Applications for Future Economic Events

[eyvind]

The Pittsburgh Debris Sweep

1) The names of all bases where different prices are temporarily desired. Match commodity names to those bases. (Keep these as short as possible to create the event. Changing 10 commodities at 30 bases is a huge amount of work). Make sure to indicate whether prices should go up or down if that is not obvious (most likely they'll go up). List commodities and bases in order of importance from most important to least important.

Planet Pittsburgh - Scrap Metal - Up
Other bases in New York should probably cease selling Scrap Metal for the duration of the event

2) Factions that would be involved in promoting the event.

ALG Waste Disposal
Deep Space Engineering
Liberty Police, Inc.

There is also the possibility that the Liberty Navy guns will float past in-between invasions.

3) Factions that could be involved in hostility towards the event (they want to interfere with the event and interdict the trading/smuggling).

Junkers: "The scrap is ours."
Liberty Rogues: "No, the scrap is ours."
Xenos: "It's ours, or perhaps Liberty's. In any case, it certainly isn't theirs!"

In addition, Lane Hackers may very well sieze the opportunity to strike for profit the substantial corporate presence.

4) Links to any relevant forum stories, threads, or background. Provide post numbers if the link refers to a post instead of the entire thread.

The main event thread contains an up-to-date list of links to event-related material: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37998

5) List the participants and promoters of the event : player factions, or individual players not related to involved factions.

[ALG]- *
DSE) *
.:j:. *
LPI- *
LR- *
XA- *

6) Provide a brief summary of how you intend to promote the event on the forums, and on the server. Include the server-side activities that will support the event. In other words, how will people find out about the event, and what will cause them to want to participate (apart from profits).

Promotion of the event on the forums will begin by the participating factions establishing the background for the event with posts in their message dumps and diplomatic correspondences. Due to public attention, The Discoverer will also be reporting on anything related to the event. These news stories will be posted on The Discoverer website as well as announced in the CNS Announcement thread.

There will be either a single or a series of coherent events based on the economy event. These events will be announced and organized in the Events forum. They will be between whichever of the concerned factions are available, and will vary in nature depending on which are.

The event will, if all goes well, add variation to the life of New York in the form of well-organized and high-quality role-play. Hopefully the proximity of the event will provide positive exposure to new players and give them somewhat of a familiarity with not only several Liberty factions but also a peek venue into Rheinland through ALG. The event is a simple and straight-forward one with potential for multi-sided interaction according to complex diplomatic relations.

7) Explain how the event will support current or planned roleplaying of the factions or individuals involved in the event. What mod, factional, or individual storylines are affected?

Most obviously, the ALG faction -- on the road to officialness -- will be able to establish itself as a corporation that largely transcends inter-House politics. Taking this step early, rather than gradually growing into the shoes of the NPCs, will help in making ALG role-play strong and supported.

This event will also start a relationship between ALG and DSE, one of the few other corporations that largely transcends House politics, though perhaps not to as large a degree as ALG. It is, fundamentally, a natural relationship between the waste producer and waste mitigator. As this relationship develops, it may have a considerable impact on the relationship between Liberty and Rheinland since despite the transcendance the two corporations are firmly tied to their respective Houses: ALG and DSE each represent a substantial portion of the influence and power base Rheinland and Liberty have in Sirius. Of course, whether or not there is any noticable effect on the houses, there will certainly be noticable change in the factions themselves.

The existence of LPI as a private security corporation -- not just a privatized police force -- will be strengthened.

The Xenos will have concrete material typical to their story to role-play on: foreign infringement on Liberty employment. Not only that, but they will be given the opportunity to feast on domestic strife beyond the petty squibbles over trace Silver and Copper deposits. That is to say, there will be plenty of potential enemies for the Xenos to fight not only on both sides of the law, but between them too.

Apropos Junkers, they will now have something specific to do in Liberty. Why haven't they shown much interest in the New York scrap? Not because there hasn't been any interest, but because there hasn't been any other role-play to make such interest viable in substantial Junker role-play. This will hopefully change this.

The Pittsburgh Debris Field is an area of Liberty with spectacular potential for role-play. It was produced by DSE, surrounds the heart of Liberty industry, is used by the Rogues to hide a Destroyer and stage attacks on the major commercial and military arteries through New York, and is also infested by Junkers scavenging what they can find. This event will turn the field into the object of a major workplace increase, but will in large part give these workplaces to non-Libertonians, hence bringing the Xenos into the fray.

Fundamentally, it represents the crux of domestic Liberty diplomacy.

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