Hi everyone,
If this thread is better put elsewhere, please do - I'm not exactly sure where to put it but here's a start.
What's the general etiquette when someone adopts an player faction that's been abandoned for over 2 years whose home system your faction has expanded into and now controls, and now approaches you and demands their system back? They have stated they will take it by force if necessary and are trying to drum up alliances at the moment. We like this system and don't want to give it up - I mean we went there for a reason and nobody opposed our expansion at the time. It was quite a bit of work to get in there.
Long version of the story here (written by one of our faction admins):
I'd be interested in the views of the community on this.
If this thread is better put elsewhere, please do - I'm not exactly sure where to put it but here's a start.
What's the general etiquette when someone adopts an player faction that's been abandoned for over 2 years whose home system your faction has expanded into and now controls, and now approaches you and demands their system back? They have stated they will take it by force if necessary and are trying to drum up alliances at the moment. We like this system and don't want to give it up - I mean we went there for a reason and nobody opposed our expansion at the time. It was quite a bit of work to get in there.
Long version of the story here (written by one of our faction admins):
An open question to the Elite Dangerous community with a bit of context but without naming names…
Three years ago in the year 3303, War is raging on two fronts of a single PMF. As things get too heated for this PMF they outright abandon their in-game faction who then immediately go on to create a whole new in-game faction in another part of the galaxy far, far away along with all of their squadron members.
The two remaining factions signed a “One Years Gentleman’s Agreement” that neither party shall expand into the defeated PMF’s home system out of respect for the still presiding but now abandoned PMF.
As time goes by so does the BGS, the old faction slowly loses systems to other PMF’s as well as local NPC factions until one day the abandoned PMF also loses its controlling status in their home system to one of the native NPC factions. Nobody notices because, Thargoids come and Thargoids go.
During this time our PMF keeps doing what it does and continues to create a welcoming environment for our current, new and veteran players.
One of the ways we do this is by playing the BGS and maintaining our already controlled star systems including the inhabiting minor factions, so they do not retreat. This also means sometimes we expand as all factions of the bubble do.
March 3306, two years since the “One Years Gentleman’s Agreement” concluded our PMF had expanded into the abandoned PMF’s former home system and immediately got to work towards a system take over which meant overthrowing the current controlling NPC faction. By April 3306 we had succeeded and have held onto and maintained this system ever since.
During the next four months the Brewer Corporation releases the Drake-Class (Fleet) Carriers bringing many absent CMDR’s back to the pilot seat, some for more than a year. One of these very CMDR’s were unexpectedly about to come knocking on our door with one of these new and what he calls “war ships’.
June 24th 3306 out of the blue our PMF is contacted by a lone-wolf CMDR who has taken it upon himself an attempt to resurrect the abandoned PMF. He begins with offering what he considers an olive branch, saying that the old leadership had been out of line and are never allowed to return. This strikes me as odd because we already know that this to be incorrect as we have spoken on occasion with the former leadership of the abandoned PMF since their departure from their original home system.
He follows this up by asking “in return” that we now give up rightful control of the system to him and his lone-wolf zombie faction.
Of course to this we kindly declined but offered in return “that as a measure of good faith any assets currently owned by the old PMF will stay and we will assist to maintain control of those land able assets”.
His response, A system swap of a star system that the abandoned PMF does not even control and has far worse assets than the abandoned PMF’s former home system.
Does this sound like a fair deal to you? Or has this CMDR been on the Onion Head for too long?
***
An independent investigation into this CMDR has revealed a large spread of miss information against our PMF in the hopes that CMDRs unknowing of the truth will come and fight for his “cause”. We outright deny these allegations.
Three years ago in the year 3303, War is raging on two fronts of a single PMF. As things get too heated for this PMF they outright abandon their in-game faction who then immediately go on to create a whole new in-game faction in another part of the galaxy far, far away along with all of their squadron members.
The two remaining factions signed a “One Years Gentleman’s Agreement” that neither party shall expand into the defeated PMF’s home system out of respect for the still presiding but now abandoned PMF.
As time goes by so does the BGS, the old faction slowly loses systems to other PMF’s as well as local NPC factions until one day the abandoned PMF also loses its controlling status in their home system to one of the native NPC factions. Nobody notices because, Thargoids come and Thargoids go.
During this time our PMF keeps doing what it does and continues to create a welcoming environment for our current, new and veteran players.
One of the ways we do this is by playing the BGS and maintaining our already controlled star systems including the inhabiting minor factions, so they do not retreat. This also means sometimes we expand as all factions of the bubble do.
March 3306, two years since the “One Years Gentleman’s Agreement” concluded our PMF had expanded into the abandoned PMF’s former home system and immediately got to work towards a system take over which meant overthrowing the current controlling NPC faction. By April 3306 we had succeeded and have held onto and maintained this system ever since.
During the next four months the Brewer Corporation releases the Drake-Class (Fleet) Carriers bringing many absent CMDR’s back to the pilot seat, some for more than a year. One of these very CMDR’s were unexpectedly about to come knocking on our door with one of these new and what he calls “war ships’.
June 24th 3306 out of the blue our PMF is contacted by a lone-wolf CMDR who has taken it upon himself an attempt to resurrect the abandoned PMF. He begins with offering what he considers an olive branch, saying that the old leadership had been out of line and are never allowed to return. This strikes me as odd because we already know that this to be incorrect as we have spoken on occasion with the former leadership of the abandoned PMF since their departure from their original home system.
He follows this up by asking “in return” that we now give up rightful control of the system to him and his lone-wolf zombie faction.
Of course to this we kindly declined but offered in return “that as a measure of good faith any assets currently owned by the old PMF will stay and we will assist to maintain control of those land able assets”.
His response, A system swap of a star system that the abandoned PMF does not even control and has far worse assets than the abandoned PMF’s former home system.
Does this sound like a fair deal to you? Or has this CMDR been on the Onion Head for too long?
***
An independent investigation into this CMDR has revealed a large spread of miss information against our PMF in the hopes that CMDRs unknowing of the truth will come and fight for his “cause”. We outright deny these allegations.
I'd be interested in the views of the community on this.
