Oh hey that's me You're talking about!
I figured you could at least post the conversation. But that's ok I'll do it for you.
So heres the deal. One or a few members did something to wrong you. Still not sure what. But anyway your faction and another basically bullied the faction into submission without any diplomatic contact to my knowledge. Which admittedly is hard since the faction never had a inara page for some reason.
There has been many attempts to raise influence for that faction in their home system over the years. It was never truly 100% abandoned. But since most except a few of us left. I did figure out who was fighting us in those regards btw. And it wasn't just you and I've made peace with them.
Yes. I did leave the game for a bit because IRL is a pain sometimes I'm sure even you can understand that.
So did you earn the factions home system? Yes you did. But only because you bullied them into leaving.
You were offered a system of equal pop further away from your home so you could expand more if you wanted. I would be doing the work FOR YOU!
Anyway. Heres the factions new goals. Sounds pretty malicious if you ask me!
Yes, it is you. I thought I'd keep it anonymous and the conversation is a bunch of private messages between yourself and our faction's leader. I didn't see the need to post all that. I arrived in our player faction shortly after this alleged bullying took place so I have about half an idea what the whole story is all about. However I do know the present.
Here's a few facts:
1) The system in question was in our long-term plans and had certain other things not happened, we wouldn't have accelerated our plans and wouldn't have tried to enter that system until later this year. It would have been quite possible that if our original timeline had been kept, you quite possibly would have been able to take that system for yourself. That speaks of the length of time that had passed since the original conflict between our factions.
2) When we started planning our entry to that system, of course we checked it out and found your faction to be around 10% INF and a
NPC faction in charge. Personally I didn't even know that it was the home system of any player faction until it was pointed out to me by our other guys. But for all intents and purposes your faction looked very dead.
3) I'm assured that there was certainly communication and your faction did have an Inara page in the past, what happened to it is outside of my knowledge. Remember, I arrived after all that water had passed under the bridge.
Really, I don't think I see how that is "bullying them into leaving". We left that system alone for years before deciding to go for it. We haven't fought against your faction for years. We speak of it mostly as a footnote in in our in-game history with our newer players and generally have treated it as an NPC faction. I can't speak for the other faction you were in conflict with but it appears your lot decided to fight them first before we got involved in an unrelated incident, however that happened. Before my time
As for the system you're offering, well, one of the reasons we picked the system we are in now is the combination of facilities available at the stations. The proposed system while similar in population and number of stations, has fewer facilities and an economy type we already have plenty of. It's not a good trade in our view.
Nevertheless, the main reason why I am here on the forums is to gauge whether we're being thoroughly unreasonable by wanting to hold this system that we expanded into. General principles, not our specific example which is why I didn't want to name anyone. I have some sympathy for your position but it is one you've chosen and you've placed yourself in a rather difficult spot. Who knows, it might turn out well for everyone in the end and/or generate a certain amount of emergent gameplay.
o7 CMDR.
