' Wrote:Or have I missed the genuine adevertisement strategy behind this flashing announcement? Hey, I would understand that - using the Zoner branding where people are conditioned to immediately jump on it is reasonable to get the own message through at once ;-)
Sure, there is always the possibility that popular patterns can make you look trendy. Don't know though, fashion is not my stuff.
Also, it is disturbing that I am not informed about any such conspiracy, for two reasons of course:
1. I am missing the "obvious fun"
2. Not being part of a Zoner Conspiracy would really make me feel bad
*sigh*
' Wrote:i have not followed the molly / zoner stuff much - and forgive me, i don t know the background reasons for it...
but - when i read that the mollys have a zoner juggernaut - i was simply and utterly speechless.
again forgive me for that comparison - but it felt as if OSI had just announced that they aquired a Marduk nomad battleship.
but i am almost certain that my surprise comes from the ignorance of knowing sufficiently enough about the deal / RP.
[or maybe you just made a joke about mollys having a juggernaut]
other than that - if you put "zoner conspiracy" into the subtitle - it might have been beneficial to address it in your OP, too.
if you wished to keep it a secret though ( after all - you don t go prance around about having bribed someone ) - you might not have put it into a public headline. ( that is - if its a RP deal ..and you only wish to address it ooc for transparency sake, informing the factions might have been sufficient )
putting it into the title but not addressing it looked a bit like putting "zoner, zoner, zoner, zoner" into the title which is only supposed to make you look smart somehow ... or alternatively, you can put "yalalalalala" into the title - which has about as much content.
This is why we joke about Zoner conspiracies.
The only conspiracy the rather independent and-not-at-all devious Zoners could come up with is a conspiracy to suck the fun out of Disco by Q_Q whenever someone gets it up to shoot at them.
Thus, it is funny to imagine a Zoner conspiracy.
' Wrote:The Mollies and BMM are enemies, its like an Outcasts protecting a Corsair from an Outcast because he just pirated him. Seriously, the BMM are the problem, if the Mollies could force them out of Dublin, the BAF would follow. The whole point is the liberation of Dublin, not to see how many different BMM miners will pay you 2 million so they can sit in safety while you attack any other mollies who come near.
Yes. Yes Yes. The other day i had a Molly gunboat captain attack me for destroying a hegemon beacuse it was his friend.
I was speechless. And normally you can't get me to shut up.
The whole "armistice" thing and the dropping of the bounties on BMM really threw off the whole Molly faction, reducing and polarizing it.
I wait for the day i can fly through space vaporizing every fat ugly indecent ore-stealing Hege i see with two preset lines and a SNAC.
And then of course there's that fool flying around in a kusari ship pirating zoners and junkers as well.
You already got Scyllas in system where are no other caps except BAF, and your Garda is "assisting BAF" all the time.
Corsair Elders don't allow to bring Osirises there.
Gaians have no capital ships.
Suddenly, I see no reason for Mollies to have anything bigger then the gunboat, balance-wise.
I assure you, all our mining practices are 100% green. Or.. not planetside anyway. Because we don't have a planet.
Scylla is a very effective way to fight Ahoudari pirates. Funny indie legates and KNF battleships also show up on occaision. Barghest's better for that job though.
For the last few months the only Molly that avoided shooting me was the one I told about difference between Vanilla and Discovery diplomacy to.
And no, not the Gaians want to shoot Mollys, but Mollys shoot Gaians all the time. Especially the Mollys that "love the ceasefire", as they say themselves.
Also, there is BAF to shoot KNF as well as Corsair Court to make sure that in 90% of cases the indie capitan will be punished for bringing his Ossie - and I guarantee that it works.
Finally, you can easily fight Ahoudari on fast Rogue gunboats. They are actually perfect for that.
Without any control Mollys picked up the unbalanced diplomacy that is harming server gameplay; got ships not balanced agains their enemines - that harms server gameplay too; and finally want to develop trading and mining with all that lack of balance.
