complaining about a 3 minute blurb on the forums required before trashing an entire station? what a sad joke of "RP" that would be to drop this for the reasons ive heard. there was a time when anyone on Disco who wasn't aware of the forums was at a disadvantage for reasons like this exactly, and rightly so! If you wanted to be a part of the full Disco experience you needed to actually bother to give a **** with mildly important things like uhhh.. rules? and the smallest expectation of RP.
...Nobody would bother to play soccer with noobs if those new players werent willing to learn the actual rules of the game, because it wouldn't be fun anymore, and it wouldn't be "soccer" . *cough* *cough*
but i digress, i think this is another argument we're blowing up because without realizing it we're trying to argue over a set of rules that apply to two different sets of players, RP and ooRP. you cant expect to make rules that will work for both. however, there are reasons this 3 minute forum crap will work for both:
1. troll seiges on ooRP bases are not in any way difficult to organize, as we've all seen. so if a station is really so ooRP.. like built over a JG overnight, it shouldn't be a problem for long. requiring some forum post is not gonna delay the inevitable gank for long, in fact making such a post like "this lolstation is lol and being engaged" will probably draw you in some extra support for your siege from other players who bother to read.
2. troll seiges on RP bases are not in any way difficult to organize, as we've all seen. requiring some documentation sifts out a few morons, and later gives us someone (or group) to hold responsible for the attack. then any necessary RP or rule issues can be sorted out, both sides know what and who they are dealing with.
3. without a rule like this we will allow for any sort of attack to take place on bases without warning creating an easy window for people to make quick sneak attacks, which can be ooRP. However it is a widely-known fact of human nature that there will always be folks willing to bend the rules a bit to get an advantage, so someone here will no doubt be taking advantage of any window we leave open, thus reducing the gameplay quality for everyone else. by making a sneak attack something you cant do without a forum post (that then fingers you as the attacker), you make it possible to punish those who would just quietly sneak in and try to pull some pew bull. as it stands now its too easy to pull an ooRP attack quietly and then avoid any real retribution.. making a forum post a requirement removes the ability for an ooRP attack to happen so easily within the rules*
*if that sounds funny, it should. but the way the rules are now it is now its very, very, very difficult to actually bring any justice to ooRP sneak base attacks. Even if you manage to document the attack, you have to sort through which folks might actually have RP roles/reason to be there, and people can throw out any sort of stupid bull**** since there isn't actual procedure for such an attack right now. As it stands now, most of these ooRP attackers can get off the hook absurdly easily, hence the need for a simple rule requiring three minutes of effort.
on a complete side note for those who enjoy excess reading: if anybody still really thinks that this server will suffer by having a few of RP rules-- and i mean this is the smallest and simplest of RP requirements regarding the LARGEST investment in the game-- then i'm sorry but you're completely mistaken. The fact that this is an decade-old game means its only played because folks either have a history with FL, or because it offers something UNIQUE. If we continue to let it be a sandbox for pews, most people--especially new ones-- wont see it as having anything better to offer. There are far better graphics/games that offer endless pew so without RP, or some sort of history/nostalgia with Disco, there is sadly absolutely no reason for people to stick around. We've all seen the numbers dip, the peak bein' when Disco had some RP, wars, and interesting things actually going on and not just existing in the background to create a backdrop for shooting at crap. The least we can do is make it so that the new exciting things we add to the server have some sort of RP ties and requirements, otherwise it is for sure going to completely fade away.
pleeeeeeaaase for the community's sake do not put a stop to the addition of the smallest bit of some RP rules, especially regarding PoB's. These are the "new caps", the big-ticket item now, and just like we used to make folks register Caps before it all got outta hand, we gotta (forcibly or not) tie some RP into these bases or it simply wont permeate.
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[5:57:11 PM] InfernalTater (Lewis) [Formerly TLI-Inferno]:meanwhile, Aces 'I don't always miss my destinations, but when I do, I'm on the other side of house space.'