Concerns with the RA

oh, well, that's probably true

 

Not to mention the ICIA Security force and Armored Wolves

 

If we're saying a faction is good based on the amount of time you spend on it, then the ICIA must have been the holy land. Just because you spend time doing something doesn't mean it is good. I remember having to do the financial records, calculate payroll, employee workers for off-planet mines, and even order food from major suppliers. I then had to calculate this all out into my expenses and property tax. After that, I had to go into the registry and check every employee's name.

And again with the pretentiousness. You seem to be having an issue saying that the RA is at fault here. You mention the old RA, the one that was better instead of the one that was now. You have to realize that they fucked up and stop trying to blame everyone else. Stop claiming that you were realistic and fair when the majority was against you.

Frankly, I'm glad the RA is gone. A new faction that has a premise other than "big badass military" now has a chance to move in. We have an opportunity to make interesting, non-combatant RP that everyone will find interesting and can enjoy.

 

It's a fact the old RA was a very good faction. It has still held (in my oppinion) best event in server, which record can be read in historical factions. When you have the players, it's possible.

Okay, I know most will be too lazy to look for it.

 

So wait... People are still arguing about RA, even though Blackfang's Horde drowned Opp in sprouts and caused the survivors to disband?

 

I think the only reason I dislike the RA is because it turns into this weird private hot pocket RP with a lot of unfounded things.

More specifically trying to attack, arrest, and kill whoever they can with the most inkling of data, unreasonable sense of economics, extremely advanced tech without an actual team for developing said tech, and the assimilation of mind sets.

Basically when people join the RA they all become the same character with little variation besides look and speech patterns. Then they separate from the "common rabble" and go into this circle jerk RP in which they are the main characters of the frontier. Then you get attached and become invincible edgey tropes extorting any basic knowledge into highly detailed extrapolated data to help resume their crappy installment of civilization and prolong their characters life.

TL;DR - The RA is just a repeat of Marathon everything just turns into private RP because you push people away with your OOC mind set.


Ways to fix this...
-Liquidate assets to fund the colony.
-Try not to disclude people. Apparently a lot of characters get turned down for OOC reasoning.
-Get taken over forcing you to start over.
-When people try to give you constructive criticism try and act on it instead of arguing over details.
-Kill of the RA or restart is an option.

Sorry, my English isn't great so excuse any spelling errors. Tried to keep it short.

 

So opportunity fell and most chars are dead. Are you happy now ?
Anyway the fight of opportunity was quite some fun. And I'd like to thank everyone who participated as floran or defender.
I'd like to hear anyone's opinion about my rp and how I could improve, I know I'm not the fastes at typing and reading and my grammar is horrible at time. I'd appreciate if anyone had tipps for me.

 

(RA is deded)

 

Opportunity already built, yes. But I had the displeasure of watching and knowing it was being rebuilt OOCly, in aesthetics terms. Even that's a good source of rp for new owners.

'Man, I don't like how this place looks. When are we going to rebuild it?'

Stripping it off of resources left back then rebuild to accomodate/satisfy current owners aesthetic standards isn't the best course (Before anyone snaps, me and another player were the only ones most of times in LM, disliking the place ICly for over a month. And there were several times that topic came up.)

 

This thread is sort of pointless now, since the RA is disbanded, almost all the members dead or having left Antares ICly, and Opportunity is overrun by Florans.

 

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i have said a whole lot of times that the RA was at fault, including the Old Guard. Before the faction went on hiatus, the faction was a disaster. Regarding factions, it was a contest of who could cover their power gaming in a thicker veil. However, after we came back, with the faction regulations, I am saying that we did it by the book. There were issues regarding the combat with the RA, but we more often than not talked it out and usually submitted to a loss, which leaves me to question the constant complaint of powergaming (although I don't know what it has been like since I left). While I was around, I followed the faction regulations strictly, although as a leader I will readily admit I probably helped put the Armada on the path it is now. As I have already said what this post summarizes earlier in this thread, I'd like to ask that you stop reading into messages that are not there, and to not assume the worst of me.

 

My only regret with the RA, was not sticking to the Utilitarian Ideology as thoroughly as I would have liked.

As far as addressing specific posts outlining the RA's flaws. I haven't seen any on this thread that are worth reading. During my time here, I've learned that SBRP's community typically needs a scapegoat. In it's early days, the RA's flaws were overlooked, and I heard nothing but good things about it oocly, while the USCM factions were the server's scapegoat. Then the Armored Wolves became the scapegoat, etc. That being said, I've never really seen much to gain by giving these threads much consideration beyond "Hate thread, neat"

To elaborate, someone should have cried foul on the RA and a few other factions back in the day, when juggling imaginary numbers of imaginary npcs and imaginary things and imaginary stuff, instead of focusing on the hate threads of the time. It might have been more productive.

But, moving on to Ravenloft has shown me the differences in the RP communities that I had forgotten. Ravenloft seems to have a lot less ooc drama, and a lot more gritty "pvp" with murders, faction on faction slugfests, permadeaths, maimings, etc. With the drama kept to a minimum. It's almost surreal to see the difference that a mature community makes. GRANTED, some of the lack of drama, is born from the fact that the mechanics support the killing bits.

 

http://community.playstarboundrp.com/forums/the-relzurautt-armada.53/

For those willing to bother
There's the link to the old forums, pre-hiatus.

 

I'm gonna say here that when I get home from work around 5 pm EST, I'm making a TS group for anyone interested. I would really appreciate people coming into it and telling me what they didn't like about the RA, and offer me a chance to defend the faction, if it merits it. I can make a promise that I will stay civil, and I expect the same. I'm not making the group with the sole purpose of saying everyone is wrong and the RA is flawless. I want to clear up rumors, and learn from mistakes that had gone unnoticed, to help make the server what it could be.

 

I'm also available as Jazz Funkington on steam. I would prefer an IM medium, as PMs on the forum are clunky

 

So... lets see how long it takes for history to repeat itself, eh?
USCM --> USAF --> ICIA --> RA --> ???
for feliths group, it goes USCM --> USAF --> Isolated --> RA --> ???
I mean, honestly, every time your faction "dies" or is recreated you all group up together in the end, whether it be new characters or not.

 

Not entirely true. A few of us are thinking of going our separate ways since there's no reason to keep us together. I've made two new mains. An engineer to work on Omega, and a merc who's joining Fracture. As far as I know, most of the group is still debating whether what to do.