I appreciate your ideas, but... our indies are really impossible to work with. I can produce mounds of screenshots where they mouth off for us trying to give them suggestions on what to do, even going to far as to call us factionlancer fascists alá Nooblet and they generally just join the Outcasts for the pvp.
Yes, I was here during .84 and I was in 101st high command at that time as well, so I know full well how it used to be back then, quite frankly I blame the current situation on two things.
1. The Corsairs seem to boycott us because -some- people in there takes this game way too seriously and seem to think that I'm out to get them.
2. A lack of Outcast storyline put into this mod, and generally having no progression from the muddy, vanilla, role for the Outcasts which is just plain retarded. We are NOT neo-columbian pirates / drug dealers.
My attempt of polishing up the roleplay of the Outcasts as a whole can be found here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=88561 and all comments you people may have on that piece of work can go in here, because I didn't write it for myself, I wrote it for the Outcasts and the 101st.
And just to get back to the "buffer" system between Tau 37 and Omicron Alpha idea... I can see why you think that's a good idea, however I must say that for the sake of balance, any buffer system needs to be placed between Tau 23 and Tau 37, as to prevent the entire Taus becoming IMG space which just screws up the system balance further.
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Quote:In 4.84 101st didn't have any problems ordering indies around, and if they disobey, punishing them. I think Eppyon was in charge back then, eh?
The admins has told the 101st that we cannot do that anymore. Blame the admin team who never visits the Taus and takes care of the lulwut problem, removes our rights to deal with the problem ourselves, and blame them for never looking at my faction right 5 requests.
(Oh, and back then we had three factions in the Outcasts who all helped each other in dealing with the indies... and now there is one.)