A deliberation on player-driven RP and dev/admin intervention

[Thyrzul]

Comparing Bering with Cassini or Vespucci is like comparing apples with oranges, doesn't create a really valid arguement. You can compare Bering with Hudson, Kepler, Galileo, Magellan, Cortez. But then you don't see Ames getting lost to Xenos either, the only similar thing you can find is the loss of Libertonian/neutral control over Magellan, that however is not the result of mere neglection and leaving it to unlawfuls, it wasn't taken by Rogues or Hackers either, but through the assault of a hostile house navy. Not really comparable either.

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[SnakThree]

Unlike most players, developers are supposed to take into according by gameplay consequences of major changes. Anticipating problems with changing IFF and impact it can have is not hard and must be done. But smaller player driven changes has occured in the past without adding anything to explain long lasting breakaway from lore that leaves some factions pondering what the heck happened and how to proceed further

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[Enkidu]

The Navy is not some unstoppable Juggernaut that can ruin the story development for the entire independent worlds, my lads.

Edit: Ain't nothing like retroactive c o m p l a i n i n g

[Tabris]

Just going to put this out here: There is no guarantee that the IFF will remain that way. Depending on the actions taken by players/factions it is subject to change. That's all I can say on that for now. So in short: RP with it, react to it IRPly and take actions IRPly. ^_^

[Thyrzul]

The Navy is not some unstoppable bigthiccdicc that can ruin the story development for the entire independent worlds, my lads.

Edit: Ain't nothing like retroactive c o m p l a i n i n g

If anyone, I understand it is easy and comfortable saying that as the leader of the underdog revolutionary faction, but I'm pretty sure things don't/shouldn't work just like that.

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[Chuba]

so if a big force of LSF / LN or whatever else sieges FP2, will it be given back to zoners or can LSF take it? «:

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[SnakThree]

The Navy is not some unstoppable bigthiccdicc that can ruin the story development for the entire independent worlds, my lads.

Edit: Ain't nothing like retroactive c o m p l a i n i n g

So like feedback about ganks?..

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[Alley]

I wish the Delta event went up to completion, it was a great thing for everyone involved. As an admin when it happened, it was a massive leap of faith on our end but also unprecedented to let the community decide their own fate in events that could potentially have a massive impact on the mod and with absolutely no idea of what would come next.

Everyone learned a lot from it as it was also the first time an event supported a player driven movement instead of the opposite. The response was overwhelmingly positive with the community using it as a mean to boost their ongoing roleplay with almost no bound given aside of a few safety nets to prevent things from going full stupid. These nets were never reached as both Core and Zoners have been very professional and level-headed after the initial drama.

Neither the dev team or the admin team were ready for something of this scale and unprecedented in lore volatility. It was a great and fun experience and I'll always have fond memories of it.

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Alley was right.

[Enkidu]

so if a big force of LSF / LN or whatever else sieges FP2, will it be given back to zoners or can LSF take it? «:

Yeah, and do some RP too, for sure!

But there has to be serious RP effort put in.

[Tabris]

so if a big force of LSF / LN or whatever else sieges FP2, will it be given back to zoners or can LSF take it? «:

Depends on what happens. How much resistance you get from the owners and 'locals' in addition to what happens in other theaters that require Liberty's manpower.