Attempting to circumvent 1 ID per faction rule is like multiboxing.
USI is a shipping company, that is all. You're nothing more, nothing less.
If USI starts mining, what is the point in DSE/IMG/Junkers?
Loneshark came to me saying Echo 7-7 gave them express permissions to do this:
Quote:why can we mine ?
well we are strongly linked to XA/xenos
who arew what ?
ex miners etc
we have established rp to rehabilitate ex xeno offenders
ie we employ them on release from Huntsville, Sugarland
so we have usurped their mining skills from that
3M originaly Morgan Mining and Manufacturing was bought up by USI to exploit these talents. becoming Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
we talked it over with Max first
Max is a nobody, he cannot give you express permissions to bend rules to your advantage, considering he undermined what was said to loneshark here.
So as this is a complete and utter disregard on the ID rule, I'll be looking a lot deeper into this.
My spider senses were tingling... I knew someone, somewhere was grossly misinterpreting a discussion I had with them some months ago!
Perhaps a little detail that has been conveniently overlooked was that, if I recall accurately, I quit the skype chat into which I had been invited by the USI directors of the time, due to certain people there not making any sense at all and completely ignoring certain aspects of the feedback I had offered concerning USI's 3M concept.
I would care to note that at the time of the discussion, I don't think the Faction Creation Rules had been updated, and thus the possibility for Official Factions to use a secondary ID (it had to be generic) was still there. I did not at any stage "give express permission" or similar indications of approval; I might have said something along the lines of "do what you want" because I had neither the inclination nor the authority to stop them from their own faction business and was swiftly becoming frustrated with a certain stubborn attitude being displayed.
However, given the Faction Creation Rules being updated, the whole concept is rendered moot since secondary IDs no longer exist (as well as the potential for confusing loopholes).
As for "being a nobody" - well, I'm sure that comment was just made in the heat of the moment. I appreciate that players might like to consult with me / get my opinion on lore-related matters, and it was in this capacity that the USI directors contacted me at the time. Amusingly enough, on occasion a few players have erroneously assumed that I was an Admin, but I'm sure the USI directors were under no such illusion.
