VIA steam cause the console is a shift tab away from using the web and community content. Its a much cooler idea.. unless.... someone can meld skype and freelancer... but i wont even go there.
thats off the top of my head.
SO HUGGIE WTF DO YOU WANNA DO ABOUT IT?
There isnt alot i can do but voice this stuff and have folks agree or disagree. Though what i can endorse is another thing all together.
Have you seen the morph ID?
Code:
Pilot carrying this ID is a Nomad/Hybrid, who :
Can attack only at self-defense or assisting Nomads and Wild in combat.
Cannot ally with non-Nomads.
Cannot attack Nomads and Wild.
Cannot demand credits or cargo.
Cannot land anywhere except the Shrine.
Allowed ships: Nomad Light Fighter (Nomad Morph) only.
Carrying unmounted IDs in your ship, as well as not equipping an ID, is a serious crime.
I am open to see it changed to this.
Code:
Pilot carrying this ID is a MORPH, who :.
Cannot attack Nomads and Wild.
Cannot demand credits or cargo.
Can only land on Nomad bases.
Allowed ships: Nomad Light Fighter (Nomad Morph) only. Can use all mountable equipment.
Carrying unmounted IDs in your ship, as well as not equipping an ID, is a serious crime like sodomy or theft or theft of sodomy.
WHOA...
now before you all flip out and lose your mind and star screaming terrorist id.
Everyone on this damn server is a terrorist. even the neutral id. they terrorize us with their neutrality.. SCREW EM. i think separating and sanctioning every id to attack party A and not party B was dumber then heck, it doesn't curb the chaos! it doesn't curb anything! prove me wrong! ive seen a nun stab a bag lady in broad daylight! the world and the universe et all can have weird consequences and occurrence, to rule this out is insanity.
(to summarize it isnt any worse then a freelancer id sit down take deep breaths)
its the smallest and lightest fighter we got but MORE IMPORTANTLY morphs arent fully connected to the hive I value and wish to see our Role play above all else held to cannon. (not matt but "as chizzeled in officialism") Opening labriads assasins and bombers who are warforms/ships melded to the hive breaks that cannon.
and learning the rp isnt hard it MIGHT TAKE TIME and i might be surprised by my future students tot he point where the morph change might not be needed.. but I think these changes are needed and should happen SOON.
So I am changing what I can about recruitment..
HUGGIE WHY ARE YOU SUCH A STICK INT HE MUD ABOUT RP CANNON OR NOMAD RP IT DOESENT MATTER LOL
Then why bother calling the place an rp server if factions aren't allowed to gauge or make their lore as complex or involved as they want? Nomads are Aliens.. it requires a MINIMUM effort of method/make believe.
Stuff you shoulda learned in pre school make believing.
If you dont want to do that then dont spite us like the "priests of nomads". It isnt a conspiracy or anything to slight you because you dont want to take the time to do what 50+ have done in the past.
Whats ultimately shameful is that its only been 50+ members over the years.. I aim the change that but I will not sacrifice the minimum of what makes nomad rp alien. I cant beleave it was the rp that made joining difficult because frankly you cant get more entitled, stuck up, and unwilling to change then me folks. I got in SOMEHOW. previous management? sure you can blame that. But whats the point? its a blank slate now.
So give us a shot. or.. if you like the indie morph shout to high heavens pm your admins rave and rant about how wonderful it is.
There is a generic Nomad ID that isn't used and I've never seen it used...
It should be like a graduated Nomad Trial ID
Perhaps the Bomber/VHF could be allowed for use, but it should be restricted so they're aren't lolraids into new york.
Maybe to influence activity like their used to be in the Omicrons/Omega.
Can only fight in the Omicrons, Omegas, Tohoku, ... (you get it)
ZOI limitation might help.
Any way to open up closed factions that have an integral part of the lore of both discovery and freelancer should be open to the public regardless of actual/forseen consequences.
' Wrote:There is a generic Nomad ID that isn't used and I've never seen it used...
It should be like a graduated Nomad Trial ID
Perhaps the Bomber/VHF could be allowed for use, but it should be restricted so they're aren't lolraids into new york.