Do I need to add that I love the idea of Molly separatists and don't understand what had they turned into?
' Wrote:I was clearly joking about the Molly Jinkusu.
:lol::lol:
Holy crap. You're joking while the Omicroners are thinking about donating a Jinkusu to the Hessians, the Colonials, and some weird rebellious and not so credible sub branch of the SCRA. Your jokes are bad taste. This is serious business. Mind that please.
' Wrote:For the last few months the only Molly that avoided shooting me was the one I told about difference between Vanilla and Discovery diplomacy to.
And no, not the Gaians want to shoot Mollys, but Mollys shoot Gaians all the time. Especially the Mollys that "love the ceasefire", as they say themselves.
Also, there is BAF to shoot KNF as well as Corsair Court to make sure that in 90% of cases the indie capitan will be punished for bringing his Ossie - and I guarantee that it works.
Finally, you can easily fight Ahoudari on fast Rogue gunboats. They are actually perfect for that.
Without any control Mollys picked up the unbalanced diplomacy that is harming server gameplay; got ships not balanced agains their enemines - that harms server gameplay too; and finally want to develop trading and mining with all that lack of balance.
Do I need to add that I love the idea of Molly separatists and don't understand what had they turned into?
As one of the Mollies (plural) who are not shooting the NLH (except when attacked by them, and their corsair friends), I find your accusations to be rather off the mark. If you'd prefer, I -could- attack the NLH on a more regular basis. It's no problem.
I don't mind the NLH in Dublin, you're welcome to squish all the BMM you can get away with.
The Baf fleets in Dublin are ridiculous -yes, I did just say that Dab- and could do with moving back to Leeds. Mollies only have one vanilla system, and that is Dublin. To say that on our home turf we should be weaker because the Brets can handle all problems, np np, is rather shortsighted. We're not shooting Baf at the moment, sure. But they're not our friends. Seriously, not our friends.
Any Ahoudari pilot who loses to a rogue gunboat is a nubbin. That thing is made for eating up other gunboats.
A few days back I blew up a Corsair Cruiser with my Scylla. Was nice to see a Cruiser in Dub again, they're actually quite rare. Usually its Titans these days, because Imperators also seem to have fallen out of fashion.
Why do Mollies have cruisers and Gaians not?
Maybe because the Mollies actually have a serious income. Gold gold goldgoldgold.
Mollies can mine (I do) at a lower efficiency (yield per rock) than the BMM, but they can't trade it. They can't dock on either of the two places that buy gold ore, requiring them to rely on junkers (thanks Emma!) and other smugglers. y'know what- that's in vanilla infocards and rumours.
Well, Gaians don't need caps, at least I don't see a reason to have them and justification for them. That's it. Another point is that NLH have only one kind of Corsair "friends" - Shaulanca, and they have a reason to work together, different from just increased numbers. So in general, I really want people to stop reading the oldschool infocard and treat Gaians according to practice.
Well, my own opinion about light gunboats (Claymore, Rogue gunboat) and heavy ones (Bretonian gunboat or Ahoudari) is different. While light ones are born to use maneuverability to eat any heavy gunboats (and 2 Claymores with support of bomber shot down Bretonian Battleship recently), the heavier ones are more all-purposes ships with more gunpower.
What will be the best to see is the official Molly faction that controls the indies and maintains public diplomacy that way letting other faction to act accordingly; because currently while one group of Mollies (thanks) attacks you, another may give you a hand and the last one will just ignore you. On practice, I'm just sick of Molly gunboats/cruisers jumping on NLH or allies from time to time together with BAF, BHG or other lawful forces.
' Wrote:Holy crap. You're joking while the Omicroners are thinking about donating a Jinkusu to the Hessians, the Colonials, and some weird rebellious and not so credible sub branch of the SCRA. Your jokes are bad taste. This is serious business. Mind that please.
This is a game. This is not business.
I reserve the right to make jokes and have fun while I am here.