04-25-2019, 11:55 PM
I have addressed this issue in the faction multiple times in the past years. While I have made apologies and told people the situation would never be perfect, people still feel the need to backpedal past my apologies and explanations and judge my faction on the instances of random interactions where they are outgunned numerically - or out right lose due to lack of coordination.
Normally, I would ignore this sort of thing. I very strictly enforce that no members in RHA ever make complaints about anything related to the term "ganking" ingame even if they are outnumbered numerically tenfold. It is not our way, complaints and holding grudges over random interactions that go south based on lack of coordination or numbers to fight whatever enemy awaits us is nothing more then toxic for the server - this policy is one of the reasons why we have been so successful as a faction. However, as of recent some of my own members have been making this issue to me in pm repeatedly. I have purposely not logged in game for the past week to try and alleviate this situation, but it seems that even our newer non-pvp-inclined members are logging in to find entire droves of enemies simply log off. To many of us, including me, I thought it was simply fear of reinforcements from out side, but it turns out that simply is not the case for some of our enemy factions.
So it seems some of our enemies are now trying to get our faction to die by simply not participating in anything to do with us. Well, now you've pissed me off.
It's funny, back when I took leadership for RHA, we were a tiny faction looking to establish a name for ourselves. We had never been recognized as a faction to put up a fight - that didn't stop us from logging in and dying repeatedly of course. As my old 2ic Riess would put it "RHA was RM and the Corsairs old punching bag". Naturally, we would have a member or two who would ask if fights to could be a little bit toned in our favor. But our response from these factions at the time (both of which were comprised partly of a member base that is still playing them today) was "get good at the game faggots". Well, now the tables have turned haven't they? But of course when things are on the flipside it's all too much for our opposing factions to bear. Now that Razor Oders, broken titans and centurions cannot save our opponents, they have taken to not logging to interact with us.
This is the last time I am going to make my case on this. I owe it to my HC, which is soon going to be entrusted with the faction for a long time, as well as several others in the faction who are going to be its lifeline for a long time.
The instance at Hamburg was a result of anger from various outside factors. Complaints about our drastic overwhelming force there are something I'd simply apologize for. What I will not constantly apologize for is numerous raids against us or in defense of us where we happen to get 2 or 3 more people than the opposing side subject to situation. I and RHA are NOT going to go out of my way to bring a force that is 100% mirrored to that of our enemy every time in every situation. I will wait for enemies to gather, I will fight against the odds, I will fight caps, razor boats, missile bcs, cloaking dual MR SHFs, dual nova sucidie bombers, freighters. But I will not force our faction members to line up with something 150% identical every time. These complaints are stupid and childish. "Oh my solaris missile gunboat didn't get to duel another gunboat in omega-5 and was ganked by 3 thors" "Oh, our 3 centurions were met with four odins" "Oh, there were 4 thors shooting at my cloaking donau" my response to this is basically to get over yourselves. I very much do not hate to break it to anyone complaining that our faction numbers and willingness to play will not change based on your ability to log off at every interaction. If you want to ignore us, then fine, we will find other ways to muster activity. I would hate for this to be the last resort, as seen in Omega-3, we are always willing to fight regardless of what odds await us. We haven't always preformed perfectly in listed events, even when our caps sink before our enemies and/or we lose - we do not complain about it.
I have told many of my members to ease off the gas when it comes to pvp scenarios, I have isolated myself from various events and response raids conducted by RHA. I logged in today for the first time. I will continue to do so if that is what helps my members find interactions. Believe it or not, not all of our members are ace pilots in the server. We are not what we were in 4.87. We have roughly the same amount of players, but probably not to the same exact standard.
I am leaving discovery soon (a relief to many of you) and want to clear this up to some of our enemies inrp. I am sorry (to an extent) about how hamburg turned up and I am sorry if there were was some miraculous fight in the past where you were violated like that kid in candy land who had to move backwards on his first move. But I will not apologize for every individual instance of this. RHA will always exist and play on the server with its member base, even if you wont get over yourselves and stay offline. If that is the way it has to be, then so be it, but I would hate for that to be the end result in every case.
