*hands Shak a tranq and a bottle of Sake*
ummmm...hmmmm...yes...whole truckloads of these little pills found their way into our hands when you dumped that garbage called Diamondcut on our doorstep. New form of warfare? Toss your criminals over the fence to us?
You sure are messy soldiers...for looking for a few treaty-breaking Clanners you seem to manage a lot of collateral damage. Maybe need more gun range practice?
*smiles, gives Shak a big virtual-hug and hands him a whole pack of tranqs*
Heck we already have 'drug-induced diplomacy' with supression gas...everyone grab a martini and a handful of tranqs and we'll all just sit out the next 24 years of Omni 'rule' at Reets drinking, dancing and... *grins at her wife*
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Originally posted by Shakkles
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Alright first of all.
Who the hell are you... sir.
And don't pull that "I'm a newbie that has 2 posts" crap, maybe you did register this month but you're obviously somebody i do know.
It was a clever trick trying to mispell Meister and Kithrak's names to throw off any su****ion of your newness, but I know how to spot subterfuge.
I don't know whether to thank you for the kind observations or put a gun to your head and make you spill the beans about what you know and how you know it.
I don't mind the ill-comments about my "soldier" wit, that's okay i pay people to think up well-sounding speeches, but i don't like nameless snoops.
given, they've been flashing the info about the ICC military coming down for a while now on the rubi-ka headline service, but how many first month newbies know about Meister and Omni-Pol falling apart?
Come clean. you don't have to do it here and I can't force you but...
yargh...
I hate the idea somebody's spying on me and I can't have somebody spying them :/
My thoughts thus far are that you're one of two people.
Ca*l
or Dr*krt*r
Get back to me ingame, this is going to bug me...
Oh and one thing for Luxxan.
YES, Omni-Tek is hated among the ICC corporations, but why worry... All ego aside, statistically we don't need them. We're jsut kind of humoring them to keep them off of our asses.
YES, we do take orders from the company and yada yada yada.
But that was typed when we used to get orders unfortunately.
You see, up until a couple weeks ago, the other 2 components of ours, OP and Red Tape and ourselves routinely got orders from the parent company given by our story counterparts such an Major Kiaela for AF and Ivan for OP.
"Omni-Pol, See to this prison transfer. Red Tape, convince Opposing Force that we aim to put aside the past and seek peaceful coexistence. Omni-AF, send a couple squads out to the wilderness to trap and capture one of these "Deep Spiders" dead or alive."
It was fun.
The reason for our recent militant actions is mostly in part to... it needs to be done.
But I'll admit, since our sources started coming up missing (no doubt just quit working for FC) we feal like an old whore tossed aside by the pimp for the new hotness.
As would you.
And after about 50 rings you start to realize the person just isn't home anymore.
So when FC started pouring their resources into the clans and their crappy DB-based story, we decided HEY, no WAY are we going to be unwilling pawns in your little mock-massacres to appease the flea-ridden masses. And started fighting back using the law of the land and our training to our advantage.
A word of advice to those individuals.
When you plan on using your old friends for target practice, be sure to fill any loop-holes in your plan prior to meeting up with them in battle.
Now Cz is trying to get a concrete storyorg system down pat, and we've agreed to cooperate completely provided old statures are returned and supported.
And yes.
We will always follow the orders of the company without question to the bitter end.
-Theodore Shakkles Ganes
-=Omni-AF=-
OOC: so what do you WANT, Shak?
I'm gonna keep this OOC.
I like your stuff Shakkles. I have to admit you are extremely entertaining (when I can read my computer screen through the pot smoke, that is...lol).
It does seem that you are supporting the FC drive to get the Clans going. I suspect that FC will dissolve the COT (and the Tir Accord?) soon. Maybe not soon enough to save any pretention of a storyline. But, as you said in at least one earlier forum post: "We are the story." So, lets get down to business.
What do you want the Clans to do? Do you want us to form a force of 50-100 high level players and meet you somewhere? You know that FC will never make the cities gas free, so we can't really fight over them. And, can you wait for the unproven land-control scheme?
