The following factions have failed to meet activity requirements for remaining official for the month:
[M]-
SCRA
This is your first month dropping below official faction activity requirements. One more month of low activity will place yourselves in jeopardy of losing your official faction status.
The following factions have dropped below official faction activity requirements for two months out of the last four:
EFL
Gateway
GMG
XA-
These factions have two weeks to file a Hardship Request found here. Please post your request here, following the template and answer the questions in detail so we can get a good idea of what's going on and what you might be doing to improve your activity, if anything. If you qualify for the Hardship program, your faction will remain in Suspended status until you find yourselves above official faction activity requirements. Please read carefully the details regarding the Hardship Program provided in the link above.
The following faction has failed to meet official faction activity requirements and has failed to apply for the Hardship program:
IC
I'm sure you guys were expecting this, but we are going to have to remove you from the list of official factions. Please make sure those with the IC tag equip the NPC ID, so that we can give the Player faction ID to another faction that might rise in your place, minus the tag and faction information of course.
2. Reasons you believe your Faction is not meeting activity requirements. I believed the faction was not meeting the requirements due to the former leadership, in its place the members have voted me in to lead their faction to a greater good they went inactive without reason and didn't stand down giving anyone else to take the advantage and give GMG what it needs. (Activity) that I believe is the reason for not meeting the activity requirements. Nobody was motivated, nobody was active. Until last night...
3. Steps you are taking, or feel need to be made, in order to reinvigorate your faction, if any. I believe renovation is key, I'm planning to redo all contracts and alliances, I've already started a new skype channel to filter out those who no longer wish to be GMG and who actually wish to play and become active, now being a member is simply not enough. You must earn the right to be a GMG Member.
I also believe the structure which remains of two ranks, Guild master and Guildsman needs to change to give a positive outcome on activity, so people need to be active to retain a better leadership position.
I also believe in Payroll systems, where people are paid for their work and can collect bonus's this also promotes activity.
I believe doing all this will replenish GMG to a newer state and be a more active and fun faction to be in.You can see current contracts below are being talked on regarding Helium-3
4. How long do you expect your low activity to continue? I expect us to pick up in no more than two months, I've already taken the leadership position and already asked a fair amount of people who are thinking about writing applications to join us, now I am the current leader. Due to the old nature of the last management this may take some time and patience and all we need is a chance to prove the community we're here to stay and we can do this if we pull together. If anyone out there right now is reading this and is not a member. Think of the opportunistic moments you may have being a GMG Trader, you don't always have to mine you know? Think on it, and yes you may apply.
5. What recent role play contributions has your faction made toward the server, ingame, and on the forum? (Provide links to forum role play, screenshots or chat logs from ingame activity.) This one's easy? How do you make GMG active and the rest of Sigma brighten up like a light bulb? Work with admins and the dev team to spot light GMG for a moment. http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=130097 (Spontaneous random event) - Big thanks to Garrett_Jax and other stafff who assisted him.
At the moment GMG's characters all started new yesterday so the activity will not be shown as of yet but please do happily keep an eye on us for a spike that shall come sharply.
We're also consulting Stone Bro's Inc (Former IC) regarding commerce in Sigmas and the POB's within the area to renovate contracts within the GMG to also boost activity within both sectors. IC & GMG... shown here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=125974
I'm formally requesting to the admins to give us patience whilst we understand the reasons for why GMG went down the last time and hopefully work together to get this faction back up and running to its former glory.
Yours Faithfully, Bellck. (Guildmaster C,Cong) Gas Miners Guild
2. Reasons you believe your Faction is not meeting activity requirements. Many of our active players have been busy in RL with school and other issues
3. Steps you are taking, or feel need to be made, in order to reinvigorate your faction, if any. I plan to focus more on recruitment and doing more in-game convoying with our active allies and friendly factions, as well as coordinating with a more active Bowex on fun PvP activity, and continue in Dock Module production and Ore sales at Oceana Shipping Platform.
