(01-20-2014, 10:57 AM)Spud Wrote: It's also the place where 3years+ experienced lolsabru pilots can do cliché indistinguishable-between-chars merc/pirate RP, camp lawful bases in groups, pick off the lawfulnoob snubs knowing that its impossible for the lawfulnoob caps to hit them, and then brag about how awesome their skill, RP, originality, and sense of fairness is and about how totally bad the other side is and about how awesome their own lawful alts are in comparison.
That sort of thing happens Sirius-wide, you know. Liberty is not the only place infested with the good old "snarky/sarcastic cocky ace pilot" archetype.
Granted, it does catch more heat than others simply because of the player density.
(01-20-2014, 12:03 PM)Mímir Wrote: Having played mostly as an unlawful but also recently as a lawful person in Liberty I have to say I disagree. The ganking and "unsportsmanship", the one liners and so on, are equal on both the pirate/merc side and the LNS side
I've also played extensively on both sides of the law in Liberty, and I have to disagree. Since time immemorial, any "unsportsmanship" etc has always been mostly on the part of lawfuls. There are of course exceptions to this rule - one-liner Pirate ID bombers and such - but the vast majority of "improper" behaviour has always been from lawfuls.
This is pretty much, as I see it, because an awful lot of newer/inexperienced players like to play as Liberty lawfuls, and also because there are simply many, many more Liberty lawfuls than Liberty unlawfuls. That's just how it goes.
While I don't think it's fair to expect a newer player to Disco to abide by "unwritten rules" and such, I don't think you can realistically claim that any "unfairness" is evenly distributed between both sides of the coin.
The main problem is the lack of direction being given to these newer players by their more experienced lawful counterparts, whether that be people not being around to guide them or, worse, people just not caring and even inciting questionable behaviour.