[FM] stands for the faction of Flash Mob, otherwise known as rich civilians with symptoms of lawls , who have too much time and money on their hands.
FM rules
1) Are allowed to shoot mining turrets at players to annoy them
2) Disrupt trade lanes in order to annoy incoming players
3) Disrupt player cruise to annoy players
4) Not allowed to fight, not allowed to shoot at players (except with mining turrets), even if in self defense
5) Are allowed to Go to a designated point and fly around in a "dance route/routine"
6) FM must have high value cargo (full hold of $10000 credit cards) on them at all times for players to loot (ie not allowed to undock without a full hold of $10000 credit cards)
7) are only allowed to use freighters and transports
8) When being shot at, the FM are expected to try their best to escape. and if the pursuer gives up, the FM could return to annoy him even more
9) are expected to treat everyone as equals, ie annoy everybody
10) are allowed to ram large ships, however not into planets
11) are expected to flash mob areas in fleets while singing the FM anthem
12) may only operate within human space
13) are exceptions to the 2 hours engagement rule, as long as they've got enough credit cards on them to launch (RP premise being the ships who tractored in the FM's escape pods along with the credit cards handed them over to the authorities, who let them go on a bail, and they got a new ship which they use to continue being annoying)
14) may not operate within conn
15) may not pay pirates using credit cards when being pirated
16) may not fly ships with less than 70 cargo hold
17) may not demand credits from players, aside from other FMs. If the other FM does not agree, the two enter a fight to the death, and any bystanders may tractor in the loser's credit cards to sell at the nearest base
People who encounter the FM may -
Express their disgust for the FM by saying "oh not those guys again", then shoot the FM, loot the FM's credit cards, sell credit cards at nearest lawful base (RP premise being the player is handing the FM escape pod to the authorities), all without serious reprucussions, as shooting the FM counts as self defense
No atmosphere? GTFO.
The propeller is the greatest invention of all time.
This might sound fun to you, but it would seriously disrupt the server as police couldn't chase pirates, traders couldn't trade, and pirates wouldn't have transports going through all the lanes for them to attack.
(03-27-2013, 12:27 PM)TLI-Inferno Wrote: As if there wasn't already a trolling problem...
Seriously, our forum is getting colon cancer...
This might sound fun to you, but it would seriously disrupt the server as police couldn't chase pirates
yes they can, in fact the FM could count as pirates. also, the FM are expected to annoy everyone, so if they disrupt the police they have to disrupt the pirates as wel,
yes they could, it'd just be super annoying with the FM shooting at them with mining turrets n' all,
(03-27-2013, 12:27 PM)TLI-Inferno Wrote: and pirates wouldn't have transports going through all the lanes for them to attack
again why? maybe you misunderstood the rules of the faction, but I specifically state FM aren't allowed to fight back- people are encouraged to kill the FM for the credit cards they have on them, and pirates are encouraged to kill the FM for being space trolls.
Overall I'd say that the FM are heavily disadvantaged if anything, the message being trolling comes with a price.
No atmosphere? GTFO.
The propeller is the greatest invention of all time.
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