Planetform vs. Synth Foods vs. Orbital Spa & Cruise

[Snak5]

That would be my only concern really, not that it is enough of a reason, but in my personal opinion it may lead to a unrealistic relationship between the two.

While I'd like to roleplay a branch of faction (either one) as owned by IC, I am not sure yet.

Unrealistic relationship? Not sure what you mean.

Synth Paste shipments insured by IC? Why not?!

EDIT: I am and still would be "leader/owner" of IC|.

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[AeternusDoleo]

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing Planetform and Synthfoods merge into one company (much like some Rheinie unlawfuls merged into AGS). Both companies deal with altering a biosphere for their own needs, although at different stages. The resulting company would be leading in planetary technologies Siriuswide. The resulting company would have both AFA/LWB as enemies on the Synth, and Gaians on the terraforming side, making it an interesting faction to have stock in...

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[Snak5]

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing Planetform and Synthfoods merge into one company (much like some Rheinie unlawfuls merged into AGS). Both companies deal with altering a biosphere for their own needs, although at different stages. The resulting company would be leading in planetary technologies Siriuswide. The resulting company would have both AFA/LWB as enemies on the Synth, and Gaians on the terraforming side, making it an interesting faction to have stock in...

That's quite interesting idea, which surely needs to be considered as well.

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[jammi]

I'd agree with that. It does sound very interesting. It should help remove the niche aspect of both groups as well - it'll double the number of routes the group could do, seeing as they'd be able to pick both Synth or Planetform routes.

One of the factors that has killed all the previous versions of these groups has been the limited number of profitable routes.

In any case, if this is how you want to go, don't start merged. Make two sub-groups led by different people, then merge them with forum RP.

EDIT: I'm not going to vote for the time being. I'm in favour of the merge idea, so that isn't really represented. Furthermore, I'd be happy to see you leading it... But only if you weren't leading IC. These sorts of groups need a leader who has a 100% dedication to making them work.

One of the other reasons the other groups have died is the fact that their leaders have gone inactive and stopped motivating people. Getting this running would be seriously time intensive, and you wouldn't be able to do justice to IC and this. You'd have to pick one or the other, or end up with a half-hearted effort on both.

EDIT2: If you want any help with a write-up and other forumwork, give me a call. I'm too focused on Bowex to really give much of a hand with the in-game side of things, but every little helps I guess. I'd like to see an active Planetform faction, just to complete the Bretonian quartet.

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[Snak5]

I am fat (just currently)))) ). Both groups would share me with no problems. =P

Anyways, gonna look into involved factions regarding Planetform and Synth Foods.

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[Azan27]

I have been very interested in reviving either planetform and synthfoods. As for OSC, there's currently an OS&C unofficial faction, regardless of how people feel its being run, if theirs an option, I'd suggest that people fill in other holes in the RP universe if one can. However, if you wanna do OSC, there is a great oppertunity of things you can do with that. If I can help in any way, please PM me.

The two factions have upsides and downsides. I'd choose whichever one you think fits you best to revive.

Heres a short list (in my opinion)
Synth Foods
Pros:
- No current unofficial faction (No competition or leadership problems)
- Easily defined in game actions (Trading synth food/ other foods)
- Set Enemies, Definied vanilla confilcts and lore (You know who to shoot right off the bat:P)
- All other relations are open to player interpritation (Oppertunities for diplomatic RP)
- Independance from other interests (Synth foods is a private corperation, so you don't have to bow to anyone)

Cons:
- Lack of enthusiam can be a problem (powertrading synthfoods only goes so far...)
- Preset Enemies (This can go both ways, as it removes the ability to operate peacefully in certain areas.)
- Corperate RP (This can be a pro or a con, some people require more motivation than just making money to RP. This can be easily solved though.)
- Hard to take seriously (Don't expect the community to instantly revere a faction that is essentially selling glorified baby food)
- Hard to expand (Its easy to simply fly around trading synth foods, but what if you want to grow? Its not easy... It requires imadgenation and pacience. Again, this can easly be solved by player determination.)



Planetform

Pros:
- SOOO COOL!!!! (I mean, honestly, they create planets! New frickin' habitable planets! How awesome is that?!?)
- Huge oppertunity for science RP (If you want to RP a scientist, terraforming is highly interesting)
- Constantly new things to do (You will never be without new terraforming projects)
- Huge variety for how you want to play the corp (Do you want them to be pure buisnessmen? Shady criminals? Humanitarians? Any one of them, and many more, are possible)
- Has gone through so many changes that its possible to deviate from the vanilla lore a little bit (So much stuff has changed, its possible to change just a little bit more within reason.)
- If you are willing to write one helluva story on the forums, you can do anything in this corp. (self explanitory)

Cons:
- Be aware that Planetform is HQed in Bretonia, which tends to get hit with a fresh pile of toxic waste every other friday.
- If you arn't into forum RP, or science RP, or "empty" RP (RP that doesn't provide an immidiate or certain in-game response) DONT BE IN PLANETFORM!
- There *might* be a planetform unofficial corp somewhere, inactive but still existant. You'd have to work out a way to merge with this one if it does exist. Rival planetform factions just doesn't work.
- You can make some money, but don't expect to be raking in the big bucks trading terraforming gases or gaian wildlife
- Planetform has a lot of enemies, as long as it remains hostile to Kusari. It would be possible to remove about 9/10ths of the factions enemies (talk to me about this on skype or something) but it might not work out, would deviate a bit from the lore written by other planetform factions, and might backfire. Also, regardless of what you do, there will always be people shooting you.
- There have been a few past planetform factions. You will be inheriting their baggage.
- You have to work with the admins and the devs. This isn't nessicaraly a bad thing ( I acutally would really like this) But if you clash or butt heads with the admins or devs in any way, this isn't the faction for you. Cooperation with the dev team is nessicaray if you ever want any of your terraforming projects to get realized in game.
-Requires good relations with all the PLAYERS on the server. Because there is no terraforming mechanic in game, you arn't gonna go anywhere without community support.
-This faction will be very hard to get of the ground initially. Don't expect anything amazing to happen in the first month of doing this. In fact, don't expect any response for doing this. Don't expect respect, cooperation or admiration in running Planetform. That way, you can't be dissapointed.
-If you arn't patient, don't do this. Terraforming takes a LOOONNGGG time.
-Did I mention that most of this will be empty RP on the forums? Unless your are genuinly interested in writing RP, with no need for validation, you'll hate running this corp.





Overall, I'd suggest SynthFoods for you to run. However, If you are willing to take the pain inititally and really be an awesome person, Planetform could be a better option. Just be awair that it'll be hard, you'll need pacience, and don't expect anything from it for the first couple months of running it. Don't expect others to motivate you to do these things. Unless you are motivated by pure intrinsic desire to make these factions, it won't end well.


I wish you the best of luck, and I would love it if you'd PM me to talk further about these. Whatever you choose to do, I'd be happy to see any of these factions in your capable hands.

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[Azan27]

Also, Merging Planetform and Synth would be AWESOME.
Pure epicness.
If the devs would be willing to do this (Merge the two IFFs into one) that'd be epic. If not, one could simply have it be a single player faction, with the food guys using the sythfoods IFF and stuff, and the terraformers using the Planetform stuff.

Just gotta come up with a cool name for it now:P

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[jammi]

Just gotta come up with a cool name for it now:P

Synthetic Worlds? :P

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[Azan27]

Hey, better than 'Planet Foods':P

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[Daedric]

Planet Express Foods

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