Faction Status Reports: May 2016

[Thyrzul]

Faction Status Report
The Council - [C]-

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month.
Still coming back from the dead, aiming for no less than officialdom.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?

● General LaFlamme began talks with Fleet Admiral Michael about a possible reclamation of the Tau-44 system. Read More
● General LaFlamme began talks with President Corvin, Kaigun Taisho Hitomi and Pope Brettonias about a possible union of factions to watch over the Tau Region. Read More
● Several communications related to the above meetings.
● An attempt for information exchange between The Council and the Dai 343 Kaigun Kokutai. Read More
● A scout wing inspecting the situation in California during the GRN attack, later a report about it by Sergent Savoie. Read More
● Various other things including but not limited to patrols, logistics shipments, housecleaning in Roussillon, an attempt to make contact with Brigands, PoB maintenance, promotions, recruitments, revision and expansion of the Task Board.

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
Love Gallia, please.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?

● Joint Event Series Request (in cooperation with CR). Read More

Is there anything you would like to add?

Grant us officialdom, pls.

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[Skorak]

Faction Status Report
Interspace Commerce - IC|

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month

The usual shipping operations though we are not a shipping company.. But most work this month was some special forums work. We did our very first (really professional looking) Insurance contract. Then we continued our row of news articles that we think is great commercial background. And not to forget we also bought a lot of shares from APM, the company that supplies the BHG and the Core.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
1) Supplying Harmony for repairs
2) Supplying Poena Outpost
3) Reply to DSE
4) Our first real insurance contract <--- !
5) Acquiring the blueprints for a civilian carrier
5) Health Insurance - Would have been a great opportunity
6) Selling Renzu ships to Kishiro
7) MD about the Corvo, Convoy to Theta to fetch blueprints
8) News article about Rheinland Law changes and possible downgrading of IMG

9) Buying APM majority

Bounty Board) Interspace Commerce Bounty Megaboard
Mission Board) Interspace Commerece Missions and Awards


Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
By making us look not just another shipping faction but a faction with unique RP opportunities( insurance, banking, network monitoring). You can do that by just approaching us in regards of these topics.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Core 3 upgrade for Park Avenue Station - Still. Since last FSR.
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=139381 - Official faction request from IC|

Is there anything you would like to add?
- Fix Alberta Platinum Field - Really it is hard for people with low fps to hit these rocks. People keep crying and it is a good trade run. Our people use it often.
- Thanks for fixing Renzu and Wall Street although Wall Street makes no sense at all now. Would have been nice to talk to a dev before that got moved.

[Skorak]

Faction Status Report
Liberty Police, Incorporated - LPI-

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Fined a lot of people and returned a lot of illegally transported passengers back to Manhattan so they could acquire legal and better means of transportation.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
Message Dump

Supplying the Harmony for repairs
Replying to DSE

Replying to concerned citizens reporting criminals
- Smuggler: Eagle_Eye

Cooperation with the LSA to catch criminals
- Smuggler: Neraxon
- Smuggler: TWS|Phoencia[L]

Smuggler: SPS)Misfit's.Grave
Smuggler: Heavy.Duty

LSF captain reporting criminals
- RaVeN-Skull

Request for the development of a bounty system

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
We could use some more members.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Nope.

Is there anything you would like to add?
This whole delegate thing with the libgov law change to disallow mass transportation of people in transports gave us a lot to do. But it also showed that many new people don't even know there are laws. I was told there could be a commodity that could dynamically get the laws? Or something similar? That would help a lot.

[Redacted.Member1-4]

Faction Status Report
Hogosha Association - [HA]

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Second stage towards officialdom. Done some forum communications, some trade contracts. Individual players have pursued some minor stories under the umbrella of the Association.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?

Discussion with other Kusarian organizations regarding the possible future of the Sigmas.

Cryer contract deliveries.

Tertulia en Creta rp with Corsairs

Conclusion of the bureaucratic procedures with Rheinland

Some more news reports for the ignorant proletariat.

