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Posted - 2003.08.08 06:43:00 -
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To be honest, I myself was hoping for a bit more entertaining resolution of this. Jovians that dna recycle one of their own for handing out high-tech equipment come over to buy/trade back the item that had fallen in corp hands? I don't know, but I'd seen the Jovians differently up till now, especially with all their high-tech. I'd rather have seen them take the lasers without compensation, leaving TTI with the option to demand reparations from the Jovians, and then (since the Jovians would obviously not pay) go over to having a true and serious roleplayed grievance. Yes, it's not part of their philosophy (taking on a higher tech species would mean a serious investment of material for little gain, and yes, I do understand that if for some reason Jovians would come with the offer to do an equal trade, that'd be more than fine for Ayn Rand followers), but they'd be the first corp with a legitimate grievance against the Jovians who'd have suckered them for the tune of 55 mill. They could've sent out feelers (well, explorer wings really) towards Jove space to see if they could break in, or catch a Jove ship unawares, incursions close to Jove controlled space, and so on. Maybe it's me, but for a company that invests so much (well spent btw) time in roleplaying the encounter where they got the mining laser in question, I'm still a bit disappointed at the amount that's gone into resolving it through roleplaying so far. Having said that I'll still say I enjoyed the whole roleplayed out encounter where they got the mining laser. LOL, if it had been my corp, and Joves had suckered me like this (to give my interpretation as a character (and assuming they'd have sold me (through intermediaries) the laser, and then come by to "magically" pick it up, thus scamming me out of 55 mill)), I'd have declared war on them in a fit of righteous anger  . It wouldn't have done me any good, but I could've written quite some roleplayed out stories of trying to reach Jovian space, drifting in search of my own white whale, and so on.
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