The Order - Future Direction

[Dashiell]

Replying to Dashiell's post:

The bottom line that Order's primary enemies (Nomad conglomerate and your friendly neighbor local house subsidiaries) are all either invite-only or semi-invite factions, either way the numbers are quite limited. I'm afraid there is nothing to do about that, unless you got an idea. Cause I've been pondering about solutions for like... two years I think, and none of the ideas that I came up with were viable solutions for various reasons.

whoah there. I'm not accusing you of anything mate. I know you want to keep a high standard, and that the result is that you have fewer available ships. nothing wrong with that.

but that does result in the Order lacking 'enemies'. again, I'm not saying that it your fault and that you should fix it somehow. we have talked about that, remember? I too, was baffled as how to boost Nomad activity.

it's just an observation of mine, linked to the proposed change in the Order's way of doing things.

Where do you propose that the BHG are obtaining these nasty rayguns from, then? Currently, the only nomad weapons in use by the bhg are on a special RP request basis. With the order and bhg's fleets destroyed or weakened (in rp, i'm not asking the bhg ships to be removed from the mod), the bhg would have very little power in the edge worlds.

There are, of course, things that i cant explain here due to the NDA for 4.86's development. Unfortunately, that means that anyone who is not in on what's happening with .86 probably has no clue what's going on =/ Wait and see is the best I can say.

LIke Agmen said, you are dictating Core rp then. some talks would be nice, instead of shoving it in our face: 'on januari 4th 2010 most of your fleet will be destroyed and half your rp will disappear. thank you, have a good day.'

please do talk to our head honchos about it. it takes 2 to tango mate.

as for the rayguns, I was talking about rp, not actual game mechanics. what I meant was: if the order decides to run, the remains of the Core (assuming we follow the path plotted in the first post) will have no obstructions whatsoever. they can run around Minor all day long, salvaging wrecks and researching unhindered.

and if the Core fleet took such a beating, what would stop the core from pouring new hunters into delta if the Order isn't there to blow them away?

just saying.

edit: I'd like to give an example of what will happen if the Order goes down the road of secrecy.

for a while now, the Keepers have been inactive. the BHG| / Core has also rarely shown its face in delta. riddle me this: what will the Order do in such cases?
no aliens to rp with, no BHG to rp / fight with.

nothing. that's what they'll do. activity in Delta and minor has been low lately. imagine that becoming even worse and more frequent. or rather: the new standard.
and trust me: don't bother with house space. you migth as well rp with a brick wall.

in essence, the changes proposed are pretty good. but I think they are a bit too drasitc.

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