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Hey everybody :-)

So if google trans is doing its job correctly .. Jazzy is asking marauder's definition of the marauder group?

Well, as a marauder on Atys (as I used to play Leanon, and back in those days, there were no marauders there) I have seen various "stages" of marauder-ism.

When I first turned marauder with my guild (Magister Mortalis) over a year ago, there was a welcoming marauder community, there were french marauders (quite a lot) and german marauders (one large guild) and us - next to Toak and his guild and Subo of course - as english speaking marauders. All in all we were maybe 70 players - I'd guess. Back then RP rules - mostly enforced by the french players - were strickt! My guild was told straight away that by RP we was forbidden to act friendly towards any nation or religion and that we were to only interact (trade/training/hunting bosses) with mara faction. Taking into consideraton that there was good numbers I did not mind at all. In RP-style we were hated, we hated back, we got attacked, we attacked back ... all fine by me. OOC I still had a lot of friends in other factions of course, I always did and always will have.

Unfortunately, time has changed a lot of things in the marauder camp, and not to the best of things. Maybe what other players do not realize - either because they have no insight into marauder camp, hold to "old" believes or what ever - is how small marauder faction actually is. And please, I am talking about marauders, who actually live a marauder game, not those being in kami/kara/neutral guilds but having mara's bad fame and tps. Because these days, marauder faction maybe consists of 20 players. And not all are online at the same time as we are talking US and EU based. And these 20 players - yes - are mainly Syndicate. We try to keep up marauder-ism .. I am still fine with being hated, fine with being attacked .. but only playing inside our own faction, as all the other factions do, is near on impossible. And do I really want that?

So, what am I trying to say here (if only I knew) ... times have changed, server population has changed, rp should change too - to a certain extent and for certain events. I think everybody, who has even the smallest insight in marauder faction - be it through rl friends or maybe even having an alt in camp - knows, that we have it hardest going by the game! No occ, no events, not even a complete home with available NPCs, no nice faction/civ picks with wonderfull focus boost, no correctly working rite (i have been bugging about this for months now), special Anti-Marauder-Guards in EACH city now, but still half-assed guards in our own camp .. and the list goes on and on. And still we try to keep the faction going - a lot of people (like Virg for instance) even left their friends and kami-being behind to try and change something for the game. Do you really want to make it even harder for us to interact and enjoy the game? Yeah Yeah, the rp is important (not to me so much, but ok, whatever makes homins happy, right?) .. but rp can change into whichever direction, if the person "writing" the story wants it to.

My conclusion .. You dont want me at your fair? Fine by me, I certainly dont care .. But maybe take into consideration that keeping people away is your loss too, not just the loss of those not being allowed to attend.

Just my two dappers, of course ...

Peace!

Sera :-)