OOC Thread

[Jeyar]

Well, if I didn't have 2 items on hold, and IIRC 6 questions still up in the air, I'm pretty sure I would at least. 

[Dave Baughman]

OOC:

Terasen dead due to head shot in battle via ER Small Laser. Real shocker of an ending.

Aidan Pryde is working for the FWL? Now we're all in trouble.

[NVA]

*tap* *tap* *tap*

Is this thing on?  Is it working?

[GraeGor]

*tap* *tap* *tap*

Is this thing on?  Is it working?

hmm, maybe you better test it

try hitting the keys of CTRL + ALT + DEL at the same time



*hehehehe*

[GI Journalist]

Rather than musing in the OOC with these lengthy posts maybe you should bring this stuff up IC. Kind of novel idea, don't you think?   

It may be on topic, but its still out of character. I don't get to have a lot of in character dialogue with the Clan players, so I appreciate the opportunity to get their perspective on the Clans in FC 62 as a whole. We're off the map of canon, so their opinions are what will chart the future of the game. I have seen some good role-play from them on the subject, and I'm waiting to see how they'll address these issues in game.

I just finished reading Trial Under Fire by Loren Coleman (a complementary e-book packaged with the free release of MW4).  It details the Smoke Jaguar attempt to reestablish their Clan after the defeat on Huntress. I thought it gave good perspective on the Smoke Jaguar mindset, and why they failed.

[GreyJaeger]

Keep in mind, there is really no cross-dialogue in between the Clans and the IS...AT ALL. Every once in a while, there may be a chat, but it is always seems to be extremely limited in scope, i.e. the planet/battle being fought. A lot of this came from the meta-game before the move from CBT.com to this site, and the change in management, as well as a buttload of players. Neither side wants to talk, and both sides are 100% sure in the righteousness of their cause.

There is also the issue with the communications blackout between the Clans and IS. With only two Clans in the area the Dark are operating, and they are probably hearing rumors at best. The rest of the Clans may be barely aware that the Dark even exist, at best.

Rather than musing in the OOC with these lengthy posts maybe you should bring this stuff up IC. Kind of novel idea, don't you think?   

It may be on topic, but its still out of character. I don't get to have a lot of in character dialogue with the Clan players, so I appreciate the opportunity to get their perspective on the Clans in FC 62 as a whole. We're off the map of canon, so their opinions are what will chart the future of the game. I have seen some good role-play from them on the subject, and I'm waiting to see how they'll address these issues in game.

I just finished reading Trial Under Fire by Loren Coleman (a complementary e-book packaged with the free release of MW4).  It details the Smoke Jaguar attempt to reestablish their Clan after the defeat on Huntress. I thought it gave good perspective on the Smoke Jaguar mindset, and why they failed.

[GraeGor]

 

holy chit




I honestly didnt expect that...though I do like the color

[tassa_kay]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 

[Jeyar]

Okay...

Who's in charge of the Union of Independant Worlds? UIW... Ewies? I am sort of worried/curious that the TC accidentally set that ball in motion a hair - their orders until Lyrans showed up was to build up their defenses...

[Cannonshop]

*ahem*  There is a place, where (because they're not occupied by a Clan, but they're not shooting at every Clanner they see...) where information might be able to flow to the Clans via one or two of their number...and info ON the Clans' internal conflicts, rivalries, internal alliances and such can flow the other way.  Assuming no interdiction, nor invasion for a little while, it might be really an opportune location for both sides to run intel-gathering operations, make 'backchannel' connections, and do all that nifty stuff.

(like, for instance, making the Clans aware of "The Dark", or hurling propoganda around...)  It's that little, seven system brown smudge on the map, sandwiched between the Star Adders, Goliath Scorpions, two factions of Lyrans, and the big empty.

The ability to dope out what the objectives, conflicts, politics, methods, and intent of your enemy can sometimes help you predict his movements beyond the obvious, and by doing so, allows for more than "ROFLSTOMP FOR PONY!!!" as a basic operational strategy (if you miss the reference, go read "Looking for Group").

There are advantages to HAVING a neutral in this situation-among them, a means of inserting agents, moving intelligence, gathering intelligence, making contacts, and arranging side-deals to make the conflict less...bi-polar.

[DXM]

I'd love to make use of that brown smudge except for the problem that any Rim Worldersw are going to be shot on sight.

[Cannonshop]

I'd love to make use of that brown smudge except for the problem that any Rim Worldersw are going to be shot on sight.

...then shot again.  Yeah, but you can probably make friends with the Marians or the Taurians, or even make overtures to the Cappies, Feddies, or Dracs.  I hate to say it, but you're in a position I wouldn't want to try to play out (and I'm playing a seven-system smudge with two factories that generates about 3 RP per turn at most!)

My advice to you, is to use 'false flag' tactics, and start working hard on 'making friends' who can either act as cats-paws, or listening posts, and maybe try making nice with the Terrans-they're the strongest kid on the block, and less ill-disposed toward you (being, for the moment, 'safe' from you) than, say, the Skye-Donegal lyrans or some of the other factions near or on your border.

(and hey, at least you don't have to prostitute yourself just to be moderately viable!)

[Jeyar]

Actually some clans HAVE been directly informed about the Dark.

I'd almost want a list of the factions that would claim they HAVEN'T been. 

[Iron Mongoose]

Well, no one's directly informed the Camels.  I think we know, but no one tells us anything these days.

[Daemonknight]

I dont see why who knows about the Dark is such a big deal...most factions prolly don't care. Most Clans most likly couldn't care less right now: in case you havn't noticed, we have some issues here on our half of the IS, namely the IS trying to kill us, and also trying to frame us for exterminating them.


You know, I wonder...the LIC says its the Clans, because that works in their advantage kinda-sorta, even though most ppl would know the Clans havn't done that before(that I know of). Alot of Lyrans prolly think it was the RWR, which doesn't make sense, because that would just vilify them even more, making them more hated: serving little purpose.

I wonder if it wasn't The Blood: I mean, sure it destabalizes the Lyrans, but from their perspectivs, the LC was falling apart anyways from the Clan onslaught. This way, the Lyran state fractures, which doesn't really do much other than to strengthen garrisons in the provincial capitals instead of the random worlds that're no longer important: it also galvanizes many nations against the Clans and RWR. And nobody would believe it was another IS state, not in the middle of a war against te Clans.


Tricksy little hobbitses, those GMs