4. How long do you expect your low activity to continue? I hope to have us back up to regularly active status within 2 months
5. What recent role play contributions has your faction made toward the server, in-game, and on the forum? (Provide links to forum role play, screenshots or chat logs from ingame activity.)
2. Reasons you believe your Faction is not meeting activity requirements. No major sources of activity though recent events may change that.
3. Steps you are taking, or feel need to be made, in order to reinvigorate your faction, if any. If you could buff Oil to Leeds it would be nice and make some Rp sense seeing as Oil is the only source of Fuel for the Gallic Royal navy. Other then that, maybe the addition of a Scrap Metal sell point in Gallia Proper.
4. How long do you expect your low activity to continue? A Month or two, hopefully not much longer.
5. What recent role play contributions has your faction made toward the server, in game, and on the forum? (Provide links to forum role play, screenshots or chat logs from in game activity.) http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=130168
2. Reasons you believe your Faction is not meeting activity requirements.
A lot of the current members have lost their motivation to play the game and are currently playing other stuff. Which I am perfectly fine with, I don't feel they should be forced to play something they aren't interested in at the moment. This did make things a lot harder for us when we knew we'd most likely be flying solo. But this shouldn't be much of an issue for us anymore as we have had some guys rejoin us.
3. Steps you are taking, or feel need to be made, in order to reinvigorate your faction, if any.
As I said, we have already had two older XA players return to the faction and that has given us some motivation once again to go out there and cause a ruckus. So I will definitely be making the effort to log more often to give the rest of the guys someone to join out there. Despite the low activity we have, I still love XA and everything it stands for.
4. How long do you expect your low activity to continue?
We already have activity spikes and feel more alive as a faction. So you could say we expect it to not be an issue at all.
5. What recent role play contributions has your faction made toward the server, ingame, and on the forum? (Provide links to forum role play, screenshots or chat logs from ingame activity.)
This may be the tricky one for us as we don't have much forum role play to do. Nor do we actively look for it on the forums. However ingame we do love to cause trouble in Liberty and despite what most people may think about us, we do enjoy RP'ng our characters (when we aren't being shot up) As such, here is a little recent screen of some of that: http://i.imgur.com/9i30ayR.png http://i.imgur.com/Zaj2aBN.png
A screen of us shooting down an Outcast GB in California shortly after that RP encounter: http://i.imgur.com/aPMeUI0.png
And a couple days ago, we logged in numbers although the tracker failed to track two of our ships due to it still being outdated at that time. We had five of us roaming around Liberty with some HellFire members and he took this screen of four of us with him: http://i.imgur.com/MQldrsu.png
On a final note from us. I know we don't contribute a whole lot on the forums. But we definitely do quite a bit ingame when we are around. You can definitely expect a unique encounter from us if you happen to pass us by. You can expect more from us in the next couple of months for sure as well.
We've looked over the Hardship requests for this month. I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but two factions have been declined.
Xeno Alliance - Your request has PASSED - The [A]dmins want a few rolls of your highest quality Duct Tape please.
EFL - Your request has FAILED - The reasoning behind this should be relatively simple. The single link you provided us with legitimate RP you've done, doesn't really.. mean much. EFL has lost it's status as an Official Faction - If you think you can bring things back, you're more than welcome to try again.
Gateway Shipping - Your request has PASSED - Trade and RP away!
GMG - Your request has FAILED - Oh dear.. This pains me to say. You started to pick up. You were a bit too late though. If only you were a little sooner at things, you probably would have passed. Before the hardship date though, you don't really have anything to show for it. The GMG was mostly blank. I'm sorry folks, but you've failed the application. - You're more than welcome to aim for Official again. Keep this up, you'll make it too.
Quote:GMG - Your request has FAILED - Oh dear.. This pains me to say. You started to pick up. You were a bit too late though. If only you were a little sooner at things, you probably would have passed. Before the hardship date though, you don't really have anything to show for it. The GMG was mostly blank. I'm sorry folks, but you've failed the application. - You're more than welcome to aim for Official again. Keep this up, you'll make it too.