We spotted an odd visitor in the Sigmas, but nothing more came from that line of action.

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
Not much of a problem, our current membership is fulfilling the roles we decided to perform. More people working for us/ with us would always be nice.

If anyone would be willing to spend some time checking what ship models the Hogosha need done, that would be great though. That is community help, right?

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Officialdom? Why yes.

Other than that, I think there aren't any requests or pending administrative/development issues for Hogosha at the moment.

Is there anything you would like to add?
Have a feeling we could be doing even more stuff, but for now this is what our ambition can muster.

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The Hogosha Association

Recruitment Center | Feedback Thread
Message Center |Bounty Board

[Clavius]

Faction Status Report
The Brotherhood - [TBH]

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Same as last months, we have been pirating/smuggling most of the time.
Also, we organised/participated in several events across Sirius.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
Roleplay for Cruentus
Phoenix base
PRIME comm
Intel
Inquiry
Deal with [Star]
MD#1
3 new applications

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
Nope.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Yes, devs are familiar with those.

Is there anything you would like to add?
Nope.

[Petitioner]

Faction Status Report
Detroit Munitions - /DM/

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
More trading and forum roleplay. We closed down our supply board because nobody was doing it, and we're currently trying to figure out how to make it more enticing and incite competition.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
Oh boy, let's see. I was told to just do lists for this section, so that should be rather easier. In no particular order:
Reaching out to USI and planning to go golfing with their CEO.
Contact with Jimmy Fattore, a smuggler.
Negotiating our little under-the-table deal with him.
Offering a deal to supply 343 with arms.
Solitaire Metropolis asks us to bring them Armaments.
We ask DHC for the relevant endorsement needed to ship said Armaments.
Solitaire cancels the contract because of time constraints.
USI asks for lasers for Platinum Inc in Alberta.
Detroit delivers.
We shut down our supply board to the Brets.

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
Give us feedback, please! Or even better, join! Also, thanks for not calling us Ageira anymore.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Aside from the request to go official, no.

Is there anything you would like to add?
Join the faction! If you like what you see, or know a way we can improve, tell us so! Talk to us in our Official Faction application or our feedback thread, or, better yet, both. At the end of the day, we can't do this without you all telling us how we can do better, so don't be shy; my number one priority as a leader is making sure that everyone has fun whenever they see a /DM/ tag.

Furthermore, while Detroit isn't an official faction yet, I would like to echo the previously-stated concerns in the {343} posts; the lack of official statement regarding FSRs since the system has been implemented is, to say the least, worrisome, as is the lack of, well, any response on the admin team's part to anything that's been posted in them. While I personally enjoy writing these, because I have Karst-tier enthusiasm for my faction and want to show off how awesome we are every single chance I get, and would furthermore question the right of anyone who doesn't feel that way about their faction to be leading it, I think it's also kind of insulting to the community that something which should obviously be the primary connection between admins and the official factions, who are intended to be the front-line guardians of and pillars of the community, is ignored like it is.

In the entirety of my time on Discovery, one of the primary issues I and others have complained about is a lack of actually-meaningful discussion between players, factions, admins, and the development team. One of the reasons I was so enthusiastic about FSRs when I first heard about them is because I thought the FSR system would be a wonderful remedy to this problem. I wasn't alone in this, because I told @Dane Summers about it too, and he had the same reaction; "why the f*** are people complaining about this system?" The fact that people ARE complaining about the system, despite its incredible potential, shows that something is deeply wrong here. While I'm going to keep filling these out because it makes my faction and I look great, I'm going to follow suit with Char and copypaste these two paragraphs in every FSR I fill from now on until there's some sort of official statement on the matter, and I'd strongly encourage others to do something similar. Thanks for reading this all.

[Liberty Navy]

Faction Status Report
The Liberty Navy - [LN]

Home of the ORIGINAL Conspiracy

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Mostly the usual Navy Stuff - patrols, losing to GRN almost terribly, and some other fun stuff like mildly continuing the roleplay involving Liners with Delegates attacked by D9, one of them implicating Harmony. Not that anything else has been done...

