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The Garrison vs The Byn



Conflict: Transit Protection

Area: Red Desert

Summary: The Byn has lost funds when the Merchant Houses formalized their relationship with Kurac and Luirs. Now the Garrison supports incoming and outbound merchant caravans and VIPs. The Garrison needs to do this for relations because if Luirs becomes less safe to travel too the new Merchant alliance might fray in addition the Garrison ostensibly does this for free as part of their duties. The Byn is losing lucrative wagon/argossy/agent contracts and they need to stay above water. The easy transit protection is valuable because they're less likely to die.



Objective: Create a small rest stop between Allanak and Luirs and charge entry while using it for your own escort missions.



Outline: Both the Byn and the Garrison have to scout areas, staff will give them a list of possible locations, all locations are shared so there is interest in them. Before an outpost can be secured the PCs need to meet certain occupancy limits like... I don't know X amount of hours camped out in those spots doing RPTs to clear out immediate threats. Both the Garrison and the Byn are given private bounty rewards for dressing up like raiders and disrupting the others attempts. Eventually you create some safe rooms out in the desert charge 100 sid to get in unless you're with Byn/Garrison officer whoever wins the conflict. Profit for all and then just you know make a secondary plot line to attack this outpost and burn it to the ground and start it all over. Give some fun prestige and bonuses to having it up and running. Higher pay, whatever.

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Aug 26, 2018 at 7:30am QuotePost Options Post by Jeshin on Aug 26, 2018 at 7:30am

Explicitly and publicly limiting a vague and highly hyped rolecall to a very few is one of the reasons people discuss staff pets, staff favourites, staff friends, staff cliques, whatever. The very concept of a public rolecall with no transparency doesn't really inspire much confidence. Now to be fair to staff even nowadays I constantly see very adequate RPers doubt themselves and rather believe staff have favourites than put themselves out there and try. Sometimes it's less truth and more protection mechanicism. Sometimes it's more truth.



I'm going to be frank, I skimmed this rolecall but as a rule of thumb if I were going to say I have special roles for X amount of people I might also emphasis strongly that this is part of a larger overarching plot on the game that all characters will be affected by and these roles are merely flashpoints from which staff will move out from and back to and out from again. The roles serve the game and all existing characters not this is for super special awesome characters. You know if that's how they're planning to do it.



Coffee.
^ what I wrote

Clearly my commentary is about the fact that role calls reinforce the perception of staff cliques, pets, and favoritism rightly or wrongly because of the history of it on the game. I then continued to go if you still -had- to have a rolecall you should probably downplay that the role themselves are special and that they are serving a metaplot narrative which is for all the players not just the chosen few. Far from being SJW it's just common sense to address you know the ill will the playerbase feels about these sorts of things. I also didn't say a paragraph  

And as noted I admit right in the middle there I barely read the rolecall and this is more of a generalization.

If they reviewed the policy, announced an update, acknowledged that it was an issue in the past but now in the future it will be resolved appropriately. I don't think people will be mad at future rezzes and instead be pleased the staff finally realized it was silly.

EDIT - To clarify I don't think there's any value in arguing about what they should have done. They had a policy. The deaths didn't follow the policy. The issue is they fix the policy to be reasonable but actually grant rezzes when appropriate. Crimcode nonsense should be appropriate. Use dissatisfaction of the past to create a more appealing future.

Arx has hard code systems and permadeath and over 400 unique accounts with 5 staffers. It also has new systems being implemented every 6 months or so.

Haven has hard coded systems used to be much more populated and have 3 staffers of which only 1 actually does any plot and 2 others are just insane coders.

Armageddon does objectively have very little accomplished for its staff size. It is not debatable in any fashion if they have more than 5 staffers they exceed the staff count of most text-based games and the fact there is hardcode to assist them is a productivity multiplier not a negative.