(07-09-2023, 09:30 AM)Darius Wrote: You're looking too much at the details while forgetting that the Coalition as a faction was established not by Discovery in terms of what it does but by Starlancer. It is mostly a complete import from that game, but it has also adapted itself somewhat well-ish, with maybe the exception of its playerbase.
That the counterargument to my statement is just a what-if is not something I am keen to entertain, as I only mentioned what the overall view of the group thus far seems be, that being of a very very questionable entity with even more questionable iconography.
We of course can go on for hours and hours listing what-ifs, but the fact of the matter is that this faction as it currently is does not fit either in the inRP universe, nor outside of it in the forums.
As a closing note on the Coalition shenanigans, they have been brought to the attention of the staff many times before with little actual success, so it is only logical then to assume that the emblems they use are fine, short of posting pictures of Lenin and Stalin all over the forums (those got deleted if I recall correctly).
What if in this case is a simple metaphor. Let me remind you, that the Coalition's symbol in Starlancer was not the red star. Some constituent states had it, apparently, but the Coalition's main coat of arms was the golden dragon slithering around a sword over a purple cross-like image. Mind also that Starlancer was released way before the ongoing war and so the symbol at that time was as innocuous as the Nazi swastika during the Munich Olympics. It is also equally entertaining how you defend the Coaliton being an import while the faction in question was accused exactly of the same thing - being an import. And I also do not concur with the statement it does not fit within the lore. C'mon, we have Crayter which is basically an import with a questionable place in disco and absolutely ridiculous socio-economic lore, we have Auxo, and we have the Coalition. Do they ideally fit the vibe and what exactly is this "vibe"? To some, it will be absolutely ok, and some purists would argue nomads should not be playable, lest having two NPC nomad factions.
Regardless, I do not really see an issue with either of what I or others mentioned above. This said, I am resting my case.
