Okinawa Events with GMG vs Hogosha

[Dab]

Another question, should Kishiro "repair drones" be allowed?

Don't see why not. Prowler did say all ships would be allowed. Though I'd think it more likely to see DSE repair ships out helping the Kishiro and GMG escorts, or keeping the transports alive long enough to reach the Gate Construction site.

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[pipboy]

The Hogosha aren't going to hire any freelancers or mercs. The GMG is welcome to but the Hogosha want nothing to do with non Kusarians.

And the GMG only have around 10 members than our numbers are pretty close. I think we have 9 right now.

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[Friday]

I wouldnt mind seeing a Zoner convoy involved here.

The Hogosha have already made threats against the Zoners for trading in Okinawa - I would like to see the Zoners suck it up and actually make our alliance count for something!

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[Thexare]

The Hogosha aren't going to hire any freelancers or mercs. The GMG is welcome to but the Hogosha want nothing to do with non Kusarians.

Er... so Kusari Freelancers don't exist? Masayuki Minamoto is inclined to disagree. >_>

[Joshiee]

Im sure some Kishiro Technologies presence can be arranged. I will talk to our CEO about dispatching some of our security and service division (I.e. Repair ship AI's).

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[pipboy]

Er... so Kusari Freelancers don't exist? Masayuki Minamoto is inclined to disagree. >_>

Good point.

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[Tidomann]

I'd just like to drop this in here


*plop*

I'll be on my way.. 25th is an iffy for me, I'll know closer by monday


edit: I will admit, I'm going to be busy until things get settled until probably after the end of the month :O

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Hakatoa Yamota, Fuku-Honbucho in the Black Dragon Society

[ProwlerPC]

Sorry busy day.

Ok, I see a lot of positive responce to this, good good. Repair ships are fine and make perfect sense for both DSE and Kishiro. I've fought a couple battles before with players good at transfering bots and bats. It's all about the player being targeting alerting the group that he/she is a target and the repair ship knows who to monitor. You can keep your scan on and click through the players too, it's still one click away to open the trade window. As Dab pointed out, I feel any ships are allowed within the RP of factions involved, I am curious about what stratregies the players are going to take in these events.

Dab, thanks for the list of required info, as D's O mentioned I had planned on making a separate thread that displayed the results of each battle so the results will be reported in the events thread but placed in a display format in a second thread. I'll use the specifics you mentioned.

Zoners? this is the combatative aspect of the development of Okinawa something our Zoner allies aren't for. I have something for the Guild's Trade Division and the other trade factions as well. All three location require supplies and Zoner's won't be left out of that. A thread will come for that soon. (I have a job in RL, only available every second weekend too, heheh)

Independants? These events, as mentioned, earlier have real consequences to it, each side is headed by an official faction GMG| and [I]. I always felt strongly that major events like this is one of the benefits of paying up the 500mil and putting in the work and RP to be accepted as official. The leading factions are official and will oversee their part, even than official factions for allies will get priority seating with established unofficial factions following, independants as a last ditch resort (which means something like that wouldn't happen probably till several events later on, if that....) sorry, but I can shamelessly insert a recruitment attempt: Join GMG|.

Hired Help? Well this is always an interesting question. This is one topic that may be up for debate. I have conflicting views on it. It can easily get out of hand where more Merc/FL/BH show up for work than actual faction directly involved (mercenary wars, interesting but too much condidering they are foreigners). I'm not meaning this by a small amount of faction players showing, I'm talking about my PMs or the event thread filling up with requests. However, GMG is more tolerant of "gaijin" than their neighbours and has employed FL's and BHG in the past. While Hogosha is against "gaijin" sullying the Kusari space, Okinawa isn't Kusari space and they'd be sending "gaijin" to kill "gaijin". I've thought about the sides using hired help and if possible how it can be kept from gettig out of hand. Perhaps both sides (if this idea of hired help is wanted) can agree to make a flat rate and both post an almost exact replicas of help wanted in the employment forum. Restrictions negotiated as well. All this is hypothetical and really depends on an agreement between GMG| and [I].

Be back to check tommorow :sleep:

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[Thexare]

Independants? These events, as mentioned, earlier have real consequences to it, each side is headed by an official faction GMG| and [|]. I always felt strongly that major events like this is one of the benefits of paying up the 500mil and putting in the work and RP to be accepted as official.

Then don't let any random independents show up. I'd gladly fly around with [|] or GMG| to prove I'm not one of the idiots, not that I think it'd do a damn bit of good since a lot of people share your opinion.

I frankly don't care who paid $500mil. Y'know what that is? Just a bunch of trading typically completely unrelated to the faction in question (GMG being one exception, since it's a corporation of sorts). All I see that as is a way for the admins to lessen their work - not something I hold against the admins, but not something I consider a mark of quality. If an independent can RP well, why should be be excluded just because he doesn't want to be in your faction or pay half a billion credits to start his own? Hell, in some cases (my Hogosha characters, in fact), joining the faction might even go against their existing RP.

You can't buy quality RP, Prowler. Paying the admins half a billion credits doesn't do that. All it does is buy permission to post in the Faction Creation Requests forum. A faction isn't accepted based on how many credits are sent to the admins, it's accepted for the same reason most people get mentioned in the Kudos thread - quality of RP, something that is not exclusive to official factions, and not something that every member of every official faction has.


(Edit: And no, I'm not saying I'm the best RPer here. Far from it, I know I've got some serious flaws, like a tendency to want to kill things with fire. I just think you're wrong.)

[Tidomann]

From what I've experianced with BAF/KNF fights, there are plenty of people who enjoy showing up- waiting to take a bite of the KNF. Sometimes the -Reinforcement issue is a great problem, of course does it not make sense that as we get closer to Bretonia core, that we encounter more resistance? I guess- but for the sake of events, or winning it does seem a little unfair to throw the entire server into the fight.

If, what we have being suggested is a constant changing battleground, then I think we should have good defined slots before the battle. As always things change- and people cannot always make it. For this reason we should also have substitutes available to us aswell. This may be near impossible to do with timetable differances though.

As for indies and hired help- if they've proven themselves I don't think it should be TOO much of a problem, although they should very well be kept under control and not be the majority of the fight.

As for those commodities I posted- they're available for integration in the event, if we need it.

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Hakatoa Yamota, Fuku-Honbucho in the Black Dragon Society