
Jobie Thickburger
Gallente Miner Guide to the Galaxy
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Posted - 2006.08.10 18:29:00 -
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Originally by: The Cosmopolite [OOC remarks as an interested but completely non-involved player]
Originally by: Archbishop I will just say as an RPer I find myself disappointed and let down a bit. I thought someones RP was going to shape up a bit and it apparently hasnt. I feel like I wasted time the other day talking to someone now.
I don't really see that hiring mercenaries has any bearing on whether or not someone's RP is bad or good.
The reasons for hiring the mercs might (and we don't officially know what the reasons are let alone who the employer is) but I strongly disagree that hiring mercs in EVE per se somehow results in RP demerits.
As a veteran of the CVA-SF War, I will admit to some amusement that KIA are this time the hirelings of a mysterious anti-CVA/PIE employer rather than, as was the case in the aforementioned war, the hirelings of a mysterious pro-CVA|anti-SF employer. (Which was never made clear and I am one of those in SF who has come to believe that there really was a contract.)
Anyway, mercs are part of the player-created atmosphere and background of EVE. Hiring them is to use resources in the attempt to obtain an effect on the battlefield. Combine it with an overall objective and a reason for that objective and you have RP. As I say, it's the not the hiring of mercs that has a bearing on the merits of the RP in question, it's rather the rationale behind the decision to hire them at all.
Cosmo
I have to agree with ya Cosmo, Hiring Mercs isn't Anti-RP, well, unless your RPing a big bad Kill all force, IE BOB hires Mercs to do their dirty work (but then again, BOB AFAIK doesn't RP all the time, This is just an Example BTW, Don't hate me)
Think about it from The "non Fighter" point of view. My corp can hold its own when need be, but in the end we are fairly weak on the PVP-Fighting scale (I say PVP fighting b/c we do PVP, A Lot, The fight for Minerals and Market stuffs can be brutal sometimes). Thats when we must flex our biggest muscle, and send in the Hired Killers to do our dirty work for us. True you don't (apparently) see it quite as often as I'd like to, But mercs play an important role in the Carebear world as well.
Sometimes, Money talks louder than words :)
CEO - MGTTG
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