' Wrote:What in correct RP wise should the BHG be limited to in its options for capships.

' Wrote:Apex :
1. I haven't wasted my, or my LH members' time by recounting your rather unimpressive responses to being pirated, so accusing them of having some sort of animosity towards you as a result of it is both inaccurate and slanderous. You have too high an opinion of yourself if you think I have spent any time bemoaning your escape since it happened, days ago.

2. You escaped for one simple reason : I place a greater value on the roleplaying of my piracy commentary than on how fast I fire supernovas, as anyone who has been pirated by me can attest to.

3. Bragging about your real life exploits and rp experience falls rather flat when the actual in-game demonstration amounts to the following :





So spare us your sanctimonious recriminations.
You were going to be reported whether I blew you up or not, and that's a result of your choices, no matter what your persecution complex tells you.

' Wrote:*brings fan to blow all the testosterone away*
There is one answer to this question, but the question in itself ignores one big gameplay issue and something of a taboo here. Also, let me make a small hijack of your thread here to plug my newest campaign. Let's drop the "in RP" for "makes sense". There's nothing "in RP" (as in role play) but the character being played. So, what can be "in RP" (mode?) or "ooRP" (mode) is the player, playing or not his character. I'm swimming against the current here, but I've had it with the "ooRP" witch hunt.

Anyway, about your question. Most people can come up with a story to justify pretty much anything. The problem with that mentality is that not always these stories make a lot of sense. The ""I stole it" card" (as we like to call it here) has been played to exhaustion to justify the oddest combinations of ships and roles, and today is severely frowned upon as a jumping start to a character's background. Also, some guys simply present flawed stories, when it comes to them making any sense, as to how they have "stolen" such hardware. Sometimes to a point that it becomes blatantly clear, that the character's background isn't being defined to really promote an original starting point for it, but merely an excuse to procure this and that item that combined will provide a kick ass result. Resuming, people do try to justify getting the best material.

Another point to bring is that we try and make some sense of our little universe by assigning distinctive hardware type, shape, color and limitations and some behavior standards for each role. We try and incentive (force) people to conform to these pre-set roles so our universe have in itself some sort of organization that we all identify as meaningful. To that effect, even though one can come up with a sensible enough story to justify this and that oddity, it will still be taken with great reserve and, since people clearly have had it with the ones that try and abuse this, outright hostility.

So, if you don't want to cause a fuss, try and stick to the basic role that we've (everyone) have shaped up. Stick to the Bounty Hunter hardware and role for starters. That doesn't mean that you won't be able to extend that somehow, but while you're still inside the "learning curve", that role should do. When you get the hang of Disco, you'll probably understand which liberties inside that role that you can tap to and which should be left alone for the sake of everyone else's fun (and your own in interacting with others).