ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Other than one minor comment, I've pretty well kept my mouth shut here, if simply because my faction leader ... you know, one of those evil, twisted baby-eaters that obviously can't be trusted with a sharp knife, let alone a sharp wit ... asked us to not post if possible.

Well, based upon what Dieter has just said, I'm going to open up now and give my two cents worth.

Right 5? Darned right I support Right 5.

However, if you guys want to NOT let us have any control over who has our battleships - then I better NOT hear ANY complaining, whining, moaning, or other words of aggravation when:

The capwhore bounty hunter indies come in and rape Crete.

The capwhore Corsairs indies come in and rape Malta.

The capwhore Liberty navy indies come in and rape Hamburg.

The capwhore Order indies come in and ...

You get where I'm going with this? Can and DO things like this happen now? Sound VAGUELY familiar to any of you? I certain that there have NEVER been any complaints about an unofficial faction coming in and making 2 or 3 raids per day with battleships against their 'enemies' and there have NEVER been ANY complaints whatsoever about how new players here come out with big ships and have no clue - don't speak english and don't care to learn, or to really follow our rules. But we can't restrict what they can buy - nope, that would be a BAD thing, because it would restrict their role-play.

Yeah, right...

What role play?

I'm serious. Those of you who are complaining the loudest about the 'right's of indies on here. You're in the minority of indie players. You actually role play, and you're also active in the forums. You actually give a damn about this spaceship game.

Guess what? So do those of us in the factions.

There are specific reasons WHY Athenian, Tic, Zig, Stoat, Zapp, Dean, (Edit - sorry, forgot Jinx) and I, are the BHG Guildmasters - and why we merged the S/D and the Core into the BHG| / BHG|Core. A primary objective was to prevent another debacle such as we had with the DW, and the wonderful and lovely name that they gave bounty hunters. Another primary objective was to make bounty hunting a reputable occupation on the server for a faction, AND to provide a certain amount of control so that the lolcaps would be answerable to someone. We're not preventing anyone who has the proper ID and IFF from buying our ships - and unlike many factions, it really takes a minimal amount of server posting to become a member of the BHG| / BHG|Core. BUT - if you make that your tag, then we damned well expect you to follow our and the server rules - and to listen to those of us who have been in the faction since before it's inception.

Quite frankly, the complaining about 'restrictions' on battleships sounds incredibly childish - and churlish, too. If you're that afraid of misconduct by the faction leaders - look at how many of them are already either Admins or forum moderators. Do we disagree with these people at times? Sure. But on the whole, do they do a good job of running the day to day operations here? Damned straight they do - and with very little thanks.

I agree with Dieter - I find a lot of the comments made by a few posters to be personal attacks on their integrity and their abilities. If you feel your feet being pinched, that's probably because that shoe fits awfully tight.

I disagree with Dieter in that I don't think Right 5 should be a dead issue. Certainly it's been divisive. But you know what? You guys have also been complaining, moaning, and whining about why bother going official? After all, what could POSSIBLY be a reason why you would want to do so? Well, here's a darned good reason. Rights 1 and 4 already exist anyway. Right 2 - it should exist, and if everyone is RP'ing properly, then effectively it already does. Right 3 - that's just a bone thrown back to the people that put the time and effort into making it work.

So that leaves Right 5. The minor detail that people aren't willing to give it a 90 day trial. 3 months. Is that such an incredibly long time? Nope. Is that a SERIOUS reward for being an official faction, giving the official faction some rights and powers, for having come up with both a good faction application, AND for maintaining active membership? Yes - and THAT makes it worth something to have an official faction on here.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.