Sabre- quite wrong at all points.
1: How one can avoid metagaming if he is not aware what is metagaming according to discovery terms? Also how to do it when the "friendly" community helps you so much by reporting everything possible because they like to see you sanctioned?
2: Wrong too- money can buy you ships, POBs, Mercs to fight your battles, trade factions to deliver goods to your POBs etc. Money can buy you also numbers if you offer fully set ships to new players if they join your group. The only thing that money cannot buy is PvP skill.
Believe me as faction leader if you sit on one medium active faction treasure with let say 40-60 shared ships and bunch of billions and bunch of active good people you can do funny things. I managed to extort even ridiculous ransoms- 500m montly payments to enter the system, 1 b payment not to destroy your base and similar things, and people paid because we had the means and power to do all of the said things in-game. I was there in more better times when the server was more active in general and it was a lot of fun.
3: If he manages to bring 20 players in the game at each occasion and even half of them learn the basics of PvPing they would be the dominant group in Discovery lowpopulation 24/7. I personally would find such thing great because it would change stuff around the place for good.
4: See point 1,
5: Sabre you does not spread your friends around and play without them?
May be it is fun to be in your own pack where you know the people? Games are for fun not for the satisfaction of the existing low populated groups.
Also Silver is quite right- but this is rather problem for veterans not for the new players.
Also Kudos for Joe for keeping LN so good for so long time.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)