This is the last time I am ever going to cover this in the form of a thread on the forums. I will probably regret this in a few minutes, but communication - even with those who dislike me - is key. This thread is open for complies, laughs, huehue harold memes, or to just yell at me and call me a retard. Whatever the case may be.
tl dr srry for gank but stop being a pussy
Normally, I would ignore this sort of thing. I very strictly enforce that no members in RHA ever make complaints about anything related to the term "ganking" ingame even if they are outnumbered numerically tenfold. It is not our way, complaints and holding grudges over random interactions that go south based on lack of coordination or numbers to fight whatever enemy awaits us is nothing more then toxic for the server - this policy is one of the reasons why we have been so successful as a faction. However, as of recent some of my own members have been making this issue to me in pm repeatedly. I have purposely not logged in game for the past week to try and alleviate this situation, but it seems that even our newer non-pvp-inclined members are logging in to find entire droves of enemies simply log off. To many of us, including me, I thought it was simply fear of reinforcements from out side, but it turns out that simply is not the case for some of our enemy factions.
Quote:Viktor van der Steen
been reading up a bit, and I like markam's way of thinking, but well, TBH tried working together with RHA to make things more fun... seems they are just incabable of fair play so it serves them right to be ignored to death, perhaps in the long run players will flock out to different factions and restore a healthy balance in disco
So it seems some of our enemies are now trying to get our faction to die by simply not participating in anything to do with us. Well, now you've pissed me off.
It's funny, back when I took leadership for RHA, we were a tiny faction looking to establish a name for ourselves. We had never been recognized as a faction to put up a fight - that didn't stop us from logging in and dying repeatedly of course. As my old 2ic Riess would put it "RHA was RM and the Corsairs old punching bag". Naturally, we would have a member or two who would ask if fights to could be a little bit toned in our favor. But our response from these factions at the time (both of which were comprised partly of a member base that is still playing them today) was "get good at the game faggots". Well, now the tables have turned haven't they? But of course when things are on the flipside it's all too much for our opposing factions to bear. Now that Razor Oders, broken titans and centurions cannot save our opponents, they have taken to not logging to interact with us.
This is the last time I am going to make my case on this. I owe it to my HC, which is soon going to be entrusted with the faction for a long time, as well as several others in the faction who are going to be its lifeline for a long time.
The instance at Hamburg was a result of anger from various outside factors. Complaints about our drastic overwhelming force there are something I'd simply apologize for. What I will not constantly apologize for is numerous raids against us or in defense of us where we happen to get 2 or 3 more people than the opposing side subject to situation. I and RHA are NOT going to go out of my way to bring a force that is 100% mirrored to that of our enemy every time in every situation. I will wait for enemies to gather, I will fight against the odds, I will fight caps, razor boats, missile bcs, cloaking dual MR SHFs, dual nova sucidie bombers, freighters. But I will not force our faction members to line up with something 150% identical every time. These complaints are stupid and childish. "Oh my solaris missile gunboat didn't get to duel another gunboat in omega-5 and was ganked by 3 thors" "Oh, our 3 centurions were met with four odins" "Oh, there were 4 thors shooting at my cloaking donau" my response to this is basically to get over yourselves. I very much do not hate to break it to anyone complaining that our faction numbers and willingness to play will not change based on your ability to log off at every interaction. If you want to ignore us, then fine, we will find other ways to muster activity. I would hate for this to be the last resort, as seen in Omega-3, we are always willing to fight regardless of what odds await us. We haven't always preformed perfectly in listed events, even when our caps sink before our enemies and/or we lose - we do not complain about it.
I have told many of my members to ease off the gas when it comes to pvp scenarios, I have isolated myself from various events and response raids conducted by RHA. I logged in today for the first time. I will continue to do so if that is what helps my members find interactions. Believe it or not, not all of our members are ace pilots in the server. We are not what we were in 4.87. We have roughly the same amount of players, but probably not to the same exact standard.
I am leaving discovery soon (a relief to many of you) and want to clear this up to some of our enemies inrp. I am sorry (to an extent) about how hamburg turned up and I am sorry if there were was some miraculous fight in the past where you were violated like that kid in candy land who had to move backwards on his first move. But I will not apologize for every individual instance of this. RHA will always exist and play on the server with its member base, even if you wont get over yourselves and stay offline. If that is the way it has to be, then so be it, but I would hate for that to be the end result in every case.
This is the last time I am ever going to cover this in the form of a thread on the forums. I will probably regret this in a few minutes, but communication - even with those who dislike me - is key. This thread is open for complies, laughs, huehue harold memes, or to just yell at me and call me a retard. Whatever the case may be.
tl dr srry for gank but stop being a pussy