ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

[Varyag]

In the end, despite all of this, it will just turn into what happened before when factions thought to single out a particular Indy for "bad RP" or "misbehaving" The indy will ignore the faction decree, and the faction will respond just like they have in the past by pew pewing the Indy till they get tired of doing it and life goes on.

I unfortunately was the subject of the pew pewing about a year ago because I witnessed an outcast killed and was attacked by a faction cap that was the same guy as the outcast that was killed. He was upset that he was pew pewed by a gunboat and decided to take it out on my character that was just there. I killed the faction cap that attacked me and all hell broke loose. (3 faction dreads with a couple other ships attempted to KOS me the next day.) And they were ticked at me for supposed overkill.

The faction was angry and I was harassed for a few weeks. Everything died down and in the end and I just lost all respect for the faction in question because of all the lies and exaggerations that were set against me. We had a pretty good thing until that point.

What am I trying to say about all this? It will happen. The buddy system runs deep here and players will get picked on because a faction member is friends with so and so and someone decides to make an "official decree." This isnt just a problem with factions. I have seen a friend repeatedly banned on all accounts without as much as a note on the forums, just because he crossed a faction.

With the recent thing that found that Indies are on a level playing field with factions, things got better. This has the ability to change all this back.

In all honesty, I have met very few "rogue pew pewing" BS in my travels. Maybe I am on a good time-zone or maybe it is that there really isn't that much of an issue.

I have to also note that Xorias 2 cents should be taken very seriously in this matter as well. I agree with him completely.

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"I looked up and all I saw was green death"