Future Wars?

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But I mean how do you decide who gains a planet? It's a RP server, so PvP is irrelevant - and when you let player RP impact heavy consequences people will just scheme, circlejerk and lobby to protect their assets blindly

Well I've seen this argument but I don't think it would be so bad. The catch is to make it strictly adhere to a common system that each side must follow equally.

So for a planet, I would say whatever it is, something should just be chosen and rolled with. So they could place a base next to the planet, or one adjacent to a planet per challenging faction, and first to eliminate wins. The details can be worked out, but anything would do.

Another way would be to place a dockable point on the planet and let each side compete to deliver supplies. Then its just a game of blockading each other. Once a period of time for the event is up, winner takes, or keeps the planet under their IFF.

Everyone says what we do on the server is irrelevant but that makes no sense to me. If we just designate a system of what will be the challenge, we could use the pvp to drive many changes. Why couldn't it be RP'd that a faction attacked another and drove them off in a battle or series of battles? If a faction does have a base by a planet to stake a claim on it and a team sieges it, how is it different than a POB siege? We RP around our involvement in those. At least factions would have open possibilities to decide to try to work on, and use to recruit.

So we should use the pvp for stuff. It can be made fair enough that after some point, circle jerks may form but what happens in game will determine who wins. And thats if there is the drive. Some factions may go relatively unchallenged over territory, and some places may be continuously fought over, changing hands back and forth all the time. I still think that choosing a system and setting it up so everyone knows whats going on in advance would allow players to have more to do outside of scheduled events.

At this point there are several unlawful factions that (if people prefer isolated conflicts) could stand to have a system to challenge house governments for control of planets and major stations like shipyards. When have the Blood Dragons ever tried to capture Planet Kyushu? Or why haven't the Rogues tried establishing their own territory on Pittsburg? Could Auxo siege Borneo? Capture Pecos? Or capture Curacau to start its own transhumanist enclave?

My main argument aside from the events generating activity, is that the ongoing ability to work on things to earn to make those moves is exactly a feature to a game that attracts players for more immersive involvement. Meaning anyone can find arcade space shooters in today's age but an RP space shooter where factions can try to capture planets and/or star systems is a unique hook to playing here.

Even Gaia is a perfect example. No one flocks to the Molly's or Gaians or the Maquis because there's little to do. I say let the factions have a challenge FR so if people want to claim Gaia, they choose an ID and go to work. If no one cares, they gain easily, but otherwise others will probably counter challenge before long (or simply try slowing them down). Instead of seeing it as work, that should be seen as the point, as the game we should be playing! Who cares who controls the planet, use it to keep activity up 24/7, along with other things. That way if a faction I don't like winds up in control, I can find the right outlet to fight back in-game. If its an earnable faction right or part of the rules, a faction will only wind up winning for the long term once they've won a series of victories. That all sounds like plenty to RP around to me!