Ahoy there,
i keep reading and hearing this term from FD and on the forums.
But i think people confuse what it means (from the wiki):
"Personal narrative (PN) is a prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person; its content is nontraditional.[1] "Personal" refers to a story from one's life or experiences. "Nontraditional" refers to literature that does not fit the typical criteria of a narrative."
So it is my own story to be told.
I wonder why FD confuses my own story with grinding.
Tech-brokers are coming and they are there for my own "personal narrative"?
Sure if i work with them, i get special stuff, if not i don't get that reward.
But that is no personal narrative, that is a single choice to grind stuff.
My CMDR's personal narrative is this in a short summary:
What we get from FD is just a bland interaction that requires grind as enabler.
There is no achievement in "harvesting" engineer materials,
becoming hostile to a whole system and having a bounty that rises above your own
reserves however is something, that is personal narrative.
Why is the "personal narrative" always the GRIND?!
Personal narrative should tie into REPUTATION.
Allow us to make friends for real and have NPC wings
that aid us or tip us off.
Make REPUTATION matter, make it do something.
Grinding is boredom.
i keep reading and hearing this term from FD and on the forums.
But i think people confuse what it means (from the wiki):
"Personal narrative (PN) is a prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person; its content is nontraditional.[1] "Personal" refers to a story from one's life or experiences. "Nontraditional" refers to literature that does not fit the typical criteria of a narrative."
So it is my own story to be told.
I wonder why FD confuses my own story with grinding.
Tech-brokers are coming and they are there for my own "personal narrative"?
Sure if i work with them, i get special stuff, if not i don't get that reward.
But that is no personal narrative, that is a single choice to grind stuff.
My CMDR's personal narrative is this in a short summary:
- born in Psamathe - Kapp Dock
- learned of his lust for adventure and the stars on his first orbital flight
- spent his time refining his piloting skills and earning money for the pilot's license
- started out with some deliveries, until he discovered that the big companies steadily supply his home system with goods that are not necessary
- he learned that some of the household machines were wired and used for espionage, Psamathe always was a troubling system
- left to learn more about the companies, eventually ended up framed by authorities and labelled pirate, investigating the cerberus plague
- sticked to the pirate role and started robbing transports to interrupt resupply lines
- plans got foiled, as soon as hudson became president and sent a kill squad to psamathe, subduing the independant system under his baleful gaze
- had to leave and run for his life, making new aquaintances and finding new hideouts, eventually pestering alliance and empire systems aswell
- investigated in the abduction of Halsey and Palin, found clues, that the cerberus plague was bio-engineered and used to alter the memory
- aquired funds to invest into better equipment and a larger ship, rigged for stealth approaches while retaining survivability
- found out about the global diamond reserves of the federation in DS Leonis and started to trace the transports' origins
- found the Diamond Depot and started a raid on it and the transports, until the whole system was wanting him dead, severely hampering federal expansion and the presumed shadow council
- learned of his lust for adventure and the stars on his first orbital flight
- spent his time refining his piloting skills and earning money for the pilot's license
- started out with some deliveries, until he discovered that the big companies steadily supply his home system with goods that are not necessary
- he learned that some of the household machines were wired and used for espionage, Psamathe always was a troubling system
- left to learn more about the companies, eventually ended up framed by authorities and labelled pirate, investigating the cerberus plague
- sticked to the pirate role and started robbing transports to interrupt resupply lines
- plans got foiled, as soon as hudson became president and sent a kill squad to psamathe, subduing the independant system under his baleful gaze
- had to leave and run for his life, making new aquaintances and finding new hideouts, eventually pestering alliance and empire systems aswell
- investigated in the abduction of Halsey and Palin, found clues, that the cerberus plague was bio-engineered and used to alter the memory
- aquired funds to invest into better equipment and a larger ship, rigged for stealth approaches while retaining survivability
- found out about the global diamond reserves of the federation in DS Leonis and started to trace the transports' origins
- found the Diamond Depot and started a raid on it and the transports, until the whole system was wanting him dead, severely hampering federal expansion and the presumed shadow council
What we get from FD is just a bland interaction that requires grind as enabler.
There is no achievement in "harvesting" engineer materials,
becoming hostile to a whole system and having a bounty that rises above your own
reserves however is something, that is personal narrative.
Why is the "personal narrative" always the GRIND?!
Personal narrative should tie into REPUTATION.
Allow us to make friends for real and have NPC wings
that aid us or tip us off.
Make REPUTATION matter, make it do something.
Grinding is boredom.
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