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All I know about RvB is, "what's good for one is good for all" doesn't apply. Leadership plays favourites, and fast and loose with alliance 'rules'. They aren't what they used to be.

"lets have some fun for both sides" to "lol".

That's in most cases not true at all from what i've seen. I might be new, but all i had is fun and the community is still amazing although i lost plenty :)

When Plave created RvB (both times) it had some simple rules, for good reasons, that made it awesome and with correct implementation of those rules it worked great. Over time they started to change the rules so that it became less about "go get your feet wet in PVP" to haves and have nots. The overall idea changed from "lets have some fun for both sides" to "lol".

In the months I spent there, it certainly did seem that way. The double standards were atrocious. One minute I'm being told to downship from a Brutix because I might be scaring the blues into not fighting, the next I'm in a T1 frig getting blobbed by a cruiser gang with links. Not to mention the friends of mine that joined, who got kicked for 'baiting' RvB members prior to joining and 'being dicks'. It's not true, of course, my friends were just kicking everyone's butts and they got salty about it. I've seen them let plenty of people join that were baiting RvB members, including myself, and I've encountered more than a few dicks in the ranks as well.

Pirate implants that cover almost everything. Drugs now legal. So many more ship types to have to deal with. That's just off the top of my head! So trying to get a balanced fight out of all of this now adays is a bloody nightmare :-(

Hello all,

I am a returning player after a considerable time. I am a part of Red Corp and RvB. Great people, great corp, great idea.

The problem is nothing seems to be happening when I am online in regards to pvp. I have to wait for a few hours for a skirmish or go through chat tells for some duels, etc. Only a few are online and they are afk mostly. I am GMT +2 and I don't want to wait until late night/midnight for some action.

I know that there would not be much early daytime, but what about late afternoons? Early evenings? Is it possible to log into some meaningful pvp action in the game anywhere? any of these times? If so, where and how?

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It wouldn't be if things simply weren't allowed, and that rule was actually acted upon. People in groups do things because they get away with them, strong leadership that a) makes ppl WANT to follow that leadership and b) makes ppl fear the outcome of not following that leadership results in people who stick to the rules.

The rules, while very arbitrary and possibly "petty" at times, are there to create an even playing field which was the outset: get more newbies into pvp. That kinda stopped being the case. Not saying that individuals who put in massive effort to help newbies don't exist in RvB, they most certainly do, but the concept as it is today isn't newbie friendly.

So explain how you stop neutral boosters given RvB's open door policy? Get banned, buy or skill extract and create a new combat toon. Use same neutral booster. It's not like we check IP address.

How do you stop pirate implants? Podding doesn't work because most people with pirate implants know to get the pod off the field and you hurt the new players that don't. Banning can work but proof of say Slaves, Halos, and others can be tough. Is his ship just tanky with good skills or just pirate imants. Snakes are perhaps the easiest but others aren't. Yes leadership can say no but you end up with burnt out leadership from spending their free time policing. Remembered leadership want to just blow up ships too and when they spend all their playtime in convos hearing a he said/she said story, it sucks.

Ship types... You can ban big stuff yet people will always complain and you never get one big BS verse a fleet of frigates that can be fun. Ban other stuff and people get bored. It's a balance because you need some vets to stay or the newer players have no one to learn from.

Station games, I'll all ears how to solve that. Maybe say screw it and move to citadels. Of course that is also a big target For those who want to grief. Still I would love suggestions on stopping station games.

Still, it is what it is. I'm always open to suggestions so fire them away.