A Call for Open Discussion

Perhaps, but there isn’t enough incentive for people to try to get involved in the player versus player aspect of the MUD if they are just going to get their asses handed to them the moment they try. If you have a better suggestion, I’m all ears.

I don’t see how making gear more secular and elitist solves the problem. The fact it is widely available makes it EASIER for the lowest common denominator to combat the more "elitist" pkers.

I’ll concede that Gathorn.

Edit by Anna: Fishy said here that leveling through questing is not her favorite method. She feels that it disrupts RP rather than enhances it.

Leadplanet being broken: Yes. The whole planetary ai system has needed to be fixed for 5 years now. It sorta-kinda works, but it’s poorly documented and needs some work. As far as getting planetary leaders to spend more time on their planets, I agree with a couple reservations. Please don’t turn it into SpaceFarmville. It’s stupid, time consuming, mind-numbing, and boring as hell. Did I mention time consuming? Most of the time, it ends up being the case that one person runs multiple planets, so if leadplanet was changed to require them to spend too much time futzing with each planet, spread out over every planet, the one moff who still logs in would quickly get tired of it.

Clan leadership: Getting new people in leadership positions is a double-edged sword. On one hand, yes we need new faces in charge of things. On the other hand, the reason the same old people run things all the time is because they do it well. Instead of simply promoting random newbies/random people who express an interest, or sticking only to people who are already known and trusted, those familiar faces need to start making a conscious effort to train people up to their level of competency as far as space/ground combat and leadership in general. Also, YES, minor clans are far more difficult to run successfully. Major clan leadership just requires putting up with morons and being active. Minor clans have to worry about membership and creating interest and activity among their members a lot more than they do moron-culling.

The imm staff: Firm believers in the blue wall of silence, if a mistake is made, it will never be admitted. They close ranks and deny everything. Don’t even bother.

So far since I’ve been back I’ve seen clanmessage be used in a method that wasn’t just two clans shit talking eachother in an incredibly juvenile way maybe twice.

I’ve decided I really don’t like this.

My suggestion? Get rid of clanmessage and go back to requiring diplomats to be actual diplomats. It really seems like clanmessage detracts from roleplay, when there’s other methods that are better for it like holo conferences, the talk channel, and actually sending diplomat characters to meet with members of other organizations, like they did in Star Wars.

I like the idea too but its kinda hard to set up a meeting with another clan or tell em a holo channel without it.

Eh, holonet meetings would be some fairly high level stuff. If you’re the leader of a clan, you should have diplomats who -will- have their ways of contacting members of other clans. If you want to have an important meeting via holonet, you let your liaisons/diplomats know and they set the meeting up for you. That’s their job.

I like it. Clanmessage is too ‘powerful’, and people do spur of the moment clanmessages that just make them look retarded.

I like clanmessage, it just requires the clanleader not give it out willynilly, last TL during the NR the senate passed a resolution stating that only senators, their aides, division leaders, and I think their seconds would be able to have clanmessage without a specific vote of the Senate and it kept clanmessage asshattery down.

And if there MUST be juvenile taunting, I’d rather it be the emperor calling the rebels dickweeds on clanmessage than on talk.