I like the nomads now they are fun and great to interact with.
All my experiences thus far have been positive. Yes sure they tried to cloak jump me but I formed with a NPC BS anticipating the decloak death maneuvers that were too come.
oh yeah, and another thing. IMMO Huggie just brought the old k'hara' atmosphere. i can feel it - something within this faction was changed, and this changes leads to something good (good for Nomads). keep it up!
Unfortunately, I'm coming here with heavy criticism. I sincerely hope that it will not offend anyone, but I think that it needs to be taken in consideration.
Yesterday, me and my friend (we were in an Aquilon carrier and a brand new Nephilim colony ship respectively) were flying from a mission and encountered four Nomads, one of them was a Marduk (K'Hara|Hecate), others were indie Nammu named Kes'Khan (who is, as we were told before, is the "inrp personal guardian of Hecate") and two smaller ships which we did not identify.
[28.01.2016 18:29:11] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: Child's play. *spits*
[28.01.2016 18:29:24] Pravda|TRK-Petr.Velikiy: Too easy.
[28.01.2016 18:30:08] Erato: ***..'Yours' (rage)...harvest 'ours'...***
[28.01.2016 18:30:36] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: Seems that it is attacking.
[28.01.2016 18:30:48] Erato: ***...'Yours' shall *know* ~judgement~...***
[28.01.2016 18:31:08] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...Darkness... must be... lighted...***
[28.01.2016 18:31:13] Aki'tour: **Ours...must..protect..(honor)..(duty)..defeat..hostiles..**
[28.01.2016 18:32:04] Pravda|TRK-Petr.Velikiy: Kapitan, I think they want to kill us.
[28.01.2016 18:32:19] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: Like always they do.
[28.01.2016 18:32:19] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...(Rage)...***
[28.01.2016 18:32:29] Kes'Khan: *. -Determinate-.*
[28.01.2016 18:32:46] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...Darkness... is ~consuming~... place among... heat...***
[28.01.2016 18:32:47] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: They still didn't overcome their predatory instincts.
[28.01.2016 18:33:17] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...'Theirs'... knowledge... will fail 'them'... once...***
[28.01.2016 18:33:57] Erato: ***...(rage)...***
[28.01.2016 18:34:16] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...Purify... 'Dark Ones'...***
[28.01.2016 18:34:18] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: Like always they rage. Nothing unusual.
[28.01.2016 18:34:27] Kes'Khan: *. 'Ours'
[28.01.2016 18:34:37] Kes'Khan: -shall-
[28.01.2016 18:34:45] Kes'Khan: determinate
[28.01.2016 18:34:51] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: We thought that they were more advanced in something except weapons.
[28.01.2016 18:34:54] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...'This one'... will bring Light...***
[28.01.2016 18:34:56] Kes'Khan: 'Yours' (anger).*
[28.01.2016 18:35:01] Aki'tour: *...ours...(curious)...'study'..*
[28.01.2016 18:35:06] Aki'tour: *....Ours...(anger)...'must'..perish...*
[28.01.2016 18:36:19] K'Hara|Hecate: ***...(Rage)...***
[28.01.2016 18:36:29] Death: Kes'Khan was put out of action by Pravda|TRK-Petr.Velikiy (Gun).
[28.01.2016 18:38:15] Death: K'Hara|Hecate was put out of action by Pravda|TRK-Petr.Velikiy (Gun).
[28.01.2016 18:38:20] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: This will teach them a lesson.
[28.01.2016 18:38:40] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: Time to kill smaller ones.
[28.01.2016 18:38:49] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: All power to Solaris weapons.
[28.01.2016 18:39:02] Pravda|TRK-Petr.Velikiy: Roger, Kapitan.
[28.01.2016 18:39:58] Pravda|TARKR-Kuznetsov: Gumilev: Out of range. Okay, we're moving off for repairs.
At first, their RP was very questionable. The Nomads are species with two million year history at least, which supposes that they are highly evolved, sapient beyond that humans can understand, thus being ultimately superior over "darklings", "monkeys" and such. Contrary to this, in our 'meeting', the Nomads (and first of all, the member of official K'Hara| faction) generally displayed simple hate and rage, which is supposed to be a behavior of species yet to become sentient or ones which accomplished it just recently (even accounting that we had just finished a 42-level mission against Nomads, the K'Hara could express the cause of their rage a little better), with only minor desire to get some knowledge. In some way, they got it: now they know how they shall not fight. I suggest to review the RP which leads to engagement, and make it at least a little more logical, a little beyond simple rage, or this will seriously 'put down' the Nomads, will break that unique sense of deadliness and total superiority which the old K'Hara had.
