The Situation (Hot War)

[RC 212]

You guys are a mess. My god.

First this board reorganizes way too much. Honestly I've seen three or four shuffles in my time on Chaos at least. It seems like it goes super slow, everything gets polished off and nothing happens. Instead of focusing on drama, like I said earlier, get active. The Republic is a faction on its last leg. NFU's dont want to join because there is almost no opposition on the other side.

Force users have been drawn away to the Silvers and the Sith.

That leaves a lot of Senators, a few Fleeters and some Jedi.

IC I'd get some allies in on this Invasion. furthermore, people see drama like this and they will flee the faction. I know I'm not too thrilled with the leadership just from what I've seen honestly, or the attitudes of the faction in general. I want to write my chars with you guys, but I just see no space. This faction looks like it literally does nothing but sit around and wait for invasions. Haven't seen a single dominion thread finish. Haven't seen an invasion won.

Lets talk about the RP'ers. You guys need to RP together. You guys all need to pull through and find other thread ideas to occupy your time as well. Invasions are whatever honestly. You still have plenty of map left. Hell you can even pick up and resettle the faction in the unknown regions.

Maybe you guys need to be destroyed. Like I said, every faction has an expiration date. Look at OP, the mega monolith of power once here. No one could top them, they won everything. Now they dropped off to minor after three years of dominating this board.

A total defeat might be a good way to start over, make a New Republic.

Just thoughts.

 

[Jsc]

So, in the now, what do we do? How do we do it? Who does it? and can we act on it?

• Announce the Invasion of Balmorra is upcoming.
• Post an announcement thread and get people/aid/allies to start signing up for it. Negotiate with the Sith the dates and semantics of the Invasion.
• FA get first dibs.
• Yes.

 

[RC 212]

What Jay said is correct. Instead of crying about it, get in gear and start a battleplan. Start writing.

 

[Onrai]

We don't make an agreement with the One Sith over anything. They can't start an invasion without us doing such.

On the other side, we need to simply make weapons that can counter everything they have. Then we can dominate them.

 

[Persephone Callas]

• Announce the Invasion of Balmorra is upcoming.
• Post an announcement thread and get people/aid/allies to start signing up for it. Negotiate with the Sith the dates and semantics of the Invasion.
• FA get first dibs.
• Yes.

And answers!

Now to do it.

... then in the meantime while we wait for the invasions to happen, how about we focus on the faction and what to do now?

Maybe putting up a poll asking the following questions can help drive some focus.

Do we want to expand our lore and do more faction threads?
Do we want to focus on expansion?
Do we want to focus more on faction vs faction play?
Other?

I think really nailing down what we are in an identity may help out. Right now, it is kinda everywhere. And i think that frustration is also just adding another kettle of Giju to the mix.

 

[Natasi Fortan]

On the other side, we need to simply make weapons that can counter everything they have. Then we can dominate them.

Can you do this? Because I have no talent with the Factory. But we can work together on Dev Threads (since I'm the Finance Ministaaaa represent).

 

[RC 212]

Yep Enigma is correct.

All the Tech you guys have is so outdated.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Geneviève Lasedri"]

Hey, Ginny. You sexy momma you. Can you head up the Balmorra Invasion stuff. Like the announcement thread, sign ups, ally talks, and chatting with the OS. Or just chat with the other FAs this week and make that happen. Cause... I'm JSC. And don't nobody want JSC handling this kinda stuff.

[member="Enigma"] [member="Vassara Raxis"]

You two are bomb at this. Can you two start mashing ideas together and getting some good counter Tech going? Even if it's just a brainstorm. We are tight for time right now too. So a good Plan B maybe? If we can't get the Tech approved before this Balmorra thing starts.

If you guys don't want to? That's cool too. Thanks.

[member="Aurelia Volcata"]

Cira put up some good questions. Do you want to run the ball with those? Ya know, get feedback from the faction about where we want to go in the future. You're as fiery about representing the Faction as you are sexy. So I think people would respond if you lead this charge and got those threads up. I'm sure we can get them pinned later too.

Thanks Aurelia! I want your babies!

 

[RC 212]

Yes first add these to the Armory, courtesy of my charity in the war against evil.

