Duchess Industries

[eyvind]

What do you mean by security? Do you sell security services? Do you sell mercenary services? If not, do you escort allied factions? Do you police your ZOI or only secure your traders? How big is your security wing? Do all traders have escorts? If not, at what point should they have one should enough players be logged on?

The primary responsibility of the Security Department is the security of DI assets. They do whatever necessary and in their legal right to ensure the safety of DI employees, the integrity of DI cargo, and so on.

We do not sell security services.

We do provide security for allies when they require it.

How big is it? If we have 50 faction members interested in being part of the Security Department, I suppose it would be pretty huge. If we have 2, not so huge?

No, not all traders have escorts, that seems like it would be practically impossible. They will use escorts if they are available and they feel they need or want one and the escort agrees.

How do you gain financing? Do traders release their proceeds to you? Do you pay them salary? Does DI sponsor a starting DI player? How?

We are exploring the practical possibilities as far as your first two questions are concerned, I won't know until we've been around for a bit what will work and what won't. It is simply dependent on too many factors to put much of anything down in writing at this stage.

As you can see from the ship list, DI does finance certain ships. We also provide petty credits as needed, as well as loans.

Why did you not include having public stock to the draft? Is it not important? Are you going to sell public stock? If so, how big as a financing method is this to you? Do you release dividends to your stock holders? If yes, how much and how often?

Stock is handled by the Sirius Stock Market Exchange, not by us. Ask them.

Remember, the shorter and more punctual you can be, the more you have given it thought:)The admins don't let just any faction be realized no matter how great an idea it's based on, so you better be prepared for these kinds of questions.

If I didn't know that, I wouldn't have posted this or any of my previous threads. Does it really sound like I'm just boasting about the fabulosity of the idea?

I disagree about being shorter and punctual, however. Longer and extensive is more likely to accurately represent a concept such as this. The more I write, the more I need to think, the more I think, the more I need to write. That feels much more natural and comfortable to me than being as concise as possible, at least this early in the process.

How do you handle diplomacy? Will you attempt peaceful resolve or defend your corporate interests? Is your faction a power hungry or a peaceful one? What exactly are DI corporate interests, which in your COC override your normally evasive behaviour?

Only vague principals can hold for diplomacy in general. I coudn't tell you how we would deal any particular type of diplomacy until we begin dealing with it. The same more or less holds true for interests. If something benefits DI in some way, it is in the DI interest. If it benefits Liberty in some way, it is also in DI interest.

Beyond that, it is a matter of balance between good diplomatic relations and corporate/house well-being. In many cases it will be a matter of chance and risk that governs what actions DI takes, while in other cases it will be much more straight-forward.

Give me specific questions and I may be more able to answer.

What constitutes research? Where does it happen? What cargo do the scientists carry? How big is your scientist wing supposed to be? How is it financed?

I find this question quite strange. Research is research and is done wherever possible. Scientists carry whatever they need to do the research. Our scientists are of course paid by the corporation, and their research financed by corporate income, just like any other part of the corporation.

Maybe you should be more specific here too?

What do you mean by security? Do you sell security services? Do you sell mercenary services? If not, do you escort allied factions? Do you police your ZOI or only secure your traders? How big is your security wing? Do all traders have escorts? If not, at what point should they have one should enough players be logged on?

The primary responsibility of the Security Department is the security of DI assets. They do whatever necessary and in their legal right to ensure the safety of DI employees, the integrity of DI cargo, and so on.

We do not sell security services.

We do provide security for allies when they require it.

How big is it? If we have 50 faction members interested in being part of the Security Department, I suppose it would be pretty huge. If we have 2, not so huge?

No, not all traders have escorts, that seems like it would be practically impossible. They will use escorts if they are available and they feel they need or want one and the escort agrees.

How do you gain financing? Do traders release their proceeds to you? Do you pay them salary? Does DI sponsor a starting DI player? How?

We are exploring the practical possibilities as far as your first two questions are concerned, I won't know until we've been around for a bit what will work and what won't. It is simply dependent on too many factors to put much of anything down in writing at this stage.

As you can see from the ship list, DI does finance certain ships. We also provide petty credits as needed, as well as loans.

Why did you not include having public stock to the draft? Is it not important? Are you going to sell public stock? If so, how big as a financing method is this to you? Do you release dividends to your stock holders? If yes, how much and how often?

Stock is handled by the Sirius Stock Market Exchange, not by us. Ask them.

Remember, the shorter and more punctual you can be, the more you have given it thought:)The admins don't let just any faction be realized no matter how great an idea it's based on, so you better be prepared for these kinds of questions.

If I didn't know that, I wouldn't have posted this or any of my previous threads. Does it really sound like I'm just boasting about the fabulosity of the idea?

I disagree about being shorter and punctual, however. Longer and extensive is more likely to accurately represent a concept such as this. The more I write, the more I need to think, the more I think, the more I need to write. That feels much more natural and comfortable to me than being as concise as possible, at least this early in the process.

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