Their behavior on the battlefield was, too, not the best one. At first, we were unpleasantly surprised by that fact that the Nomads now consider as normal to just write ***(Rage)*** and then immediately start shooting, without giving any time to response, let alone sufficient time. While we were writing proper engagement notice, they downed the shield of our Nephilim completely and lowered it's hull to about 80%. Thus, we were forced to simply close the chat box and answer with fire instead in order to be not destroyed just there and then. We do not think that this behavior of Nomads is acceptable, because it is ruinous for roleplay encounters as a whole.
The battle's flow was also poor. I have to admit that the Nammu gunboat had acquired a strategically good position, high up in the rear hemisphere of my friend's Nephilim, but after this the gunboat was simply sitting and firing upon us without any maneuvers, oblivious to the fact that two capital ships are turning towards it. As a predictable result, Kes'Khan ate six Mortars in a row and was catapulted to Iota in mere seconds. The snubs — whatever they were, I didn't look — instead of trying to support the Hecate somehow, they just ran away as soon as business began to smell with gunpowder. The Marduk itself made a big mistake: it began to close the distance, and as a result, it was positioned sidewards to Nephilim and backwards to me. So, the Marduk was quickly finished, taking fire from point blank range, despite it was constantly repairing and the Nephilim had no batteries and a little portion of nanobots. In essence, the K'Hara lost in a 4v2 battle, while having the most imbalanced battleship in game on their side, against an Aquilon with PvE/antisnub setup and a Nephilim player whose all experience in flying capital ships is a few hours of shooting NPCs. More practice in Connecticut would be very, very useful.
I hope that this is not taken offensively by anyone involved and that this will help to restore the good old K'Hara faction.
(01-29-2016, 07:06 PM)Cheetah Wrote: Their behavior on the battlefield was, too, not the best one. At first, we were unpleasantly surprised by that fact that the Nomads now consider as normal to just write ***(Rage)*** and then immediately start shooting, without giving any time to response, let alone sufficient time.
It is quite funny, taking into consideration I was told some time ago that engagement notice in case of two hostile players/factions is optional and you can be fired at without it - with only requirement being at least two lines of roleplay. I think the paragraph prior that clearly states it was more than just few lines of roleplay.
Edit: No, I'm not in K'hara. I'm pointing out what I was told in a thread which ceased to exist (rollback).
(01-29-2016, 07:06 PM)Cheetah Wrote:
The battle's flow was also poor. I have to admit that the Nammu gunboat had acquired a strategically good position, high up in the rear hemisphere of my friend's Nephilim, but after this the gunboat was simply sitting and firing upon us without any maneuvers, oblivious to the fact that two capital ships are turning towards it. As a predictable result, Kes'Khan ate six Mortars in a row and was catapulted to Iota in mere seconds. The snubs — whatever they were, I didn't look — instead of trying to support the Hecate somehow, they just ran away as soon as business began to smell with gunpowder.
— Cheetah
I honestly don't understand why you're actually judging a PvP skill of an indie Nomad here in the K'Hara Feedback thread.
Cheetah, are you actually trying to give feedback on PvP tactics or the actual RP of it? If It's PvP then buzz off, it's not worth a post in a feedback thread.
While the RP I see is little if not even practically an easy way out, you still had 2min 46sec of time after the first line before all four ships were accounted for. I don't know how you couldn't be prepared for something.
Plus, you're in a fictional world. Highly evolved, sapient or not. Instincts are instincts.
Furthermore, the word sapient does indeed mean wise, but it can also mean attempting to appear wise.
Though, solely speaking on your response time. Yes, sure. That might have been unintentional, but I don't know much else as I wasn't in the fight.
Oh and also, I only count 3 instances of them just purely typing one word in an emotion. Not the worst I've seen.
And one last thing.
I don't know what "good old K'Hara" you keep on mentioning.
This faction went through a leadership change not too long ago, and has been more or less sporadically active for a whole year.
Some await to see what we can do when the Nomicron update hits, some just simply don't log always due to personal reasons.