-[Cartel]- The Cartel

[Leo]

Hey Mímir, thanks for the great informative feedback. Much appreciated.

I think it's a good idea that you are the "spokesperson", especially in the startup phase. But knowing disco and the way factions put their foot down at times, you might have to make some hard decisions at some point, involving helping one faction over other factions. You might find that you will come to need some form of governing body to make these decisions. Facions are often geared in such a way that they will push and play hard-ball to make others "show their colours", and I think tough decisions following such pressure will be inevitable.

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that and I considered it when writing the post. However, the story of Kasumi Masyuo and how she gained her smuggler skill was that she did it all by herself without anyone lending her aid or having any form of leadership to guide and teach her. When she formed the SC, she wanted to maintain that vision. I can see what you mean, that eventually I'll probably have to switch it over to having to be the leader inRP, but for now, and for a long time in the future, I'm going to remain as the spokesperson until something is needed to be done that could adversely effect the goals and/or survival of the faction as a whole.

IMO piracy should be left out - it endangers [SC] smuggler's free right to dock at lucrative sell-points, and thus the faction's purpose as a whole.

Good point. I'll remove that from the list. I placed it on there so that we would have a potential contract for those pirating ore haulers. However, being fences would essentially do the same thing if we're hired under contract.

Well smugglers - like Zoners - stand to gain a lot from maintaining neutrality. I think it's a good aim to try and be neutral with as many as possible, and I don't see it as a negative that smuggling factions only lists other factions as neutral as a starting point. I don't see it as a "Mary Sue" kinda thing.

Yeah, however, unlike the Zoners, I'm sure our ways of gaining capital are going to make factions who hate one another not like us. For example: If we get a contract with, let's say...the Outcasts, to haul some pirated Neon down to Pennsylvania. If the Corsairs get wind of that, they might get a little more than pissed off at us for fencing goods for the Outcasts. So that would require us to double back and help the Corsairs to prevent them from falling down into the red. So, the Zoners have that neutral stance and for the most part can hold it. However, as we help the enemies of factions, I think I'm going to see if's similar to the Children of Conviction faction that I ran for a while, and have a difficult time maintaining neutrality.

~Leo

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