ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

[Rudo]

Regarding the below:

Please consider that many "Junkers"--especially those docking oorp and the like--are simply financial accounts and not actual faction players. Many like to smuggle and choose Junkers as they are ubiquitous. This is a case of poor players. Not a reason to embargo Junker rp in an entire house. We dealt with the same thing with PVP Bounty Hunters, indie pirates, Dragon battleships, KNF battleships and bounty hunter battleships camping Yanagi and blowing us away all the time. We never asked for "control of Sigma 13" from the admins or demanded certain ships/factions not be allowed there. Even though they particularly affected our very specific rp there quite negatively and with very bad play and frequent oorp behavior.

You don't eliminate a right to correct a wrong.

This is again, valid. Unfortunately as we are in fact the vanguard of the faction, we are looked to to provide the example. In the Yanagi Nightmare days I did something foolish and purchased an RPC to chase the lolcaps away with. Within the week there were at least four other RPCs all doing what I did, with a much shakier grasp on what the intention of the ship was.

People didn't ask what the ship was for, they just saw 'ooh, official junker cap with justifiable RP, I'll get one too and not bother with decent RP or holding back fire, as they're not the boss of me'. I ditched the cap within the week.

Using that example; I'm not interested in embargoing the good to keep out the bad, that generally doesn't work and just penalizes ourselves. I liked that cruiser. But limiting Kusari exposure lends weight to the occasions where Junkers do pop in.

The request made of us as core players in this faction might seem like a bit much; especially considering old grudges and conflicting ideologies, but what harm is there in cooperating however we may? Also, without policing the independents through force and without providing the example, what can we do fulfill this request?

Leading by example is, unfortunately, one of the only options that doesn't lead to angry trial-by-forums and sanction posts. I've been asking the Congress members to make concessions on fronts they should have much more freedom on, and to be better roleplayers with much more PVP restraint than any unlawful has any right to be.

But the example is provided, to those that want to follow it.


...I don't know where I'm going with this. I guess I'm just proud of what's been done with the faction by those in it, and just more to see what's being done with Junker RP and to work with that, rather than just using the IFF as a piggy bank.

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