Skype

[TFinnegan]

I cant see why an official faction would not enforce skype.

skype gives the opportunity for a member to have a say in how the faction operates. Without skype, the player is basically an indie with a tag....

I would argue those points.
The Junker's Congress has our own forum site, (click my signature), and while it's not a 'real-time' solution, it certainly works, on a number of levels.

First- there the 'public' section where we show people who wander by (our enemies too) an idea (?false front maybe?) as to what we're up to. -This allows us to point any indie Junkers to the forum site so that they may be informed of what information we're willing to share openly. - a function not available with skype.

Then there's our private area, where only registered Congressmen can go, and much of our internal discussion is sorted by content -another function not available with skype.

Also, the command officers have easy access to everything that was said about any subject by any member without having to dig through miles of skype chat.
Time is invaluable, as any faction leader can tell you, they rarely get to play due to the constraints of management, and any time saved is worth its wieght in gold ore.

And all this without forcing people (who may be playing on a computer that isn't thiers -which noone's mentioned in this thread) to install buggy, laggy software that steals bandwidth and has security holes you could drive a barge through.

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