(03-04-2014, 06:04 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: It's still kind of active.
The NB also has a lot of Garlean alts, but most of us are rank and file under another character already.. and most of us play those unruly characters you hate so much(Playing well disciplined soldiers without any quirks or habits of our own sounds rather boring, to be honest).
It goes against lore, to be honest. Everyone wants to be a "special snowflake" to avoid being boring... but ironically, that creates a world of special snowflakes where the people who actually follow convention are the unique and rare ones. Quirks, sure, but people doing reckless things or being insubordinate would get them straight up executed in Garlean society. The Empire doesn't mess around. The Garleans are supposed to be a very disciplined, strict, psuedo-brainwashed army, not a bunch of typical bandits running around causing trouble whose players decided to slap the word "Garlean" onto their characters to make them more edgy and evil by default.
That being said, most of the Garlean characters I've come across in game are your typical directionless, erratic, evil-for-the-sake-of-evil villains and not... Garleans. I'm looking for Garleans. Well-disciplined and intelligent does not that mean they do not still have unique characteristics and personalities. Whether someone follows orders and whether someone does senseless things are not the only defining characteristics of a character's personality by any means. I don't care how other people choose to play their characters, but portraying Garleans as they're meant to be is far from boring. Â
