Interesting conversation but personally, sometimes I have called in a navy or two to help deal with fights if our numbers completely give us no chance to fend off foreign/serious pirate threats like the time we had 2 OC dreads and 2 scyllas in Colorado. They didn't give a crap, though, and we ended up blowing them up ourselves. I try to RP a lot if the other side is cooperating but sometimes not everyone is in the mood for it. Personally I've seen good things, flying with the XA on both my hatchling XA fighter and my .Allerton bomber. Perfect and full of RP 24/7, no. But there's no faction like that. I've basically had to expect the worst but hope for the best rp-wise on this server, until recently it was vice-versa and er.. Well, Mike remembers that conversation. :D