MSN Server Meeting Results

Earlier today there was a major meeting with representatives of a wide spectrum of CF clans. Due to massive consensus we have taken RP measures that will bring back the good days of old and, if all goes as planned, revamp the quality of gameplay here like never before. The following are some general conclusions we made:

1. Non-serverclan players MUST have a license for their RP to engage in it.

2. Clans with an established RP must NOT partake in other RPs unless there is some sort of exception in play. As Gunny summed it up: Police are police, traders are traders, and pirates are pirates. Period.

3. No more bickering, and no more clanwars unless absolutely necessary. This revival of RP should be fun and inclusive to all players, and personal disputes and flaming could ruin it... for everyone.

4. Anyone who reads this (with the exception of BG) needs to adopt policy that somehow incorporates the meetings results. It is for the good of the server and will make things a lot more fun for everyone.

5. As always, using the F1 command to switch chars out of a conflict or RP scenario for the purpose of cutting your losses or escaping a situation is incredibly rude and dishonorable. Respect the other players and the server by abstaining from such cowardice.

6. Never tresspass, trade, or commit other unallowed acts in clanspace. If you do not have permission to be in a clan's system then don't go in. No exceptions.

Also, the following should be brought into effect as soon as possible this applies to not only serverclans, but other clans and freelancers as well.

Police RP:

Police are to run regular patrols of Sirius, hunting down smugglers, issuing fines, and killing pirates. Police are to cooperate and be friendly with one another. They are to act lawfully at all times and operate out of their clansystem / station of operations, docking nowhere when possible (hence the word patrol, not occupation). The goal of this is to force police to be responders to emergencies, not an F1-press away from a problem. Patrols should be aimed at implementing the law with maximum effect, but should keep numbers down to about 2 police per system unless reinforcements are called in for. This way police can interact with the other RP modes realistically for the sake of good RP.

Trader RP:

Traders this is going to be a shock to you but we need to be trading all the time. Lol, freighters and trains, need to be making trans-house runs legitimately and predictably. BMG or certain commodities should only be traded under occasional Government Contract, which is justified as transferal of material from one House government to another. Mercs should be hired as escorts from time to time, police hailed when in distress, and money shelled out (reasonably) to pirates when theyve clearly disabled your ship or caught you in a tight place.

Pirate RP:

Pirates will be empowered by taxing. They will stalk space using their ships and Mercs to ambush, capture, and loot. They will also smuggle, do arms sales, and act as something of CFs equivalent to the mafia (killing competitors and maintaining their turf) though taxing should be the highest priority. Hopefully the pirates will be aggressive and efficient, giving the police a lot of work to do and make the traders sweat. When traders are "boarded" or "captured" (in other words, when you're surrounded and/or damaged extensively with no surviving escorts) a policy of not paying up is unexceptable and unrealistic. They've caught you, so cough it up.

Merc RP:

Mercs need to advertise themselves and look for work. Traders need them for escorts (50% cuts of profits have been proposed), pirates for reconnaissance, assassinations, and the like, and police for bounty hunting. If a base provides an NPC mission for it, you'll probably find similar jobs for the players. Other, miscellaneous tasks will likely arise, but it is your responsibility to get your hands dirty and find ways to make money.
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If I have missed any of the meetings points or measures, plz reply with your addition to this summary. It is important that the 13 of us who were present explain this to everyone else and force it into effect. Thank you for your time and we hope your quality of gameplay is about to skyrocket.

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Originally posted by C9H14NO3
ok, i can understand the most of it. I will accept the point i dislike.

And i have two more question for my personal understanding:

1) When calling reinforcements - I suppose that they won´t be allowed to switch chars too - did i get it?

2) Why BG stands by side? Mustn´t we have a clear agreement from all serverclans?

edit ps.: I passed the meeting too unfortunal what a pitty...

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1. When you call in for police assistance the nearest patrol will either have to detour to help you or units will have to be dispatched from the police's base - that way police can't F1 to the scene of the crime.

2. BG is OP's clan. We at the meeting decided that it would be best not to force BG to comply to anything (especially since no BG were present at the meeting). It will be up to OP to chose what he wants to do with his clan. If he wants to play a role in this revived scheme we will galdly incorporate him and his RP, otherwise we will not obligate BG to our terms.

edited to prevent flaming and misinformation

edited to prevent flaming and misinformation

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Originally posted by Gunny
NO ONE said you could not escort your own freight, what WAS said is; To encourage the use of Mercs, this is what we think needs to be done, by promoting the use of mercs to escort trade, do intel missions for the police, let the pirates hire them to find out who is trading what.......

I asked if we could escort our own freighters or use capitol ships for trade and the replies were that mercs should be doing the escorting and trading clans should only escort themselves on big runs like Sol... I'll adjust my first post accordingly and edit out others completely. Hope this clears up most of your outrage IOC

This is dragged over from the police clans' new RP thread.

This is just a thought... maybe a bad one, but perhaps it'd be more witty for the clans to use NPC bases of the same RP allignment... maybe even have a faction or two as sponsors of sorts? That is, have clans have the same NPC allies and enemies as NPC factions equivelent to them (say for pirates militaries, companies, and police are hostile, terrorist factions are neutral, and pirates are allied for instance)? That way the kinds of bases pilots could land at and access via F1 would be directly linked to what kind of clan they are in, encouraging RP not only with the NPCs we so often ignore but also make the players experience the CF universe in a realistic perspective.

Besides, imao F1 isn't a means to teleport a pilot to the scene of action, but rather a means of switching pilots altogether. I don't advocate using F1 to get to or out of a scenario directly, but I feel no shame in using it to get 2 systems from the action if I'm presently 6 away. If a man were to be shot here in Kalispell I don't call the police in Great Falls 150 miles away... I call the guys in town because they're 146 miles closer. I get how this scheme works, but if there's a pirate attack somewhere like Dresden or Omega-3 there isn't the slightest chance of you getting there from Tarsus before it's all over. If we were meant to have all our eggs in one basket we wouldn't be allowed to have 5 chars.

I think we're onto something, but when I want to visit Murmansk having to do it from Neophobos and then come back before I "leave work" is a bit too "realistic" for me (especially since people don't always know when they'll need to log off). Besides, lol, do you think it makes any sense for me to have 8 characters in Neophobos and 7 at Colorado?

I don't mean to say that my idea is better, just that we may want to give some more thought to how to best apply this home-base concept. Anyone have thoughts about this, or is this going to be an issue addressed by clans individually?