As someone who actively helps GMG to get on their feet again, I would just like to comment that this decision comes as a big disappointment. I think progress after Belck's taking over is clearly visible. The decision to "not honour" the huge progress (it's not what you intend, obviously, but it's how it is received nonetheless) is a very effective means of demotivating those who have been trying really hard and who have come a long way in little time.
Anyway, that's the facts now. I hope Belck just re-applies immediately and we get some shortened application procedures due to a rather harsh decision here and now. That would be a means of showing appreciation of effort spent.
(06-12-2015, 07:24 AM)King Boo Wrote: We've looked over the Hardship requests for this month. I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but two factions have been declined.
GMG - Your request has FAILED - Oh dear.. you don't really have anything to show for it.
We've built the GMG faction from 74th (of the activity list) to the 24th, we've also boosted alot of activity in sigma's (Tell me where I'm wrong)
Here's a few links to the amount of input to RP the GMG Leadership and Faction has put into the game in the past (2 WEEK) I don't think any other faction has committed this much RP.)
So when you say you don't really have anything to show for it, it really has annoyed my members. Cause we do, and I don't see why that wasn't enough is there official list that we must do to show who we are? I'd like to see it please?
I know a few other faction leaders are not happy with the slam on GMG, when encouragement would have been better. You've decided this when you've only given factions (2 week of hardship, and we was the first to write a letter) out of a full month everyone else gets?
Disappointed and that's holding my tongue, but fear not we WILL become official again. I hope you can now see you've made the wrong decision. (But I'd love to see this list of what we didn't show? or what we didn't do?)
Like I said at the start, 74th (of the activity list) to the 24th in 2 WEEKS, if you give us the same rights as official factions then shouldn't we get 4 weeks?... I request your reconsideration on this matter as I do not think the community will be happy with this. If need be, keep us on the Hardship Program and till we improve our activity. For the next two weeks.
(06-12-2015, 07:24 AM)King Boo Wrote: GMG - Your request has FAILED - Oh dear.. This pains me to say. You started to pick up. You were a bit too late though. If only you were a little sooner at things, you probably would have passed. Before the hardship date though, you don't really have anything to show for it. The GMG was mostly blank. I'm sorry folks, but you've failed the application. - You're more than welcome to aim for Official again. Keep this up, you'll make it too.
What i witnessed from Kishiro's perspective from the time that GMG got resurrected up until now, pertaining to GMG's activity is an absolutely engaged, determined and active participation. They have developed/re-developed diplomatic channels with different factions, they have hosted Helium-3 operations, consistently filled up Shuri Base in okinawa with stock, they where communicating with Kishiro on a daily basis, they set several plans for future developments, without them this incentive for Kishiro would had not been possible. They started to actively look into a possible GMG gunboat project, they joined Kusari Dev chat and expressed opinion's to future developments, the hosted several Sigma security patrols, that i have actively participated in, the recruited several new members and brought a dead faction to a completely, abundantly active participant to the scene. The done 10x more than what some other official factions currently doing.
I respectfully disagree with the decision, and would like to request a reconsideration. Don't kill something that just started to flourish, it is in my perspective counter-constructive to the community.
Since we all have RP stuff in the pipeline most of us will still consider them the official GMG regardless. If there's no other way they have the support of about half the server to become offcial again.
![[Image: rSYoqYY.png]](https://i.imgur.com/rSYoqYY.png)
![[Image: Final_Sig_US_2_blue_ship.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903663430207152128/904134583510007819/Final_Sig_US_2_blue_ship.png)
![[Image: THsCLuA.png]](http://i.imgur.com/THsCLuA.png)
![[Image: fnPLZH6.png]](http://i.imgur.com/fnPLZH6.png)
![[Image: 26PSva8.png]](http://i.imgur.com/26PSva8.png)
![[Image: RALsZal.png]](http://i.imgur.com/RALsZal.png)
