OOC: Recently, something came to mind. During my long time with MxO, I have had several ambitious Event ideas come to mind. Gang wars in Chinatown, massive conspiracies perpetrated by The General involving the Sculptures, Tengu's plots to spread his insane totalitarian beliefs into The Matrix- the list goes on. The problem with these Event concepts is that they simply are too ambitious to be made a reality. Even with the huge player base during the earlier days just after Beta, 75% of these ideas would not have been possible for a multitude of reasons. "Dragons of Grandeur", which was as ambitious as things got, had an Event Team as big, or perhaps bigger, than the current RP'er population of Recursion.
Given that we now have far less people to work with, and far less resources at our disposal by extension, it leaves the burning desire unfulfilled to create these things and make these ideas "real" in the game. It doesn't help when one also recalls that the Community demands more Events, but then refuses to attend ones created by players, instead only flocking to pointless "kidnap random liaison officer 1" farces put on by LESIG that lack any sort of coherent or engaging storyline.
But there is a possiblity to make some of these ideas come to light through the mission system. It requires that the player use their "imagination" and this can sometimes be a stretch. Especially when the NPC's in your mission are Cypherites and the description provided for you is supposed to be Commandos. However, those needing to power level to 50, or simply don't have anything better do, will find this a nice change of pace.
The concept is this: every week or month, a new group of missions are posted on the forums. These missions will be part of a coherent storyline, with plot twists every now and then, much like the SOE critical missions- only better. A mission type will be given along with a bit of background information, maybe a short story, and instructions from your Controller. This mission is to be played on Hard, and can be done with a team (a team is strongly encouraged). Completing all of the missions in a group will result in $information and storyline rewards, as well as special items (say, for example, a service ribbon ones character wears on their dress uniform in The Real and/or in The Matrix). Proof, of course, will be needed in order to prevent abuse. The Bank of Austrian does not have unlimited amounts of $info- it just has a lot. 
Proof comes in the form of a screenshot. This screenshot should include the following: the "mission completed" tab with the mission type displayed, the team roster (so I know who is to be credited), and the map tab (so I know it was at least started in the correct neighbourhood given in the instructions for the particular mission).
In case you are wondering, yes I plan for all Organizations to have missions in this. Sometimes one Organization might have more missions than the others, but, for the most part, they will all receive equal treatment. Cypherites, EPN, Zion, Machines, Merovingians- no one left out.
All I require is a list of character names and their respective Organizations to mail out these missions to. Sign up in this thread, and the missions will be on their way to you. Once you complete one mission, send an e-mail to Austrian through the in-game system announcing that you have completed your current mission and are waiting to move on to the next one. I'll then send you the next mission. In order to receive the reward for completing the whole series of missions, I'll need to have the information I mentioned earlier: screenshots with your "mission completed tab", the open map, and your mission team roster.
Good luck and I look forward to exploring the possibilities of this idea with the rest of the Community. Sign-up in this thread, if you're interested in receiving the missions.