Further, do you believe that AO has the tech muscle to handle large scale PvP battles? I think not: AO crashes under normal circumstances too often, and MISSIONS become so laggy a person can barely move. So, OOC, what do you want? At least, WHAT DO YOU WANT THAT IS CURRENTLY POSSIBLE?
I like the way you bait the Clans, but what is the purpose? Have you tried contacting Clan org leaders and developing some stories with them? I have become a leader in my org, and I would love to work with you (at least during the times I have run out of crack ROFLMAO). I assume you have tried this, but I could be wrong.
So, keep up the wonderfully comic baiting, but I also hope you are doing something constructive to keep you and your org entertained. Insults and humor ain't gonna keep the home troops happy! I know. I have tried to get my org souped up with propaganda, but the few that bother to read anything at all don't go anywhere with it. All the semi-interesting ideas die on the vine. If you have anything truly engaging to offer as an alternative, please share. I would love to play with you. Just don't hurt me...
If you are interested, respond to this post. Then I will contact you ingame. I prefer not to post my player name on these forums. I assume you will keep it confidential even though you are a villanous, arrogant, dim-witted automaton who mindlessly supports an oppressively greedy, short-sighted corporation. (Just had to slip a bit of in-character BS into this post as a finale...hehe)
Typothetae
SWG? AO? Story? Not-story?
(entirely OOC post)
First off, any game will have people hanging out in bars chatting. They did it on the really early MUDS I used to play, and they do it in the latest greatest MMORPGs.
SWG will pull a lot of people because of it's license. It's Star Wars. People will go for that. I won't, for much the same reasons as already given.
So why AO?
In a lot of cases, people just stick with what they play. There is always the crowd that just jump to whatever is newest, and in most cases there is nothing anyone can do to prevent those losses. I suspect AO has had a fair number of those kinds of people for a while.
AO's story is a fantastic backdrop. I find it so much easier to write stories and role-play in AO than I ever did in EQ, or many other environments. My biggest concern is for people like Shakkles and Meister who have taken it upon themselves to take 'big' roles in the story. Omni-Pol and Omni-AF are both big roles.
What Shakkles is asking for in a way to 'really' settle things is, amongst others, a drop in supression gas to 25% or 0% in most areas. While that is fantastic for role-play, it is also fantastic for grief play. When you've been ganked at the reclaim terminal for the twentieth time and you're level 2 on your first account, you won't be coming back.
There is no repurcussion for activities except disciplining, so if it were possible to build and plant a bomb in a building, then within a month all of Tir, Athen, Omni-1 and Rome would just be piles of rubble. Simply because you 'can' and therefore people 'would'. Chances are most of the bombs in Omni-1 would be planted by OT employess who just want to see what they do.
In short, AO is limited by being a multiplayer game. I honestly don't think SWGs system is going to be any better. From what I can see its just guild war with 'enforced' guilds.
If FC did the same thing here. Lets say, for example, that players can join Omni-AF or the Sentinels and so doing marks you as a 'PvP anywhere' player. Even these people would only be able to fight other PvP-anywhere players, thus you'd still not be able to forcibly evict people from Rompa or what-have-you. All it would do is facilitiate in playing the game in your style with people of similar style.
As an aside, is it beyond the wit of the Clans to make themselves a decent lounge bar?
Small but important point
Omni-Tek wouldn't be able to protect its own just as much as the Clans wouldn't. Omni-AF or Omni-Pol are not every 24/7, and particularly for those outside of the regular timezones they'd become 'fair game'
And believe me, if the supression gas dropped then level 2 (and 1) characters would become prime targets for a really pitiful type of player. The type that would create a level 10 (or 8) person whose sole purpose is to kill level 1s and 2s. And because of the 75th level thing you mentioned, those people who want to do something about it couldn't!
The solution of removing the PvP level ban isn't sensible either, since it means people no longer have to go to the trouble of getting hold of a special grief character.
If that happened, the backyards in which most new people arrive would be more camped than the grid at MMD or 2HO. Because there are enough people who really are that pathetic.