Just Bloody Lock it

[Friday]

It is important to note as well that IRL, such mergers dont happen overnight either!

Whilst the factions can make it 'official' at the stroke of a pen, the process of merging computer systems, fleets, corporate logos and advertising can take years.

Hell, my employers IRL tell us it will take up to two years just to change company names on all our clothes and vehicles and buildings!

So I would recommend OPTION 2 - fly with seperate IDs for now.

You can say in RP they are merged - the devs never said no you cant merge them in RP. But taking a long time to merge the IDs can be justified in RP on the grounds that it normally takes time to repaint all the ships, and issue new IDs and government registration.

Give it time for people to adjust to the new RP, give it time to establish new deals under the new company name.

Some things you can do:

1) Ask for equalisation of the factions IFF profiles - make sure they are all the same.
2) GO through each others records, each member contact factions/groups they have had dealings with - make sure both ALG and Kruger are recognised as the same entity by other factions/groups. make sure both factions are cleared for docking and trade rights.
3) If there is to be equipment sharing, ask for tweaks to ship permissions and mining system so that both ALG and Kruger can act as one.
4) Write up a bunch of new infocards and base descriptions, submit them for editing and approval. Submit new news items for the bars.

Short PMs will never cut it, but build the story, and it will get up.

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