I feel like rebels are sort of falling back into their old ways at least from my observations
My hopes were generally that the resistance would be more of a unified force, and seeing as how resistance is now the default for any new player the way people generally act is disappointing
The weird gear caste system is returning where a players worth is decided by what they are wearing and what weapons they have equipped. Every single character aside from one that I've made so far has been a bluesuit (the exception being a char with some medic BGs).
Rebels tend to ignore bluesuits, I've tried talking with them a bunch of times, base and away only to be met with a blank stare before they run off to look at a container, change their bodygroups or to interact with their clique, and maybe I haven't been around enough but I very rarely encounter actual character conversations (by that I mean that a majority of conversations are about gear or something of the sorts instead of discussions about the characters themselves)
Vorts were usually the go-to for these kinds of things but I've been treated the same by a few (AKA people treating vorts like rebels with built in guns, most are cool though)
My point is there is just no passive roleplay on that side, unless its to further their own goals, I constantly walk into the base just to see people standing around AFK and what few convos there are are people talking about guns or gear or their next planned excursion or complaints in looc
Earlier today there was a crate that people retrieved from some sort of event with ammunition and weapons and I saw a dude with a rifle and some weird blacksuit model barter for another gun and ammunition for like five minutes, the dude then whinged about it for the next thirty minutes on the radio begging for another gun (thankfully people told him to shut up but christ)
While that was going on, someone who I'm guessing was a LAMBDA event char based on their description was trying to roleplay on the radio, asking about another character, trying to create some roleplay and he didn't get a single response. A majority of these armoured rebels have a radio, there's a radio inside the base itself and I was like the only person who answered and asked about it further.
The only time they seem to activate is again when there's some sort of benefit or goal to them, or when there's some sort of conflict so they can go out and shoot
My point was that citizen RP was focused on passive RP and characters themselves in the previous iterations, I'm not sure what's going on in the Union side right now but when I used to play CP you used to get a lot of that when there was down-time too. There's just none of that on the rebel side
There is no race for gear, consequences for failure are pretty much null, I don't get why people still act like this