Maybe to influence activity like their used to be in the Omicrons/Omega.
Can only fight in the Omicrons, Omegas, Tohoku, ... (you get it)
ZOI limitation might help.
Any way to open up closed factions that have an integral part of the lore of both discovery and freelancer should be open to the public regardless of actual/forseen consequences.
Phantoms? No.
Wilde? Yes.
Nomads? Certainly.
Why open up the bomber and the heavy fighters with a zoi? I mean the fact where in the omicrons (when we are) do not bring folks online to shoot us or rp with us as is. I dont see how the zoi improves anything but limiting and carving the game map.
Freelancer.. honestly shouldn't have zoi's.. its space its big it should be explored and fully available.
The map IS HUGE we shouldn't be carving it up.
My plan is a simple revision of the morph rply the morph can act pretty much the way it wants cause its not part of the Hive rply it fits the faction lore. Also when or if the trial is is changed is almost an afterthought as is because the assist keepers and wilde in battle or the self defense line is meaningless cause everyone shoots morphs as they "tend" to think fo them as easy targets.
I want to change that. id like to give the little guy to everybody.. fully loaded to traipse about Sirius whenever they wish to go? If THAT isn't enough tell me how that's deficient.
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Lucad give us a pm when you out and about we like dragging morphs around.
' Wrote:Could you please give us a short summary? Your posts are a bit hard to read.
recruitment changes: open possibly slower don't know, haven't tried, the phone isn't ringing off the hook.
To those who charge us with enriching their rp experience on disco like seeing a manatee or dolphin at sea: opinions I've collected on activity is staleness, boredom, across the board , Say this is systemic (google it). nomads cant fix alone.
Wanting to Change trial ID into Morph Id: difference? sirius wide ZOI no need to know nomspeech in morph.. cause morphs are rply retarded. no self defense clause. go wild.
ZOIS: made point(s) ZOI's are stupid repeatedly. Will make another point to this.
If i have a ship in a limited zoi on the big sirius map as it is its a loss of incentive to be on that character.. it causes one to "shelve" that charicter when theres no activity, Two shelves don't make a right. Ive been camping "hot zones" on purpose on off hours to see what happens.. guess what NOTHING HAPPENS.
Want to fix the omicrons? lift zois / dont screw with nomad RP. break down the limits gallia style you'll see exsploration, hula parties. hi jinks. et all.
But at this point i am skeptical and downright chaulk fulla historical examples why carving up the map for ships/factions don't always work the way you want them to. At this point a little free for all can only help things.
Lets make more fun choice.. less dis-fun-ctional choice.
What fascinates me here in this place is how people's ideas and suggestions get brushed aside over and over again with bogus arguments, and they get declared pvpwhoring lolwhut trolls for pointing out flaws with well thought through points and argementation.
THen, when enough time as passed, or simply in another thread, the same people who brushed aside those ideas and insulted the people who first brought them up, present them a their own ideas with the only argumentation being "because it pleases my magnificientness that it should now be so, and also you should know that I'm pretty awesome and unique".
That aside, I think you should make the "trial nomad" fly assassins and not light fighters. Light fighters (both morph and especially voidrunner, at least in the past) are ships perfect for people who wish to annoy, gank, and whine, because the LFs can't be killed, but are deadly in groups, and some people like to pretend that the battleship which defended its ally ever had a chance in hell to kill their nomnom LFs. Assassins may have more firepower, but at least they can be killed by someone who knows how to pvp.
In addition, I think they should be restrained to the omicrons minus gamma, and allowed to fly larger ships. Because if the nomads are more concentrated in an areas where one would really expect to find them, its well... you know... more logical and easier to find some if you want. And its more fun for everybody involved if people get to fight more than dodgy little ships that can only be killed with luck. But you already know that.
The nomads zoi is Sirius wide. I fear if we make concessions / are forced to a zoi it will just avalanche into further retardation's and limiting.
As for the argument the lf's are impossible to destroy.
I die in them.. all the time. all of us die in them.. all the time. Yes they are fast yes they are manuverable. But they arent invincible. i know better. you should as well.
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