I came to Redding this morning to see how the situation evolve. Anarchists and assassins everywhere, harassing remaining guards and some players... During 2 hours, I've tried to help the Tsars just to see what it was like. Very quickly, my karma has collapsed (-650 for NCR and -1200 with Redding). Everyone involve in the defense of the city has a disastrous reputation and spend part of his time killing NPCs who should enjoy their protectors. After that, people protecting Redding have to doc themself because the guards quickly cripple. And the rest of their time they fight against the raiders. Dead bodies everywhere ...
The guards respawn very quickly and so, people trying to defend the peace in Redding consume a monstrous amount of ammunitions to kill them even if nothing wrong happens in the city.
So, except if you use a hand-to-hand build, you quickly leave the scene, and let the field open to PKers.
Yes, the city is "neutral". But it's the Far Wild West with no real sheriff. And I do not see how such chaos could attract new players or peacefull RP players. Personnally, i would not come here to trade. Even those who are supposed to control that city will leave it soon or do what i see, come back and try to defend it with in blue suite...
If Redding must be a neutral and quiet place with no militia controled by a faction, suitable for RP, so let's make a new kind of Vault City with turrets or a new kind of NCR with many guards. Or let's be confident in time and players...
Anyway, IMHO, the solution currently adopted seems anything but satisfactory. It's worst than before, worst than NCR...
Still IMHO, there will never be a GM or NPC solution for peace. Peace must be made between players. As it was done at Golgotha and in Redding.
Passion is a feature of FOnline, with sometimes hatred and rage as a result. The interactions between players are a feature of online games, with alliances, but also diplomacy as a result. The solution will be an new agreement, a new treaty between players.
So be patient. There is a time for war and a time for peace. Peace will come, at least because the hate cement always crumble with boredom. And also because in quite all teams, there is people who want to do RP. But that kind of peace is not permanent, so players should accept that. One time for war...