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Weapons​

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Spacers Shotgun- A quad barrel shotgun, useful for mixing up your ammo and close quarters combat.​

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Smugglers Shotgun- Double barreled, break action shotgun with a Concussion pistol built in. Useful against combatants at close quarters as well as FU's.​

 

[Onrai]

[member="Aurelia Volcata"]

Indeed I can, depending on what we can come up with. Brainstorming is key after we look over what the SIth have - and start to counter it.

[member="Vassara Raxis"]

Care to get involved?

[member="Jay Masaki"]

We're gonna need your help, silly.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]

@Mention Gir Quee. He's the Armory man, I believe. Cheers.

[member="Enigma"]

I main in the Underground this month. I can't commit to anything Pub wise until Nov. But if their is an Invasion, I'll probably drop an Alt in it when I'm free.

Cheers with the tech. You got this.

 

[Onrai]

[member="Jay Masaki"]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Hopefully we can figure something out.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Enigma"]

Secondly I just looked through the armory.

You guys have so much stuff I've never seen utilized. The Vong win by utilizing tech subs to the fullest and NPC ground combat seems to be a thing.

You need people willing to write that out. Use vehicles, use tanks. I'd like to see a legion of Vong withstand a line of armor blasting them away. Stop focusing so much on just PVP and such.

The OS certainly does zerg the battlefield with bodies. I've seen it so many times. It goes as follows. Raise dead zombies everywhere, land Vong swarm, add mass of FU's with their custom units, bring in giant beasts and Sithspawn.

 

[RC 212]

Dont forget all these fighters and bombers you have. IRL you can call in air strikes on locations. why haven't we done that? You don’t need a turbolaser barrage to do damage. A few fighters and bombers can be just as effective.

 

[Onrai]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]

Indeed. However, what we don't need needs to be cleared out to ensure that people know what we do need is there for use. The more new stuff we use, the better - after all, everyone knows the tech edge is something a faction needs to succeed.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Vassara Raxis"]

How somebody writes PvP is sololy up to them. Creative freedom and all that. So, the best you can do is take people under your wing and show them the ropes. Teach them, help them, answer questions, etc. Some people will get it. Some people won't. That's life.

You're tutorial is brilliant btw. I'd point anybody to that and say, "Here. This might help." You golden.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Before we bombard the tech factory with submissions, let's ask "what can do what we want most effectively and efficiently?"
Let's look at the Amphistaff, alright?

• Impervious to lightsabers.
• Requires multiple blunt trauma to the head to kill, or removal of head really.
• Is relatively unfazed by blasters and such (assuming Vong can even react quick enough to block those, in which case armor backs up that defense).
• Has incredible cutting power.

In canon, what was the most efficient way to breaking through these? Was there a weakness mentioned that wasn't unavailable at the time due to technological and time constraints in the story? Was there something they weren't able to cut through we could take advantage of?

If we can't answer the above questions, think of what we can make that does.

Now that you have thought through all of that, let's move on to "Is this new idea the best idea?"

Don't just dismiss it as "Well yes, I made it". Discuss it with others who don't see things the same way, talk to FJs who routinely deal with these, and make sure you work out everything that could be beneficial to this theoretical idea.

Just shoving things into the factory isn't going to help.

 

[Cora Passek]

Just throwing this in before I head to bed.

There was a deal for bolters and other firearms was made with Firemane, so we do have that. And really we could order anything from Firemane as we please, since we are on good terms with their company. Which leaves us some nice shattergun options and some other gnarly stuff. I dont have the specifics on the deal, but bolters alone against an average Vong I'd think would really muck them up. But looking at what Firemane offers as well would be a good idea and see if we'd like to update our contract or issue them a new one for more gear/armor/etc.

 

[Orphen]

*Yawns and enters...*

What's going on here? I make techy things...

peeps need a hand?

I have personal shields, particle weapons for anti-lightsaber / anti people blocking things, heavy weapons platforms which can be controlled Via AI... an AI to control them.

lots of things~

Should have made the blaster rifle a Maser though... easy update to add.

 

[Ellie Mors]

If the issue people see is technology, go ahead and start dropping ideas/requests in the pre-factory. I and others can help.