Should The Fuel Rats Mischief Minor Faction be found in the Bubble 2.0 ?
Hello everyone, [heart]
I am Kerenn " Two Jumps" Vatueil, a Fuel Rat P.R.O. (Press Relations Official). [redface]
We recently received an email concerning Jaques Station and the surrounding space, which I'm copying here :
"I wanted to get in touch with you to talk about Jaques and the population of the second bubble.
Many Commanders have been taking part in the development of this bubble roughly 20,000 light years from our current human space. The response has been fantastic and the first planetary port is now in. Soon we will see a small number of NPC minor factions develop as the bubble begins to be colonised and we’re asking you, our loyal player groups, to come and join in!
As groups, you have grown and developed your factions over the last year + and now you can have the chance to create a second, mirrored faction and planetary port set up in the new bubble.
Here’s what we’re considering…
Every month player groups would nominate themselves to try and build a branch of their faction near Jaques. Each month we will hold a public vote and the groups with the most votes will be selected to get complete a CG. If their groups completes the CG then they will have built a faction near Jaques.
Then the fun really starts. As with all factions the background sim changes. If your faction was to retreat fully, the final place it will be retreated to will be Jaques station itself. This means that any faction retreated all the way back to Jaques would be removed and effectively removed from the new bubble. Consider this a new space, somewhere that powers haven’t taken dominance over yet and you can join and become a part of the story, form meaningful alliances and gain and hold your own territory.
Logistically, we would probably start off with a larger number of groups in the first month try the CG and then each month we would get a small number of groups from the votes to do the CG and attempt to head out there.
All factions created after a successful CG will be added into a location and with the base type and economy type being determined by Frontier and will be a completely new faction in the second bubble. This to allow the process to be manageable.
What we would like is your feedback. We want to know how many groups would be interested in taking part and having their own CG to get a faction out in the second bubble.
All thoughts welcome. Please do reply back and let us know your thoughts and if you and your band of space brothers would be interested in taking on new frontiers."
We've been discussing this internally but a consensus couldn't be reached.
On the one hand, a Forward Base of Operations could prove to be invaluable to our work.
On the other hand, we Fuel Rats don't want to fight over Turf and as such some of us fear we might make some enemies if we were to, say, expand somewhere around Jaques. So there's that.
Which is why I've gathered you here today. I want to hear what the community at large has to say about it. Do you want us to open a Jaques Chapter ?
Here are a few of the things we've considered :
Some stuff that came up in the discussion and needs to be cleared if you're starting from the beginning :
Hello everyone, [heart]
I am Kerenn " Two Jumps" Vatueil, a Fuel Rat P.R.O. (Press Relations Official). [redface]
We recently received an email concerning Jaques Station and the surrounding space, which I'm copying here :
"I wanted to get in touch with you to talk about Jaques and the population of the second bubble.
Many Commanders have been taking part in the development of this bubble roughly 20,000 light years from our current human space. The response has been fantastic and the first planetary port is now in. Soon we will see a small number of NPC minor factions develop as the bubble begins to be colonised and we’re asking you, our loyal player groups, to come and join in!
As groups, you have grown and developed your factions over the last year + and now you can have the chance to create a second, mirrored faction and planetary port set up in the new bubble.
Here’s what we’re considering…
Every month player groups would nominate themselves to try and build a branch of their faction near Jaques. Each month we will hold a public vote and the groups with the most votes will be selected to get complete a CG. If their groups completes the CG then they will have built a faction near Jaques.
Then the fun really starts. As with all factions the background sim changes. If your faction was to retreat fully, the final place it will be retreated to will be Jaques station itself. This means that any faction retreated all the way back to Jaques would be removed and effectively removed from the new bubble. Consider this a new space, somewhere that powers haven’t taken dominance over yet and you can join and become a part of the story, form meaningful alliances and gain and hold your own territory.
Logistically, we would probably start off with a larger number of groups in the first month try the CG and then each month we would get a small number of groups from the votes to do the CG and attempt to head out there.
All factions created after a successful CG will be added into a location and with the base type and economy type being determined by Frontier and will be a completely new faction in the second bubble. This to allow the process to be manageable.
What we would like is your feedback. We want to know how many groups would be interested in taking part and having their own CG to get a faction out in the second bubble.
All thoughts welcome. Please do reply back and let us know your thoughts and if you and your band of space brothers would be interested in taking on new frontiers."
We've been discussing this internally but a consensus couldn't be reached.
On the one hand, a Forward Base of Operations could prove to be invaluable to our work.
On the other hand, we Fuel Rats don't want to fight over Turf and as such some of us fear we might make some enemies if we were to, say, expand somewhere around Jaques. So there's that.
Which is why I've gathered you here today. I want to hear what the community at large has to say about it. Do you want us to open a Jaques Chapter ?
Here are a few of the things we've considered :
- Pros :
- We could have Jaques Based Long Range Rescuers. Being closer to the center of the Galaxy, even if off by a margin, means we're theoretically closer to everything (and hopefully everyone) inside.
- We could put our name on something, because we're shallow like that. [praise]
- We get a shiny new base to hide Snickers in.
- Cons :
- BGS seems to be fierce up there, and we don't have the manpower to maintain a faction there. Worst case scenario is we're wiped out of the place and come back to today's operating standards. But then, what would have been the point of going there in the first place ?
- We don't want to take someone else's spot in the lottery.
- We don't want to cause any jealousy or envy.
- We don't want people to think we've been granted that opportunity because we're Frontiers Favourite or something. ( We are, we just don't say so publicly ) On that note, this email has been sent to many player groups already, it's not Fuel Rats Specific.
Some stuff that came up in the discussion and needs to be cleared if you're starting from the beginning :
- We're not going there to do BGS, lose neutrality or take sides. We're going there to put our name on a fancy rock. Because we're shallow like that.
- The Fuel Rats are already in every corner of the Galaxy. [praise]
- We'll continue doing what we do and offering our services to anyone, anywhere, anywhen, anyway.
- Whatever the outcome of this poll and whatever happens in the game or outside of it, we remain. We remain Independent, Anarchic, Cooperative, Loyal to no one and everyone...
- Rest assured the Fuel Rats are a very professionnal bunch and are absolutely never in the whole ever distracted by anyth... Is that a Snicker out of your rear pocket ?
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