...Okay, I guess I didn't explain my problem well enough for you to understand?
First of all, thank you for the clarification on what the Rocket community is for, but as an outsider who does not play a Rocket and has no intention of playing a Rocket simply because it doesn't fit my play style, I have no idea what goes on in that community. It's not like the breeding community, because the breeding community is not screened. I can see what goes on in the breeding community. Heavy plotting does not go down in the breeding community, or at least, I don't consider egg sales to be heavy plotting especially with the number of people who don't put up IC egg posts, which I see as wasted opportunity, but that's their choice and not my problem and off topic. And as I can't see what goes on in there and the community was recently revamped, how am I supposed to know that it's not a direct line of contact? Or at least, a direct-er line. After all, you guys will see entries from it on your friends lists, while you miss PMs and e-mails. So while maybe I've come to the wrong conclusion, you have to admit that it's a pretty easy conclusion to come to.
More pressing, however, is the consequences thing, which I still have to disagree with you on. A bunch of characters didn't get promotions because the mods decided such - I wouldn't know that if you didn't tell me here, because it isn't a thing that would come up in any posts ICly, and please point me toward where it was done OOCly because I haven't seen that either, since it's probably in a screened Rocket post. One stealth mission was botched and three Rockets were positively identified. Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that nobody else could affect that. One of the players put up a plotting post. That would have been fine, if there had been any way for other characters to affect the outcome. But there wasn't, because you said "Please note that all of these Rockets will get away with these missions; though we encourage you to react to and plot with our mission participants, we've guaranteed their success (and even granted a few promotions) this time around!"
And it's not like these are small, isolated incidents, either! They were attacking major landmarks! The Goldenrod Pokemon Center is the Pokemon Center in the middle of the most populated city in Johto. There would be lots of player characters around, some of whom have powerful teams. And it being a Pokemon Center, some of these teams would be there at odd hours of the night, too. And yet you're telling me that merely three Rockets would definitely get away with things, facing all of that? How? You can't tell me that no super-strong trainers would be at the Pokemon Center. And yet the Center was broken into and destroyed and the Rockets were merely identified, not stopped, Gyms are constantly attacked and the culprits get away with it despite the Gyms housing elite trainers who hang out around them, and it's always assumed that he player characters won't be around to do anything useful, or that any of their efforts would be in vain (like the fruitless battle to stop Suicune from being captured).
If a group of player characters were to get together and attempt to attack the Radio Tower and get away with it, I'm sure all of Team Rocket would be up in arms, and rightly so. So why isn't the same courtesy given to the Pokemon Center in the most populated city in Johto? Maybe if it was, say, Cherrygrove, which nobody above level 10 visits ever, then it would be one thing. But you can't just assume.
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First of all, thank you for the clarification on what the Rocket community is for, but as an outsider who does not play a Rocket and has no intention of playing a Rocket simply because it doesn't fit my play style, I have no idea what goes on in that community. It's not like the breeding community, because the breeding community is not screened. I can see what goes on in the breeding community. Heavy plotting does not go down in the breeding community, or at least, I don't consider egg sales to be heavy plotting especially with the number of people who don't put up IC egg posts, which I see as wasted opportunity, but that's their choice and not my problem and off topic. And as I can't see what goes on in there and the community was recently revamped, how am I supposed to know that it's not a direct line of contact? Or at least, a direct-er line. After all, you guys will see entries from it on your friends lists, while you miss PMs and e-mails. So while maybe I've come to the wrong conclusion, you have to admit that it's a pretty easy conclusion to come to.
More pressing, however, is the consequences thing, which I still have to disagree with you on. A bunch of characters didn't get promotions because the mods decided such - I wouldn't know that if you didn't tell me here, because it isn't a thing that would come up in any posts ICly, and please point me toward where it was done OOCly because I haven't seen that either, since it's probably in a screened Rocket post. One stealth mission was botched and three Rockets were positively identified. Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that nobody else could affect that. One of the players put up a plotting post. That would have been fine, if there had been any way for other characters to affect the outcome. But there wasn't, because you said "Please note that all of these Rockets will get away with these missions; though we encourage you to react to and plot with our mission participants, we've guaranteed their success (and even granted a few promotions) this time around!"
And it's not like these are small, isolated incidents, either! They were attacking major landmarks! The Goldenrod Pokemon Center is the Pokemon Center in the middle of the most populated city in Johto. There would be lots of player characters around, some of whom have powerful teams. And it being a Pokemon Center, some of these teams would be there at odd hours of the night, too. And yet you're telling me that merely three Rockets would definitely get away with things, facing all of that? How? You can't tell me that no super-strong trainers would be at the Pokemon Center. And yet the Center was broken into and destroyed and the Rockets were merely identified, not stopped, Gyms are constantly attacked and the culprits get away with it despite the Gyms housing elite trainers who hang out around them, and it's always assumed that he player characters won't be around to do anything useful, or that any of their efforts would be in vain (like the fruitless battle to stop Suicune from being captured).
If a group of player characters were to get together and attempt to attack the Radio Tower and get away with it, I'm sure all of Team Rocket would be up in arms, and rightly so. So why isn't the same courtesy given to the Pokemon Center in the most populated city in Johto? Maybe if it was, say, Cherrygrove, which nobody above level 10 visits ever, then it would be one thing. But you can't just assume.
That's my problem.