I have never been comfortable with rogue drone RP or non-human entities in Eve. It does not really annoy me the slightest, but it still definitly falls into the can of worms.
How I see that issue is mostly a storm in a kettle syndrome that I often see on these forums as much as ingame in the OOC channel. I may be a little rude and apologize in advance but I think most people take things in the wrong way. Anyone of you remember the
eve wiki article on roleplay ? Not that it has to be the Canon of roleplay (that single idea is simply ridiculous), but there is an interesting line in the guidelines part.
Be Human - Your main character is a "pod pilot" or "capsuleer" - a human equipped with implants and equipment that make it possible to fly a spaceship controlled from within a "pod" or "capsule." While you may claim to be something else, chances of anyone believing you are slim.Since they are guidelines, it is at best, advice, and not rules, unlike some people here seem to think. And the key point for me is around these semantics. ADVICE. It means here that you can perfectly choose to play something else, alien. But that advice warns people about the consequences it can bring upon the character in question. And consequences will inevitably come.
OOCly, I have absolutely nothing against that. If it breaks my immersion, fine, as already mentionned above, I have plenty of tools to ignore him, and will only have to blame myself if it breaks my immersion because I choosed not to use those tools and just can't control myself to the point to be a killjoy for everyone that even have nothing to do with this. As long as it remains IC for me, I do not even see why people are bringing that OOCly. He pretends to be a rogue drone ? Fine, mock him ICly, just tell him you do not believe him, believe him, or just ignore him, whatever works for your character. If the guy in question can't take this, then the blame is to be put on himself and himself only for not following that simple ADVICE. But as soon as someone starts to bring that OOCly (that is called OOC bleeding by the way), then the guy in question is not the only one to be blamed anymore. And to the guy that reacted to this OOCly because it breaks his immersion or whatever, well done dude, you may have just fallen into the trap of a troll, who knows, he was maybe just waiting for the first idiot to feed him OOCly ?
Really, it all sums up to this : as long as everything is done IC, I do not see where is the issue. Do you all think that Muck Raker or Vaari have to be shot down OOCly because what they claim ICly is pure bullshit ? I do not think so, and look at what happens continuously on the IGS for example : they continue to get flak from the majority of the characters answering to their topics, because well, these characters think obviously that what they are saying is pure bullshit. And so what ? Do people cross over and start to piss in their cheerios OOCly as well ? I don't think so, indeed. So, why the contrary with this rogue drone guy ? Because you think that his RP has no quality or something ? Or is there something else that I have missed ?
My adivce is : stop always playing the offended OOCly when something happens IC. It is selfish and childish, and most of all, arrogant, at best, and only proves that you can not make the difference between OOC and IC as well as you think.
( note : the "you" here is not adressed to people in particular )
In-game reality: You can't join Mordu's
What I claim about my 2 primary characters: They are part of "Mordu's Surveillance Operations" working as part of the contract to provide security services in Intaki
How does it benefit anyone in any way if I were to suddenly find myself being hounded in IC venues by one or more other characters constantly about this inconsistency?
I'm just attempting to illustrate once again that it's one thing to balk at space werewolves but another entirely to endlessly nit-pick over minutiae that is lore friendly but not supported by game mechanics.
As I said in another thread, I choosed to play an Ammatar myself, and I do not see why we wouldnt have minor bloodlines capsuleers as well (would make no sense). And yet the game has its own limits that makes my RP conflicts with the CONCORD database. I basically decided to pick up something that was potentially dangerous since it can conflict a little with the sacred "what happens ingame is king". So, as I said above it is always about the same thing :
the more you play on the suspension of disbelief, the more are the chances for people thinking that your character is crazy, ICly. In my case or maybe in yours (I do not know for you), I have never really had to deal with OOC influenced flak from someone else since people usually like to have players coming from subfactions, since it basically adds a lot of richness (<- is that the correct word ?) to the player generated RP enveloppe that we all live in. And this is fortunate, and it is also always what makes me cringe when I read that kind of topic.