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
Most of these I found using Search Alexis Hunter, because I did a lot of the messages this month. I think Wildkins did one, I just forgot for what xD

Attacks on Civilian Vessels by D9:
OSC Bali - Attack by H|Iota-Five
Attack on the US-Titanic by D9|Witch.Hunter
Alan Jones contacting Victoria Knight, CO of BG-Harmony
Alexis Hunter telling Alan he did a bad

Other Stuff
DSE Opening some Roleplay, then disappeared for awhile.
Finn needed access to Virginia, I try and steal LSF's toys. Mixed Results.

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
Not that I know of, unless you count Liberty Indies as a problem the community can ever help with.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Arbi didn't tell me.

Is there anything you would like to add?
Buff Cruiser Razors
This is Jeremy, why do I keep ending up temporary leading factions.

It's not Arbi quality I'm sorry

[Karst]

Faction Status Report

ALG Waste Disposal - [ALG]-

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Where to begin? It's been a crazy month. Spec ops and convoys to the Omicrons, secret meetings, exploration of the new systems, getting our battlecruiser...alongside the more mundane trading and fighting we usually do.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
There are so many threads this month, I'm not even going to bother looking for all of them. RP with the Order, with O'Rhu, with Gaians, with GMG, with KNF, new chapter of the Division V story thread (which I will link cause it's my favorite thing we did)....there's a lot of stuff. Look at the recent posts by @ALG if you're really interested I guess.

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
While we've never struggled with overall activity, what I really need is members interested in more than solo powertrading (not that there's anything really wrong with that, but y'know), people interested in pvp and cooperative RP stuff. PM if interested.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
Sort of. Greens should know.

Is there anything you would like to add?
Not really.

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[TheShooter36]

Faction Status Report
Bretonian Mining and Manufacturing - BMM-

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Some mining, trading, little bit of RP mixed in. Not an active month...

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=139727 - Dealings with CR

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
Dire need of active players i can say

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
For now no. Depending on this month, there may be a need next month

Is there anything you would like to add?
Leadership got changed, as Guapman is busy and wanted me to take leadership, im around until he comes back.

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[Jayce]

Faction Status Report
Liberty Security Force - =LSF=

Provide a brief summary of what your faction has done this month
Working towards our special Recon Cruiser.

What roleplay has your faction been involved in?
See above.

Is your faction experiencing problems the community could help with?
No, our problems stem from the devs/admins denying the start of another war, not from the community.

Are there any outstanding requests linked to your faction?
No.

Is there anything you would like to add?
I'm going to take the FSR's seriously, for once. Let's have a look at active intelligence factions, for a moment. There's... Us, and BDM. I'm not even sure if BDM is official any more. The issue is that, unless there's a war on with active players on the opposing side, there's not a whole lot a we can do. The members in my faction chose to join or were added because of their ability and desire to PVP. The server population has degraded to such a degree that there's only 3 or 4 total PEOPLE that anyone in the LSF would log for. Nobody else puts up enough of a fight. Looking at other groups such as the 404 or LSA, they lack this problem. The 404 has their own unique RP where they pursue alternative, diplomatic solutions to problems. The LSA die to an armorless Sunburst, so they don't have that issue. For the past two years, the LSF has been the bigger stick of Liberty, dealing with problems the LPI and LN haven't been able to. There's simply nothing to log for that's worth fighting, and after 8 years, talking to people about nothing at all has gotten boring as well. In times of peace, the LSF ID takes a back seat in any sort of law enforcement role, despite that being one of their duties in their infocards. They don't have /nodock, they don't have TLAGSNET, so they can't be police. They don't have big caps, they don't have a large playerbase, so on that front they're inferior to the Navy. All that's left is snooping around in other houses and causing trouble. It's not fitting for an Intelligence faction to be sitting around in Sigma-15 at the Freeport jerking themselves off.