(11-06-2014, 04:57 PM)Kage Wrote: This pertains more to those who RP in Limsa.
I'm not far into the Rogue line as I have more pressing things to do but... They talk about the code right? Piracy is -not- legal just simply tolerated? so long as they're pirateering non-Limsan stuff.
Has the code affected Limsan RPers stuff? Ie thieves who have stolen from someone  in Limsa or whatever worried about retribution by the Rogues?
Also, am I the only one who is bothered by the gun wielding lalagirl? >.>;
This was something that actually genuinely worried me when I came across it in the Rogue quest line.
Essentially, the "code" that's been established as a cultural/societal guideline in Limsa Lominsa is that, if you're Lominsan, you don't steal from / swindle / cheat your fellow Lominsans. The whole concept seems to have been born as a countermeasure to the sort of mutually destructive backstabbing that you'd expect out of a hastily-thrown-together alliance of banded-together pirates... which, of course, is exactly what the Maelstrom and the Yellowjackets started out as.
Furthermore, apparently the only way to keep the Admiral and her troops from coming down on a pirate crew's head is to 'go legitimate" by way of signing on as a privateer. That raises the odd question: most if not all seafaring vessels we see in Eorzea originate from Vylbrand, if not Limsa itself.... so who the hell else are these privateers stealing from?
So what you have is a situation where a lot of folks who'd be glad to slit each other's throats have been shoved into the same city-state and, by mutual agreement, decided to prey outwards instead of amongst themselves, which would make sense if FFXIV's world was large and diverse enough to support that... except it really isn't.
It gets awkward for Lominsan RP, particularly those of us with backgrounds in more questionable activities. I've reconciled my own issues with Square's new lore by looking to the criminal organizations shown in the Rogue quests and reasoning that large-enough gangs/crews, or small-enough-and-smart-enough-to-escape-notice gangs/crews, would essentially be ignored by the Admiralty provided they don't stir up shit. As for the Dutiful Sisters, I'm sure there's enough back and forth between the rogues' guild and less honorable thieves in Limsa to say that crime isn't quashed so hard in that city-state that it no longer exists, be it on a small or large scale.
EDIT: Not sure why Milala the Yellowjacket musketeer would be bothersome.
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