You don't get it...
...What I meant is that without TC, this kind of GM driven events would not make people think that it's all bout a GM making one faction keep the town for a crazy amount of time so they get an enormous income from the TC box.
We known that from the beginning... Nobody's complaining about that...
I still think that no-TC would be nice, or, even better, a TC system similar to what Ravenous Rat said in some other trollthread: you need faction members actually standing inside the town map if you want it to remain yours. It'll make factions take the town and stay there instead of taking and only come back for the TC box loot.
I've read all the posts in that thread (and in your thread speaking about RP...).
It seems you did not, so =>
http://fodev.net/forum/index.php?topic=18860.msg156394#msg156394And even if there's some trolls in it there is mainly good ideas in it...
Anyway, my point is: I've been in an RP team for more than one year. We have sometimes been in conflict with PVP teams and especially the lawyers. But at the end, you discover that without the help of such teams, you can just enjoy small RP but not organize RP events. Moreover, when you finally work with them on your project, you discover that most of them have RP chars and that some of them are very involve in RP things even if they don't speak about it and even if you don't know their RP alts.
And you've never heard them saying: "let's kick out RP players and delete RP mechanisms In Game. We don't need them to enjoy our PVP"... And if you don't know, there is PVP players who use to disconnect their PVP chars after the battle and to come back in the city with other alts... To enjoy RP moments... Yes, it's possible to enjoy both...
So if you wanna make more RP, more events In Game, you basically and most of the time need the protection of a PVP team and PVP mechanisms to help this PVP team. Except of course if you do things that i've read: play only with RP players on a private server.
The 2238 system is maybe not perfect, but a lot of things are here to help you. But it's an open system. It means diversity. It means also that you can't choose with whom you will play. Some players would like to change the system. Not to make it better for everybody, just better for them and to invite those who dont play like them to chose another server. Some says: Fallout is an RP Game so 2238 should be an RP Server.
In the thread speaking about TC in the next session (
http://fodev.net/forum/index.php?topic=18860.0), the result of the pool is very clear: only a quarter of the players think that TC should be removed. The majority wants to continue to enjoy TC (not only PVP). It means that the minority will have to deal with TC if they wanna do RP things In Game. So now, they should learn and understand the PVP mechanisms, contact PVP teams and ask for their protection. And for some, it will be a good opportunity to forget their prejudices, meet the others, and not only the ones they have choosen.
Anyway, it will surely be one of the best time of the game because most of the PVP teams enjoy to fight for something. And if you wanna change the PVP teams, the way they act, the better way is to do it from inside...
PS: don't forget that it's the end of the session (sooooonnn ?) so some teams who could start a new project don't want to do it now cause everything could be wipe tomorrow... It's boring for everybody...