' just the upper echelons of the community that runs the base'
While I personally have no issues with people role-playing they are doing business in the base and whatever, I do have issues with people role-playing 'upper echelons of the community that runs the base'. That is basically saying 'the base owners'.
(06-30-2020, 02:24 PM)Hokan Wrote: Seems unrealistic given their situation.
I think giving the situation of people on the base, acquiring Cardamine is among the low priority for them. Rations, oxygen, and water keeping up the base from falling apart is a much higher priority when your very home and your very existence are in danger especially with such a tight and "act together" community. As far as a Cardamine dealer it would be a dead business "selling" Cardamine to these people as they either would not buy it or could not buy it. Potentially just turning the dealers down till business dies out
Dealing cardamine is a sure fire way to get the money you need for the rest of that stuff.
(06-30-2020, 03:23 PM)Kaze Wrote: ' just the upper echelons of the community that runs the base'
While I personally have no issues with people role-playing they are doing business in the base and whatever, I do have issues with people role-playing 'upper echelons of the community that runs the base'. That is basically saying 'the base owners'.
Care to revise that statement?
English, while being my first language, is also not my first language. Yes I shall re-iterate one what that was supposed to say.
Anyone that lives on the base lives on the base, everyone on the base that is actively falling apart pitches in to keep it running, what I was attempting to convey meant that there are those that will be reaching out as 'figureheads' or 'speakers' of those on the base to acquire supplies, relations, protection and what not. Though as I've already said several times, we don't own the base, that's not how freelancers operate. We are just setting precedents for what behavior is like on the station, with it being protected by the local pirates and being filled with bitter civvies misplaced from leeds during the war. Nobody's locked out, not that the hanger doors could even lock to begin with.
(06-30-2020, 03:24 PM)Omicron Wrote: Freelancer bases exist for sole reason to not have player-controlled administrations...
The same could be said for pretty much every base, they exist as solars for people to dock at and nothing more than an in-game aspect, only existing on the forums as a roleplay entity. Though specifically freeports in their nature, have figureheads that have a collective of the base occupants that are organized to help keep the base running in a more efficient manner, it would be odd to say that there is absolutely no figurehead on the base whatsoever that helps keep track of daily tasks that need to be done and quotas to be met, if that were the case the base would've already fallen apart as without tasking and information being spread throughout the denizens, they would not know something needs to be fixed on the other side of the station until it eventually crumbles and falls outward into space for some random Junker boi to yoink.
We're not an administration, we rely on the local pirates to keep things under control while we're busy keeping the base from falling apart. There's a no brawl rule in effect as on any freeport, it's a freeport, I'm not sure why people insist we're something we're not. We're roleplaying the organized populace of the base and nothing more.
Hokan, again, this base is depicted as the literal scum bottom feeders of the galaxy and one of the most dangerous bases in Sirius because it is literally falling apart, these people have no way of buying it so they can deal it in the first place. Cardamine is not banned from the station, they simply wish it to stay out of the ventilation shafts, and many bretonian citizens had their doubts about the outcasts regardless of the government's view of them. It's a waypoint for smugglers who are maintained by the mechanics on the station and that's where most of their income comes from.
Edit: We're not freelancers that can somehow afford 100 million dollar ships armored with plating that's worth upwards of a billion credits.
The thing is you can get banned from Zoner Freeport (or any other base) and it be legitimaly upheld though admin action (faction right 5), wherever Freelancer bases have no rules and no administrations. You cant enforce anything. This is why freelancer bases exist rather than just have another Zoner base, so players do not have to contend with NFZ (which you again, cannot enforce due to limitations of Freelancer ID) and FR5's
(06-30-2020, 03:44 PM)Omicron Wrote: The thing is you can get banned from Zoner Freeport (or any other base) and it be legitimaly upheld though admin action (faction right 5), wherever Freelancer bases have no rules and no administrations. You cant enforce anything. This is why freelancer bases exist rather than just have another Zoner base, so players do not have to contend with NFZ (which you again, cannot enforce due to limitations of Freelancer ID) and FR5's