Btw guys it was already stated by even admin that CD spamming is technically engaging. So be very careful. Once someone tells you to quit it and you have no clearance to engage the player then you must stop.
How many times must I spell it out for you guys?
WE ARE NOT GOING TO CD SPAM ANYONE. There is a very definite distinction between threats and actions, my friend.
For the sake of clarification, it probably helps to think of WMD less as a traditional faction and more like a series of increasingly outlandish and outrageous news stories.
Long story short: we're not here to amass money and temporal power (exclusively), we don't get off on the suffering of other players (usually), our ultimate profit margin isn't measured in credits or capital ship hulls, it's measured in the amount of fun we can import, and the amount of activity "Howard Williams'" drunken antics can kick up.
This sort of thing isn't supposed to make us money, or give us license to indiscriminately grief other players (because that would be both against the rules, and a colossally dickish thing to do), it's supposed to do two things:
First, it's supposed to show who WMD is, as a faction. Instead of simply posting some kind of long-winded statement of principles, manifesto, or corporate history and force the entire server to go through half an hour of heavy reading, we've simply made our own character-establishing moment as a faction. Now everyone on the server knows who Williams-Mordhauser Distributing is in character: a sociopathic, ambiguously evil corporation with questionably competent leadership, and far more ambition than ability.
Secondly, it fulfills our primary objective of giving the other players on the server something to react to, something to play off against. WMD doesn't have to fire a single missile for this whole scheme to become a success, so long as people are going "You know those WMD sociopaths who just tried to copyright the most profitable route in the sector?" That's what we're on about with this faction: to get people talking, to get them RPing in reaction to aforementioned antics, and occasionally to run some events (all within server rules and with the appropriate permission of course) which might have some concrete material consequences to back us up.
Arturo Fernando Konstantin de Malinovsky y Ruiz - Head of Security, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Every man's honour comes at a price. I assure you that mine is quite reasonable."
Ctesiphon Jones - Business Associate, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "I shoulda' just bribed that tenure board..."
Courtesy post, in case anybody missed our entire faction going inactive or me relaying our members gripes into Disco Discord.
WMD, as a whole, all six of us fresh faces to the community, has decided that Discovery was not worth the time and effort we were putting in.
On my end, it was not uncommon to spend entire afternoons on the forums filtering the absolute bile that our so-called Board of Directors spewed into faction discord into polite-sounding corporate bull. That was fun, but, honestly, it's pretty No disheartening to see people not even bother to pick up the phone. I could link the threads, but I CBA. It's all on the faction account anyway. Out of all the people we contacted, I can count the ones that actually bothered to RP with us on half a hand - we had some real good No fun trading smacktalk with the Blood Dragons (and laughing at >anime character picture), but that's about it. Even that was left hanging - we sent the BD account a PM about what comes next, we could escalate into a showdown or quietly back off. There was no reply.
The BAF didn't even pick up the No phone when we dangled a free goddamn destroyer hull in front of them, the Liberty Navy is a pewfaction that we wrote off as soon as we saw the battlecruisers camping Manhattan. Navy actually became a slur for us - that's how we'd insult people who hated fun, call them Navy. We were thinking about setting up a loansharking scheme with the Hessians, playing off their protection racket, but whats-his-face didn't respond to the non-disclosure agreement we PM'd him. The GCs and Hogosha turned out the same - we started a conversation, traded a few posts, left the ball in their court, and they didn't reply. Not even a very polite "nah m8 piss off", just silence. Even the little bitty I did with some ex-Navy guy who wanted to join the Hellfire Legion turned out poorly. I dropped him a line, we talked with Durandal (running Hellfire), met up ingame and did some roleplay. Except even that went poorly, because the Hellfires just grabbed their guy and No off into the asteroids - absolutely zero interest in roleplaying with a Very Suspicious Legitimate Trader. Like the roleplay was an obligation, rather than the raison d'etre.
This conclusion is shared by my entire faction. In Israelhexen (ie Donnie)'s words, "We've made a significant investment here, but we're seeing no returns and no potential for growth.". In Mordhauser's words, "I don't feel particularly welcome here." I've said my piece above, Cormig had no comment, and Cataphrak wrote five No paragraphs to the point of "This is why your server is dying".
I've been meaning to write this for a while - a final farewell, as it were.
All profanity and caustic 4chan No aside, I'm kinda sad it turned out this way. I brought six newbies here, and we were going to have fun in space. And we did have fun in space. But none of us were really welcomed into the community, nobody really engaged with us, and even when we went out of our way to engage with people who were similarly neglected, they didn't even bother to pick up the phone. We all put in a fair bit of time and effort, and we didn't really get anything out of it.
If nothing else, I want people to know.
Six newbies came here
Six newbies had fun for a week
Six newbies unanimously decided:
"This isn't worth the effort."
Six newbies left
If you cannot control your emotions to contribute to a discussion thread, you might abstain from posting. Words removed.
Howard Williams - CEO, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Just try and stop us"
Caroline Convair - General Secretary, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Please excuse the CEO"