PETITION: Nerf NPCs

[Magoo!]

First order of business - sweet son of a kitten, this is still raging?

Second, Mjolnir, you're my hero. I concurr with everything you've said thus far and wont bother these other people with reiterations. Baltar is also loved.

Now then...

Yep - I'm all for nerfing them.


Reasons why? They are tedious anyway - They behave in ways that are completely stupid most of the time. It is extremely frustrating to have to waste good possible Role playing time on NPCs which take an insane amout of time to kill.

Oh yes. We dropped SP, why not make a mandantory 'vaccine' for all new citizens of Sirius that causes the immune system to attack your motor nerves and cerebellum (please, don't correct my anatomy, it'll just make you look like you've run out of counter-points). That was a generalized "you". Anyways, if any NPC besides a FL takes you "So long to kill, *siiiggh*" then I recommend a revisitation to learning how to fly. A trigger helps this cause as well.

For being so, "OMGRP!" why the deuce are we wanting to kill the other 99.98% of our lovely little alcove here? They do everything that players do. They disrupt you, they kill you, they put shields on their caps and they even do you the courtesy of flying in predictable patterns and shooting less than you! The only thing they don't do is talk, and marvelously, thats because they're blocks of code! Excuse the lolwutting, but wtf guys?

If a trader gets disrupted, he's in House space theoretically... Otherwise he's using Nomad lanes and deserves to die (or Gallian lanes). If you honestly get killed trying to pay a tax by a pair or quartet of Bloodhounds, I really must question whether or not these 60-some votes for "YUSLUL!" are flying Rhino's during their outings. "Oh... Oh em jeh... Hai, can u turn down ur Drails pl0x? Kthnxbai". I've lost faith in this community if thats the case.

Shields on caps, alright - drop those. Whatever.
Train CD's, hey, if the hundred plus people don't want their monotonous trade routes interrepted as if *gasp* a player were doing it, whatever - I can at least dodge, weave, and get away without cruiser if I need to. Kill that too.

Or if you're trying to RP on the RP server? Or you know, mine? Or if you're being pirated?

RP - fantastic. Literacy has projected the intent of technology once again.
Mine - omg, ppl wantz to steel ur valuable minerals?!
Being pirated - This wont solve the problem. They'll still annoy you if players try to steal your money. I once again raise the point of Rhino flights through major trade routes.

Just flew my BH dessie from Delta to O-56 (scrapping it and getting a Manta, I'm fed up of it sitting around, eating all my cash and not doing anything...), and, as soon as I jumped from 41 to 15, I had about 8 Corsairs of varying types on me.)

Need I point out the irony in this statement and the argument of the side he supports? Eight player Corsairs can kill you, heck even three Nephthys' killed one of you. Incidentally, it makes sense that (RP in mind, since we are the epitomy of RP here at Disco) "other people" could do the same.

Tis good RP to dock camp Toledo in a BH cap and rape anything that undocks? Oh, goodiee...

This only compounds the irony above. You guys have been doing that for the last year and a half.:dry:

Anyways, I wont bother bringing up the fact that the Order gets cap-whored every day, be they by a single BH Dessie and 2 Barracuda's patrolling, or by a Nomad GB (though I haven't seen one in a while) or any other group that's been there for the last TWO YEARS I've played this game. Although I suppose I just did.

Crikey, I've found no legitimate reason in all of this rediculous thread besides, "Oh, well golly... See, it'd sure make my life awful swell. And more convenient! Oh me oh my, think of how much power trading (replace with the appropriate action) I could get done in the extra four minutes of my escape!"

This would probably be one of the most ooRP decisions this community could make.

/condescension