What is the TU

[Corey's OOC]

Chat is good, chat is great but it gets too fluid.

[member="Tmoxin Temi"]
[member="Lucien Cordel"]

What is the TU to you? What should it be?

[member="Raziel"]

What was the TU when we ran it, what did you want it to be? What should the TU be going forward.

[member="Draco Vereen"]

What could the TU do to make it more interesting.

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I know I pushed the cyberpunk thing heavy for a bit. It didn't work, moved, adjusted, going into Rhys's administration it dropped. If we want to recruit, we should get ready soon. We have the biggest Star Wars event.... EVER coming up. We stand to bring a lot of newbies to the board.

And we could get them, if we can be cohesive.


To me, I was here when we were still the CIS. We had a neutral faction, worlds ran themselves with the CIS overseeing. We had the Templar, a lawful neutral/good Force Order that had a purpose to patrol the CIS space and beyond.

Then Verd fiasco happened.

We reformated the Templar into the OO, and that was good. A Lawful-Neutral/Dark Force Order, focusing on using technology to further the goals of our businesses. Anti-criminal, anti-hacking, potentially very noir and spy versus spy, especially when we bring in the SpyNet.

Faction reformated CIS -> ACA -> ASA -> Finally the TU.
We're business focused. Yes, I pushed criminal. if this faction is going to work, we need to handle it how it should be, which is the 1% and their tools.

What I would do is keep on keeping on with our business stuff, bring the OO in more, focus on criminal NPCs, and let people run opposition as a criminal mastermind if they want.

If we cut the fluff

TU is business
TU improves lives of our planets (mostly, still has room for seedy NPCs)
OO protects the business leaders assets
SpyNet performs intelligence missions to run our companies.

Going forward, the TU and OO should be the focus, we are the engineers of the board, we're the entrepreneurs, and we need to protect what we have. We're a corporatocracy.

 

[Tmoxin Temi]

This is great! The TU direction has always been a challenge.

I do want to point out that the OO and Spynet didn't rate highly on the polls so just want to be cautious about reviving those if the members want more dominions, skirmishes and business/dev threads.

[member="Corey's OOC"]

 

[Corey's OOC]

So, do we put the SpyNet and OO on the backburner? Thats fine.

What is the TU?
Where should the TU go?

 

[Kyber Salurra]

So, do we put the SpyNet and OO on the backburner? Thats fine.

What is the TU?
Where should the TU go?

We need to make this place the go-to for any and all people that create a company. We need to drill it into people's heads that if you have a company and ur not in the TU that ur company is a rusty turd compared to the ones in the TU. We need our name to be synonymous with everything capitalist. We need to dominate the Factory and get every contract possible. This is first.

Secondly; we're missing out on a huge market of new players. NFU Soldiers. When people think TU they don't think 'that place seems like the place to go to be a respected military character and get threads done'. Players are tired of joining places that FUs get all the fun and do all the cool combat. Like you said, the Obsidian Order didn't work. This is just my opinion on the matter, but if we focus all of our military efforts on getting NFU soldiers into the TU and brand ourselves as "NFU Friendly" and kinda shy away from the normal FU superiority I feel like we could bring in a lot of great people.

That being said, a lot of soldiers want to be the 'good guys'. This creates a small problem. We don't have to be the 'good guys' we just can't be the bad guys. The Mandalorians have a lockdown on bad guy mercs, there's nothing we can do, however, if we present ourselves as a neutral faction that will accept soldiers that wish to fight for a good cause and will get priority over FUs i feel like we could bring in a lot of valuable assets.

|| [member="Corey's OOC"] || [member="Tmoxin Temi"] || [member="Lucien Cordel"] || [member="Draco Vereen"] ||

 

[Tmoxin Temi]

I like (and have always liked) the idea of recruiting more NFU military types. What would your suggestion be on how to bring them in? Should we run an advertisement? Create a special branch of the TU devoted to these characters?

[member="Kyber Salurra"]