Notes of the day…
Availability:
Having to work for school some more again this week, thus I won’t be *very* often in game. I’ll however do my best to be on AORC (chat client) every evening (that makes around 5-8 pm GMT during weekdays), which will allow me to take care of certain matters if there’s need, or at least, if it switches me to auto-AFK, to *log* /tells. Any questions, suggestions or whatever – you can address them to me this way for the moment. I’m so sorry for the lack of availability, but it’s only gonna last for one month, and after this – I’m free of exams, school, and all the chores linked to this state of being.
Name:
We’d really need a name. Really. I realize that it’s a bit hard to choose as long as the org’s settings aren’t completely defined – or at least, defined enough for us to find a name that’d suit – but on the other hand, it’d already make things more present too. So, if any of you has ideas about this, even if not really pondered or simply thrown in, it’s already a good way to start (the way I’m forced to keep focused on my Russian beer project for my exam, I don’t trust myself at the moment to really find good names… *coughs*). As long as we don’t end up with some cheesy gothic stuff such as “Dark Harbingers of Terrifying Death”, I’m, as usual, open to suggestions. I can bring some former RP-groups names that we had come up with when playing table-top (yesh, I keep a very fond memory of this “Nephilim Agency” we had created in Mutant Chronicles, and I have to admit that our little mavericks’ agency was really interesting to conceive…), but it’s not necessarily fitting the (future) mood, so well. I’ll try to think more, and more seriously, also, about this too!
Recap on role:
Trying to focus back more on WHAT our goals will be. Short-styled list here, for I tend to blabber too much when trying to explain things…
– Intel gathering to help the Corporation
– Support to other (RP mostly) orgs. This can include: blitzing, exchange of item/services…
– Security: help in tower battles for those who want to do some PvP; other, more RP-bent stuff such as hiring our services for grid-security, maybe bodyguards, etc etc
– Extraction (that’s something I’ve never played in AO, but damn, for once it’d be fun)
Basically, I guess we can put all of this into the “support/security” category. Depends also on our official stance (see next paragraph)…
IMPORTANT NOTE:
We have to decide whether we want to “work” directly for OT and sort of “give” our services, or do it in a more “mercenary way” and stop doing stuff for free! And I think it’s a decision that should be taken quite quickly – and not only by me, that is.
OT department:
Pros:
– Official stance. Can use the former SPARTA background as a reference of quality and link to other orgs we had ties with, too
– Official authority. Gives us the right to clear the way to operate the way WE want to do it, and this while being backed by the Corp itself. Avoids “you have no orders to give us” stuff
Cons:
– Not much profit credits-wise (but do we really need lots of creds just for the sake of creds?)
– WE AIN’T OMNI-POL, DAMMIT! Stop wanting us to arrest criminals, and don’t treat us as “military people”! 😉
Rogue org:
Pros:
– We do money
– We don’t need to wait for “approbation” or “authorizations”
– We can choose the jobs
– If we fuck up, it’s not directly OT’s fault
Cons:
– Depending on the contracts, we’ll need to be powerful enough to bring the other orgs what they want. 10 people won’t do –> need to recruit fast –> may become a “quality personnel” problem. (I.e. I really don’t see an org like MR or Chimera ‘paying’ us to help in pvP *lol*)
– Need to be extremely careful in choosing our ‘contracts’, in order to avoid ending up doing the wrong stuff (i.e. people hiring us to do a dirty job that, in the end, will cripple the Corporation)
NOTE: ‘Payment’ doesn’t need to be in *money*. We can pretty well exchange services, info, protection, items, etc etc…
OR, as an intermediary solution, we can do both, although I’m not sure how we could fit this in. I mean, making people pay for certain services and not for others will be… odd. Unfair, too. Seems that adopting a direct stance is the best bet in our case.
Okay… I suppose I’ve forgotten some more stuff, but my mind is blank at the moment, so I’ll check this again later…
