Hello everyone.
Last years success with the Council Of Truth has been a joy to be a part of for the ARK-events team, so now we are interested in doing something similar for the Omni Tek population...
The concept is this. A Omni-Tek meeting with department representatives, and even Phillip Ross himself, to take place once a month. Now, one thing we have to keep in mind is Omni-Tek is not a democracy, so it would not be like the Council of Truth meetings where people get to vote on things.
The idea here is for more direct information and instructions from the Omni-Tek department you choose to affiliate with. IE: Omni-Med, Omni-Trans, Omni-Pol
The meetings would be structured in a way for each department head to outline the current plan and set direct tasks for those affiliated with them to follow. This in turn can be used by us to involve you more directly in Storyline happenings, regular events and event quests, as well give you the opportunity to do more role play with your faction.
What it will also do is introduce you to more Story characters and allow you to interact directly with them, inside the meetings and outside the meetings. complete a task for the department head and report in. Next meeting you get a nod from the bosses, and possibly a write up of your deed in the Editor news.
That is just one example...here is another.
A group of fugitives are on the loose around Rubi-ka. The head of Omni-Pol has given descriptions of them, and known locations to all the people affiliated with Omni Pol. over the course of the next month (before the next meeting) These fugitives can be found and arrested (or killed depening on the situation) and turned over to Omni-Pol. You won't know when or where they will be, but you have been given as much information as possible to help you find them.
Again these are only concepts at this moment. The purpose of this post is to gather feedback from you, about this concept and to see if there is enough interest to move forward with it.
One thing we would like to keep similar with this project and the council of truth is the player run aspect. Right now the Council of truth has a Clerical Staff who send out emails to players about meetings and happenings, have discussion forums and stay in direct contact with myself for updates on our end (they do this through a player created bot).
For the omni meetings we would also like to see player run message boards and a group of dedicated players who can stay in direct contact with us, and send out emails to those who are signed up for the meetings etc. Again, this has been a very possitive tool for the council of truth and I believe would be for the Omni meetings as well.
Please post your feedback below on this topic, and we can discuss the concept further. I myself am looking forward to this taking shape, and have wanted to see it happen for a long time. I personally think the success of the Council of Truth has been the perfect springboard to do this on the Omni side, and of course we will continue to support both as we progress through the year.
Cheers
Socialfly