Depends on how you look at it.There are bright moments and there are dark ones.But can you really avoid pvp that much no matter how you try you just have a big red crosshair on your head which really not all can avoid
If you'll speak with Zenon, you'll find that we had quite a good RP session yesterday. One that didn't involve shooting at all. And you know what I was thinking through the whole thing? "I should honestly be shooting this Oracle. Flies a Nomad ship, talks like a Nomad, Nomad enough for me."
So tell me. What would the proper in-RP response to a nomad in New York be? "State your intentions here!" is definitely not it. "Hmm, I think I'll just let you sit there and talk." is also very OoRP. "Please leave, Nomad." is laughable. Have people forgotten that this is an alien species that all of humanity is at war with? The Nomad War wasn't that far in the past, and even though they're not as much of a large-scale threat now, it's not like we're gonna get all nicey-nice with them. They practically trashed Rheinland, destroyed a good number of ships from all the other Houses, as well as Freeport 7. I would imagine the sentiment of "The only good alien is a dead alien" is still quite strong no matter where you go.
And this, folks, is one of the major problems I have with my LSF character. What is a good RP response that does not reek of PvPwhoring? Anyone? Please? Maybe I should just OOC tell them "//Imagine me shooting at you now."
Quote:Here's a question to the Oracles: why should we treat one of your nomad morphs in New York any differently than a Keeper light fighter?
You shouldnt. Before I handed the faction over to Maskage, I thought I had explained very clearly that 'ascension' (becoming a nomad morph) was not something that should be at all common in the Oracles. It was meant to be reserved for only a handful of ships at most, and those individuals would be more closely linked with the keepers / nomads than the rest of humanity.
Ascended / nomad morph Oracles are meant to be the connection between the Oracles and the Keepers, while the rest of the Oracles are meant to be the connection between the Oracles and Humanity. That's why there was, originally, such a heavy emphasis on Oracle players using civilian ships and RP'ing as human, not as infected or as nomads.
Hawkwings, it's not like entire humanity wants them wiped out. Far from. Sure they got a lot of enemies, but not everyone at it. A lot simply don't care since they weren't involved in the House crisis, and few likely only benefited from that chaos, so they care even less. It ain't that black and white there if you think and look past comics type "heroes versus villains" simplification approach. Freelancer is mostly about "gray roles", sure there are individuals which sway into good and some into bad type of roles, but overall many characters can easily portray themselves as good despite being the opposite and vice versa.
Correct, on my nomad morph I do not expect to be treated any differently than a keeper LF hovering ominously just out of sensor range. I have engaged humans to assist Keepers/Wild in the past. As well, I did have long RP sessions with both an LSF (hawkwings I presume) and a SCRA. What I said ultimately always came down to "You are human, therefore you must die, go jump in the sun".
The plan is to keep as few ascendants/prophets at one time as possible, with many human followers. however that has become somewhat unbalanced because of non oracle trial morphs that want to join us. If we worship them, how could we refuse looking after their young? Its really not fair to the followers that want to work their way up, but it would be just as bad to ask them to drop what they've done so far and start from the beginning.
I think for now, we will stop accepting trial characters as oracles, and just RP with them as they are. Meaning we currently have 3 ascendants and 6 followers. one ascendant is a "learner" formerly known as Unknown.Biomass, and another is a hybrid who has written a fairly satisfactory RP story about his ascension already. I am also working on expanding my own RP story from the original that led up to the prophet stage.
One part of earning the next level will be via writing a RP life story/biography of one's character and their process of joining/ascension.
For those who want you dead sometimes politics ain't the reason there can be a lot.Like you killed my family you ever simple as that but we are skipping the subject now....this is not about pvp whoaring this is about oracles
Don't know if you know this, if you do, just a friendly reminder. Flying the Nomad Morph claiming to be a Nomad does not give you the same 'kill'm all!' rights the Keepers have. Just reminding.
Yup, and a lot of people don't seem to know that. namely the ones who don't have the ID themselves. Thats why they get the impression that were trying to chill and have a friendly chat with humans. Its not because we don't want to shoot you, its because the ID says we cant.
' Wrote:Hawkwings, it's not like entire humanity wants them wiped out. Far from. Sure they got a lot of enemies, but not everyone at it. A lot simply don't care since they weren't involved in the House crisis, and few likely only benefited from that chaos, so they care even less. It ain't that black and white there if you think and look past comics type "heroes versus villains" simplification approach. Freelancer is mostly about "gray roles", sure there are individuals which sway into good and some into bad type of roles, but overall many characters can easily portray themselves as good despite being the opposite and vice versa.
Off the top of my head, I think only the Outcasts might be neutral to the Nomads, and that's very tenuous at best. This is excluding Wilde and Keepers of course. So pretty much all the factions in Sirius want the nomads dead. Seriously, think about it. There is no real-world comparison for the Nomads. They are an alien species with the goal of exterminating the human race. I mean, the closest you might get is some country waging a war of genocide against another country, but both factions are still human.
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