I'll start from the good things today. I pretty much adore Order| as my first faction where I spent quite a long time and was promoted to
Lieutenant, I think. I had good time playing with
Order| on my
Zoner characters; we had an enjoyable period of cooperation between
NLH and
Order| and my experience with faction is good in general.
The problem of Order| is lack of ability and lack of will to control the independent players, espcially the capital ships. Yes, Maat and other things are good and awesome,
but on practice Order| is not capable of controlling indies even in Omicron Minor.
After I joined
|EA to find a good use for my
Tresher, I encountered all this:
Order| Osiris, independent Osiris, Geb and some snubcraft - all on one Tresher (in that fight my Tresher was the heaviest ship; the whole raiding party consisted of 2 gunboats and me) - in Order| message dump it was reflected as
"It was no match for our tactical prowess."
Order| snubcraft and 3 Osirises - once again,
I understand that the faction is not capable of controlling TCG| behavour, but the problem is that in this case or any another the Order| members made nothing to balance the fight - which is meant to be the example of good player attitude.
Two Reshephs, Order| Sekhmet and Nephtys - this one isn't made by me, but you see the idea, once again there is a lack of even a voiced advice about not attacking at once.
This,
this and
this had happened today. And once again, what I'm talking about is not being responsible for the actions of indies (though, factionised indies may had got a sense of good gameplay), but trying to keep the fight more or less enjoyable for both sides.
I'm not complaining about being shot - it's completely fine, I'm not that good with mouse roleplay. But I don't think that everything is fine with players' attitude on the matter. If Order| members can't control independent players, they can just stay away and observe the fight if their participance is really unnecessary - or disrupt the attempts of enemies to cruise if they are on light ships - and that's what is actually expected from the official faction.
I was still flying my Order| ships when BNG raids on Minor started, I used to take down Liberty Dreadnoughts myself in team with other Order| players and independents, but now I see what's up from the other side as well.
Good day and good luck.
Apparently, the thread lacked constructive suggestion. So, here it is:
as the reasonable players try to keep the situations ingame under control. Give the independent players ingame orders, request them to break off since the usage of more ships will be unreasonable, listen to the others and their opinions about the balance of this certain fight. A year surplus of frutstration isn't the best addition to healthy roleplay environment.