(10-07-2013, 06:09 PM)SMI-Great.Fox Wrote: To Black Widow.
Your ideas only focus upon nothing more than to Pew.
So to help fix your statements with what you have failed to see, allow me to assist you.
1. RM Fighting the GMG.
Not going to happen due to a multitude of reasons. First off. GMG and Rheinland made good and have a multitude of contracts for fuel which helps to bring in money. Second. It's sheer lunacy. Attacking the GMG alone cuts off their fuel supplies and would be considered Economic suicide.
2. Rheinland working with the Exiles.
Not going to happen. Too much already has been done in working with the new Kusari Republic's Government. With Rheinland building new Kusari vessels to help generate income and put people to work, they wont throw that all away for nothing. Rheinland's shipbuilding companies, Dauman, Republican and ALG would be in an uproar over this for loosing their contracts to sheer stupidity.
3. Gallia is a trickle in the bucket.
Wrong again my friend. New money is good money. And despite the long trips, the finicial gain is quite worth it in the long run than it is in immediate terms. Gallia very recently just opened up its trade routes to Rheinland Corps, so such will be little at first. But money will be made in the long run.
4. Rheinland is dead without IC.
Rheinland hasn't collapsed since IC was removed for getting their hands too close to the flame. IC made the choice to work with the Hessians and now they're paying for it. Which is why Gallia's markets are open to assist from collapse.
Working alongside the Kusari Exiles is near pointless when so much is at stake with almost everything to loose.
(10-07-2013, 06:14 PM)Highland Laddie Wrote:
Quote:People get off on Inter-House conflict it's what they want to be popular you must give the people what they want not what fits in with regular boring lore that is disco now. Good Lore does not leave 2 Houses doing nothing.
Good lore also doesn't make a House do something irrational/suicidal just for the sake of in-game pews. That's what you can use pirate factions for, especially pirate factions that have fairly unique and extensive ship lines, like the Black Dragons and Red Hessians do. It seems like a major waste to give such attention to something apparently nobody really wants, even for the sake of keeping things close to Vanilla.
Gallia already as a "civil war" with the Council, but that hasn't necessarily boosted either faction significantly. We don't even HAVE an official GRN faction anymore, anyways, and they're fighting practically everybody!
Well the storyline could quite easily be adjusted to make a war between Rheinland and Kusari plausible, the facts given for why it would not be worth it are weak. Wow Daumann, will loose a few ship building contracts from this conflict but look at what they would gain if they won. More Shipping Contracts plus Gas Fields, thats even more incentive to go to war.
Gallia I dont believe is an avenue to a quick economic turn-around not enough to replace IC, Sigma's Gas fields are.
In relation to GMG vs Rheinland not being feasible I also do not believe that to be true, GMG are just a corporation just because they have a monopoly on the H-Fuel Market does not mean they are something to be reckoned with. They have no real military and one on one they have nothing to match Rheinland's Armada of Ships, for every GMG Bomber Rheinland has 10. Thus Rheinland would sweep GMG aside quite easily.
There is a massive Gas Cloud in Munich, Rheinland could discover new H-Fuel deposits there. GMG Fuel Crisis solved alternative fuel found, now we can go to war!
So you see the RP Idea I outlined is quite feasible, as Rheinland needs to rebuild and quickly they dont know how long the conflict with Gallia will last. For all they know, it will be over tomorrow and Liberty will be back knocking on their door. So its important to rebuild as fast as possible.
You see you have to look at things from a RP and Pew perspective, 100% RP is not fun neither is 100% Pew so there needs to be a fine balance with the two, a RP Universe in which two houses (Kusari and Rheinland) are doing nothing is boring and as such will do nothing to boost interest or activity because the only war right now is against the GRN.
Not everybody likes flying Bret, Lib or Gallic Ships some like Kusari Stuff some like Rheinland to be able not to use their houses capital ships in a meaningful RP Way i.e. some kind of conflict means people will loose interest that is why Kusari and Rheinland are empty now.
If disco wants to remain King you must give your fellow subjects (players) what they want, War on all fronts guarantees that possibility to say otherwise means you have your head in the sand.
People like building up their cash base on disco they enjoy trading and being able to buy their favourite capital ship, if they cant use that ship that they have always dreamed about flying then you have lost that player!
So choose your future:
1. Discovery small close-knit community with half baked lore only appealing to the veterans but will slowly die-off because of loss of interest!
or
2. Discovery Blown Wide-Open Mod, universe of possibility with fully-rounded lore where anything can happen with adventures in every part of Sirius not just Magellan!