This discussion continues to prompt me to retch. Clearly I stumbled into a circus, because these clowns wont be silent. So many presume to speak on behalf of the Emperor, or even their Federal President. Such a dishonorable thing to do, to assume to know the wants and wishes of our dear ruler. Until the day comes that the Emperor himself, and the Federal's President sound the horns of war there will be peace at large. Until then you can call continue to slap each other around like school children when the next Lugh brushfire rebellion pops up. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some vacation time to cash in on.
*Lights a cigar with a burning credit chip, then gets in a solid gold Orca and flies off*
OOC:
Thanks for everyone actually taking my character seriously. I wasn't aware that people hadn't caught on to the fact that Duris Maccus is a haughty, bumbling, and overly entitled Business Tycoon, who is very much akin to Donald Trump. I won't apologize for anything previously said, because it was an act.
Now, if I may say my honest views, as a player of the game with no real allegiance beyond just having fun with a bloody game (what a novel concept amirite?), and not as the fictional multi-millionaire jackalope who views people as not much more than things to be bought and sold; I honestly believe war on the scale that you all want is not obtainable. The instancing system is wholly unreliable. Most of the time when I play in open, I am by myself because my rural american internet is utter tripe. I wouldn't be able to get invovled in a war like this currently. Beyond just that, the actual mechanics for a massive war between Empire and Federation don't exist. Don't lie to yourselves thinking that they are. We can't push for something like this to come to a head before Powerplay comes into circuit. I know that the community at large is chomping at the bit for some action. However, maybe try for something smaller in scale? More akin to the Lugh conflict? I mean, there's nothing stopping you all from killing one another right now as of this moment. Y'all don't need FD to create a story for it. I mean, if you're looking for an excuse to commit wanton murder, just do it!
A war between the Empire and Federation is coming. I think we all know that. We should be patient however, as a war with the current game mechanics wouldn't be very interesting or particularly much fun. It'd be more of the same, just with different lore/meta text via GNN. That idea just makes me shurg and let out a, "meh." When a war with the Empire and Federation occurs, I want to see Capitol Ships fighting one another, with clouds of fighters obliterating one another in droves, as CMDR's bob and weave through the carnage! We won't get that. Not now at least. Gotta give it time before that comes around.
If we had war we'd get the usual conflict zones, with clouds of NPC's killing eachother over, and over, and over again for 5 days straight until it ended. The high intensity zones would spawn 1 capitol ship for 1 faction. La-dee-da. That's my final word. I'll be unsubbing from the thread now.