In-character, we are a corporation of professional smugglers specializing in Sirius-wide distribution of all manner of illegal and/or immoral cargo.
Out of character, we are unified by our desire to create fun, and to bring fun where there was none before. This is why some of our first in-character posts were to engage the flagging Kusari unlawful factions, it is also why we have done something so incredibly outlandish as to copyright a trade route. That Non-Disclosure Agreement in our paperwork thread has actually been used, and I am still sorry for subjecting the recipient to it. I can't speak for other members, but I also plan to talk with the BAF regarding Leeds, and hopefully turn that into a weekend event.
***Unofficial Documentation, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing***
***Author Identified: General Secretary Caroline Convair***
Caroline Convair woke up.
The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, her bed was extremely comfortable, the window showed an exceptionally beautiful view of the Edge nebula, and her house smelled pleasantly of breakfast. Indeed, her domestic servant had just finished cooking a batch of delicious waffles, with a side of potatoes, bacon, and even an egg. The broadcasted news was good, the stock market was on an upward trend...yes, today was going to be a good day.
And then the news reports switched to a special report on a horribly unethical corporation that had, in violation of every trade regulation in Sirius (estimated), filed patent and copyright on the most popular trade route in the sector. Oh dear. She immediately called the office, only to be met with vaguely-coherent panicked noises from the hand-picked receptionist. If it was enough to un-nerve the normally unflappable receptionist, then she needed to be in the office eight hours ago.
No, today was not going to be a good day. Not at all.
...
The office was alight with activity. Or, perhaps, it would be more accurate to say that things would have been better of it was merely on fire. Chief Executive Williams' latest "hare-brained scheme" had turned out to be very hare-brained indeed, with angry letters from every corner of Sirius. The Freelancers were mad. The Xenos were mad. The IMG was mad. The Rheinland Police was mad. The Ghosts of Razgriz were mad. Atlantic Manufacturing was mad. The National Council was mad. The owners of the space station were mad. The fledgling business contacts in Kusari space were almost certainly going to clam up. The Junkers had even issued an official denouncement. Williams, how, in God's name, do you even manage to piss off the Junkers?
So if I understand the concept, you have "trademarked" certain trade routes, and if you see people doing this route you are going to CD spam them because the Freelancer ID forbids pirating?
(07-24-2016, 04:07 AM)Shryke Wrote: So if I understand the concept, you have "trademarked" certain trade routes, and if you see people doing this route you are going to CD spam them because the Freelancer ID forbids pirating?
Yes, I have copyrighted and patented the trade route which is, by far and away, the easiest, safest and quickest way to make money. I'd like to point out that we don't actually have the expertise or manpower to reliably enforce that, but please feel free to contact us with a mercenary contract.
I would also like to clearly state my utter loathing for this trade route, due to the fact that it has single-handedly obsoleted every other trade route in the game, and that there is no longer any reason to haul anything else, to anywhere else, aside from fluff and roleplaying. Fluff and roleplaying don't matter one bit when you just want to grind credits, and thus traders flowing through Hudson like water. It's disgusting.
(07-24-2016, 04:07 AM)Shryke Wrote: If you see people doing this route you are going to CD spam them because the Freelancer ID forbids pirating?
No, that's blatant dickery. Blatant dickery, whether or not it's technically within the rules, is directly contrary to everything I, my faction, and my faction members stand for. It's my understanding of the rules that, while pinning people to the wall for hours with cruise disruptors is technically legal, doing so will get you removed from the community real ****ing fast. The most important observation we've made is that the rules are arbitrary now, and we don't need to break them to get permabanned.
Williams-Mordhauser's out-of-character goal is to Create Fun. Simply demanding credits from people is not very fun for either party involved. Since, apparently, ID rules supersede faction roleplay (WHY) that simply means we'll have to get more creative with 'punishing' them for 'violating our intellectual property'. We've got a number of ideas floating around, including 'encouraging' traders to purchase escort contracts on the spot, forcing people to run slaves and cardamine for us at gunpoint, co-opting them into one of our smuggling convoys, switching all their turrets to Pirate Turrets and flying into Manhattan, sending them into the Zone 21 minefield, reading terrible fanfiction to them...
There's *so* many ways to mess with people, limited only by your creativity. Why would anybody settle for simple griefing when they could aspire to so much more?
What Psy is saying is that even if we IC'ly threaten to CD spam people, there is no way we are actually going to do that. That would be utterly dickish to pull. We are entirely, 100% aware that our "copyright claim" is not enforceable.
So rest assured, there will be no griefing taking place on our part. You guys reacting in disgust, IC'ly, and I suppose OOC'ly, to "the depths this unethical corporation is ready to sink" is exactly what was supposed to happen.
We are *totally* an unethical corporation, by the way. Like, if there was an "Evil Corporation ID", that's what we'd be flying. Our logo is Weyland-Yutani for god's sake. Our official comms come mostly from a "General Secretary". We have in-character lawyers, and even worse, paperwork.
Every time someone calls WMD horrible, immoral, unethical, morally bankrupt, et cetera, I want to hop on our official account and say "We appreciate the compliment"
Howard Williams - CEO, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Just try and stop us"
Caroline Convair - General Secretary, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Please excuse the CEO"
Actually the thing to understand is that you can not use Freelancer ID to force taxes on other players , with freelancer Id you can not even claim something. If you choose to work with Freelancer ID when your faction is unofficial then you should stick with actions allowed by the Freelancer ID after becoming official you can request a Id which fits your RP
You can ignore reality but you can not ignore consequences of ignoring reality
(07-24-2016, 09:50 AM)Gulryz Wrote: Actually the thing to understand is that you can not use Freelancer ID to force taxes on other players , with freelancer Id you can not even claim something. If you choose to work with Freelancer ID when your faction is unofficial then you should stick with actions allowed by the Freelancer ID after becoming official you can request a Id which fits your RP
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(07-24-2016, 08:45 AM)FreakyM Wrote: We are entirely, 100% aware that our "copyright claim" is not enforceable.
Howard Williams - CEO, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Just try and stop us"
Caroline Convair - General Secretary, Williams-Mordhauser Distributing - "Please excuse the CEO"
(07-24-2016, 10:27 AM)Gulryz Wrote: then why did you made a claim it do not make any sense "see"
Did you see all the posts that lit up? A half-dozen people from as many factions, two pages of shoutbox, someone told us it's a skype meme now, three pages of discussion in our thread. For nothing more than a bunch of legalese I wrote up in ten minutes.
That's why. We're roleplaying. We're having fun. We got a half-dozen people from as many factions to post along with us, and we got even more to have a good laugh.
Williams-Mordhauser Wrote:Primary Goals: To create fun and content for fellow spessmen. To promote casual & high-quality roleplaying. To have a good time - what more could a spessman want?