Drew, thanks for the sentiment. But Salome and Raan private army don't care.
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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Drew, thanks for the sentiment. But Salome and Raan private army don't care.
Thank you, Mr. Wagar. The things I'm seeing on other sites are a little... unfortunate to say the least.
I plan to be there, unaligned or otherwise. I will do my part. If people want to go nuts trying to be Seal Team Rick, they can go to town, but not all of us are going to be OK with that, at all.
And awaaaaay we go!
Thx mate, I think this is important for people who want to take part.
When will somebody know the waypoints??????
So the gankers are running the show, as suspected. Sad. Nothing like putting the wolves in charge of the sheep. Be amusing to see if they turn on the VIPs at least.
Saool... that makes an interesting read, and your experience is a worrying one.
I recognise - and thank - Drew, for his statement about the discord, and I would love to think that it will make a difference, but I'm sceptical. There is a lot of passion involved, and in truth, there always is where Elite is concerned, but I think some are taking it a tad too seriously. Roleplay is fine, but I can't imagine that the characters involved in Drew's novel are the type that would attract sociopathic, murderous pilots who would KOS any armed ship without confirming intentions first. So... roleplay taken a step too far.
As I've said in previous posts, I'd love to take part, but I'm not a sheep, or a goat tethered to a stake. If we are to roleplay, let's play our roles, not have them defined for us.
Anyway, I'll be watching on one of the twitch streams later on, and that's as far I'll go, I suspect, unless there's a statement from one of the sociopathic groups that points out we won't be shot on sight for being armed.
@Drew, I really hope this does all play out in the way you envisaged it, when you came up with the concept, regardless of the fates of the key characters. I'll buy the book either way.
I posted this elsewhere but this was the response to drew
@everyone crying to Drew because we said your ship will be killed for x, y, z reason isn't going to change anything. If you don't follow the plan we carefully crafted for safety and security purposes, your ship will be blown up. And it will be your own fault. If you want to help, be helpful. Don't be proud and stubborn. That being said, everyone is welcome to join, we're all adults so we can make our own decisions. Just know that you reap the rewards of your decision. If that means a 65 mil cutter rebuy cuz you couldn't swallow your pride, so be it.
I don't think anyone is crying to Drew. Drew reads the forums, same as everyone else, and can see how some players are feeling.
You can't say everyone is welcome to join, when that isn't the case. Threatening to KOS anyone who turns up to help, because they're armed, isn't welcoming.
And I believe the response was something along the line of 'classic wife beater thinking'.
Or put another way "everyone is invited to take part. As long as you come unarmed and don't actually take part"
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That's what you get if you sleep with the devil.
I almost feel sympathy for CoR.
This is going to be a PR nightmare for them. Tarnishing their, already not really good, reputation and cast a really bad shadow on Salomé and her intentions.
We are free explorers, nobody tells us what to do.
Truth!
Freedom!
My main concern is that this group was advertised in erimus and drews post as the place to go. fine if its a group dedicated to their own agenda but when you point Most of the community somewhere it does need to be more inclusive
That almost sounds like a rallying call for a new player faction.
Or the "Git Gud" mentality.
Or classic "victim blaming"
But that's going to much OT for my taste.
Anyway, I guess everybody already learned a lot from this event. If nobody tried it, we would never know. To be honest, the last few weeks have been a lot of fun for me. The events leading up to this date have been interesting and fun. All of it outside of the game, but a lot of entertaining comments and discussions.
Almost. For some of them, like Erimus. It's not like anyone couldn't have foreseen (in a Premonition even) that this is the way it would end up going down. But of course the control-freak PvPerz in CoR were no doubt drooling in anticipation of exactly this, and how they would be in charge of it all to micromanage it, so I have no sympathy for them at all.
I made a PSA, to avoid any violence today.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/348566-PSA-HONK-day?p=5454315#post5454315
My premonition for today's event, fair or not, will be a Galnet breaking news story about a path of carnage ripped across the galaxy confirming that Salomè, CoR and their allies are nothing more than terrorists by their killing hundreds of innocent Cmdrs and enforcing their rules on the universe.
Actions speak and ganking innocents can't be interpreted as anything other than what it is.
Lets just be happy that in real life VIP security don't feel the need to kill anybody who comes into sight of their client. They seem to be able to do the job without such tactics even though they would work there too.
It's a sad day when this makes Patreus and co look like the good guys in only targeting what they class as criminals while those that want us to support them will kill you on sight unless you follow their orders.
Yes I know it's allies rather than the VIPs or even CoR, but those VIPs and CoR won't get my support unless they make a stand against this behaviour as silence is still supporting it happening and makes them culpable in my book.
Actions speak and ganking innocents can't be interpreted as anything other than what it is.
Lets just be happy that in real life VIP security don't feel the need to kill anybody who comes into sight of their client. They seem to be able to do the job without such tactics even though they would work there too.
It's a sad day when this makes Patreus and co look like the good guys in only targeting what they class as criminals while those that want us to support them will kill you on sight unless you follow their orders.
Yes I know it's allies rather than the VIPs or even CoR, but those VIPs and CoR won't get my support unless they make a stand against this behaviour as silence is still supporting it happening and makes them culpable in my book.
I made a PSA, to avoid any violence today.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/348566-PSA-HONK-day?p=5454315#post5454315
"Don't be a vinemonkey" - that should be the T-shirt of the event... Out of rep as usual.
I think that we will see something very much of the same as we did before.
Maybe this video shows exactly what I mean.
[video=youtube;CJ3P6I9ByZU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ3P6I9ByZU[/video]
The point is that every time we tried to run a live event we ran into same problems, and not pointing fingers at FDEV here, it's just how things work.
Maybe this video shows exactly what I mean.
[video=youtube;CJ3P6I9ByZU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ3P6I9ByZU[/video]
The point is that every time we tried to run a live event we ran into same problems, and not pointing fingers at FDEV here, it's just how things work.
I don't think those people exist.
As I indicated before, this is not a CoR event. They set up the 'Allied' discord, probably with the best of intentions. However others have come in and are running it now.