Why...

[bladespark]

Why, just when I finally decide to take the plunge and join, does everyone get all anal?

Meh, guess they were anal all along and I just never had it directed at me.

But if I wasn't /really/ fond of the Federation, I'd wipe my Jane's entry and quit. As it is I'm not going to go anywhere near the points thing or any warthreads, and I probably won't be adding to the Jane's stuff anytime soon. Meh. I was hoping I could actually set this up to be acceptable, but apparently I lack the background in hard science to evern understand how things ought to work.

Comments

[nsdragon.livejournal.com]

Well, I had that happen too, and it did hurt a great deal. And well, you told me this before: Nobody's forcing you to play their game. You can go and make your own universe and won't have to care for what they think.

I don't mean to stroke the fire any further (and this goes for #fleet in general), but they could use a bit more of common sense and relax the rules a bit. I mean, it's not like someone's gonna go all godmoding and take over the entire galaxy. And if they do, what should it matter? It's a roleplaying board anyway, at least in essence, where the most important thing isn't winning, but telling the story.

[loweko.livejournal.com]

The rules are pretty relaxed these days, some of us just like being hardline no matter what interpretations we give them. I could issue a ruleset that only consisted of "No Mangoes", and within 24 hours I'd get reports on how Person X was showing dangerous soft-fruit sympathies.

To be honest, our best bet plotwise is to lead by example. It's one reason I'd love to get cracking on these first-contact stories.