No missions, no reputation, no live events, no liasons, and no more work on Rarebit's behalf. Make the org flag to everyone (including other freelancers). This is kind of a no brainer from a PvP perspective, but also incredibly valid from a RP standpoint. Some people don't want in on this war, and some people are sick and tired of all of the blatant favoritism and bureaucracy exhibited in every branch currently available to us, splinter org or no. Just allow factions to be formed.
This would be cool but tough to do, mainly because you'd have to basically make a separate org for each faction. If the neutrals aren't on the same side, that'd probably be tough to pull off. It sounds like faction wars more than anything.
Very unlikely, primarily because it would require that every character in the data base be changed to accomidate the "possibility" of being in these "new" orgs.
Just not really feasible from a technical stand point the danger to existing accounts is at this time an unacceptable risk.
Plus not having a full time DBA to manage our database and do all that work.
That and the fact that if everything was possible and put into place, it could still backfire if not administrated properly and with the demographic in mind. I think it would hurt more than help if we get to a point where we've got 80-85% of the population in "Neut" factions and three or four factions remaining in each of the respective orgs. (both "organization" and "organisation" work, by the way )
The primary reason there are so many sides in the story is for us to find where we stand as individuals and factions and how we fit in the grand scheme of things, which as we can see here presents us with the problem at hand. I think if having an independent group is not going to happen, we should examine what's wrong with the ones that do exist.
That and the fact that if everything was possible and put into place, it could still backfire if not administrated properly and with the demographic in mind. I think it would hurt more than help if we get to a point where we've got 80-85% of the population in "Neut" factions and three or four factions remaining in each of the respective orgs. (both "organization" and "organisation" work, by the way " width="15" height="15" />)
The primary reason there are so many sides in the story is for us to find where we stand as individuals and factions and how we fit in the grand scheme of things, which as we can see here presents us with the problem at hand. I think if having an independent group is not going to happen, we should examine what's wrong with the ones that exist.
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The story would likely collapse with every event drowning in a sea of anarchy (certainly on vector but probably everywhere).
I understand the idea from a PvP standpoint, but as far as the storyline goes, that doesn't make a whole lot of since to me. First of all, an independant is going to get in the way of all the other orgs, and most people are going to want to kill you. Allright, so you think you are cool enough to handle that? Well no org is going to want a neutral person to participate in their org meetings, so LE's are out. No critical missions...Basically, thats it. Interesting idea for PVP, not so much for storyline (unless you don't mind not receivng crits and LE's. Of course, the neutral players could just do their own events).
I understand the idea from a PvP standpoint, but as far as the storyline goes, that doesn't make a whole lot of since to me. First of all, an independant is going to get in the way of all the other orgs, and most people are going to want to kill you. Allright, so you think you are cool enough to handle that? Well no org is going to want a neutral person to participate in their org meetings, so LE's are out. No critical missions...Basically, thats it. Interesting idea for PVP, not so much for storyline (unless you don't mind not receivng crits and LE's. Of course, the neutral players could just do their own events).
Thats not necessaryily true. What about factions that want to work with / across multiple orgs. From an RP point of view it can be quite an interesting place to be. Now the idea about carrying a Neut tag doesnt illiminate you from working with orgs.. just youre beliefs may be slightly different from one org.. if you get what i mean. So it would be possible to create alliances on all sides.
As far as missions etc go, you could use Rep points to gain access to one org. The downfall here would be that if one player had mach rep they would have machine missions whereas another player could have zion rep.
I understand the idea from a PvP standpoint, but as far as the storyline goes, that doesn't make a whole lot of since to me. First of all, an independant is going to get in the way of all the other orgs, and most people are going to want to kill you. Allright, so you think you are cool enough to handle that? Well no org is going to want a neutral person to participate in their org meetings, so LE's are out. No critical missions...Basically, thats it. Interesting idea for PVP, not so much for storyline (unless you don't mind not receivng crits and LE's. Of course, the neutral players could just do their own events).
Thats not necessaryily true. What about factions that want to work with / across multiple orgs. From an RP point of view it can be quite an interesting place to be. Now the idea about carrying a Neut tag doesnt illiminate you from working with orgs.. just youre beliefs may be slightly different from one org.. if you get what i mean. So it would be possible to create alliances on all sides.
As far as missions etc go, you could use Rep points to gain access to one org. The downfall here would be that if one player had mach rep they would have machine missions whereas another player could have zion rep.
My issue is that it is almost impossible to work with more than one org if you take the official sotryline officially. Zion and the Machines are at War. That's kill on sight all out War. Would the machines want to work with someone who is on the opposing side? Not unless they were going to use said person as a spy- same can be said the other way around. Obviousely most redpills do not see exactly eye-to-eye on every org issue, which is why we have crews and factions.
If you want something different and independant, come and see me on recursion. It doesn't have to be as difficult as you think. I need two people willing to helm a branch in two of the three organiZations (<Z-hehe). This is truly freeing your mind I assure you.
