*The following is only opinion and what I have heard. Care to tell me i'm wrong, too bad, I won't listen. I'm tired of this. Time to take a stand.*
Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a vile cancer that has swept up uppon us. A disease, so profound, that is will take everything about the Discovery Modification and direct it towards its own dastardly ends. This plauge is a Clan War.
At first it was only the AW. They came on, and became a branch of a larger clan for Mech Warrior 2, the WA. It was all well and good, and save a few problems that have long since passed, we have been fine with the AW.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, enter's CUFF from stage left. CUFF apparently followed the AW here, and not content with fighting them in just one game, decided to spawn more offspring to fight them in this one as well. So, CUFF comes on, talks big, makes rude grestures, spits in just about everyone's face, and generaly makes an ass of themselfs.
I'm sorry, himself. I have only ever seen ONE origonal CUFF member, and that is ARC. Any others seem to be new to Freelancer in general, or to Discovery, or in one case joined their ranks after being kicked out of the AW.
So, CUFF is here. They run, are cowardly, behave nasty to AW and any allies they have, and are making increasingly idiotic threats and claims, such as truly being in controll of the WA. One would think the man (If indeed he is a man) making such claims was lobotomized, or something had taken hold of him and was eating his rational mind away like ice under a hot water faucet.
I submit, to my peers, a small vision of the future. This will spread. More actuall CUFF members will come online, and behave much the same way. The WA will send reinforcements, and soon the population of the server will consist of 49% AW, 49% CUFF, and a lowly 2% of everyone else.
Discovery will not be known for it's new content. It will not be known for it's Role Play. It will not be known for it's unique plot, it's new systems, it's glorius additions.
It will be known, simply as a CUFF/WA battleground.
I will not stand for this. I will be the first to admit that it is good to have some conflict. It gives us a purpose for wanting to better ourselfs. To find new weapon systems. To try new tactics. THIS conflict will bring nothing but bickering, flaming, and it will ruin Discovery's reputation.
The very center of this cancer is the AW. But we need not delve that deep. We can wipe this away as if it were nothing more then a thin film of scum. The answer is simple.
Either a high-ranking member of CUFF comes out publicly and apologises for the nigh-unforgivable behavior of his or her subordinates, or we cast out CUFF.
Leave no place for them to hide. Let no player lift a finger to help them. Ignore them, and let the AW tear them to shreads. Indeed, if you feel the need FIGHT them! But never help them. They have shown no honor, no respect, no remorse, and no sanity. They are worthy of neither pitty or mercy, and certainly not respect.
My friends, this cancer is small now, but it will grow. Indeed, it already is. If we do not act, it shall consume us. I do not want to see this representation of days of work and toil, this great mod, our Freelancer HOME to be ruined by another clan, who can't even seem to decide when they started!
I, personaly, will do nothing to help CUFF. I will play my part as it is in the server, but they will get no help from me. I ask you, my fellow Discovery players, to do the same.
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
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