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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 28, 2013 23:58:03 GMT -8
I previously sent this out as a message, but forgot this was the standard method of communicating inquiries, so I'm posting it here.
I have enough people involved for the formation of a usergroup, though the nature of our organization prevents us from having an established headquarters on a specific planet. Currently, our HQ operates out of the Imperial-II class Star Destroyer that serves as our flagship, and I'm wondering if a location could be created in the event we are approved, to reflect this.
Like a "GALSAF Flagship, Basterd's Hand" thread, within some random non-planetary location. Basically, rather than create an HQ on a planet or moon's surface, create one on board a ship in the middle of…well, no where, especially considering our HQ, as it exists now, has no fixed location.
If that's not possible, no worries, we can choose to establish ourselves on someplace like Coruscant, where GALSAF was officially formed to begin with.
Cheers and beers, and thanks for all your guys' efforts in getting the new site up!
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Post by Xeonon Solomon on Aug 29, 2013 5:33:38 GMT -8
I am no whill but I may be able to help. You are allowed to have a space station as a HQ and on 1.5 I know of one thread being made in the hyperspace thread for The Illusive Man. So there is that but as for the SD I dont know. If it was me I would use it as a mobile command center and have a space station for repairs.
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Post by Shaman Chill on Aug 29, 2013 20:56:12 GMT -8
Xeonon is pretty much correct, so long as you can provide a detailed explanation for what your headquarters is, where it is located, and how it was created or constructed, we will consider creating a forum for it. It should have a reasonably fixed location, however -- we're not going to want to be moving it around for you very often.
Also, I'm sure you know this, but just as a reminder for anyone else who may read this later, having a hidden, non-planetary headquarters does not meant it can't be located IC by your enemies or other opportunists. It still has to be a real, in-Universe location that could be located and visited by other players outside your group.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 29, 2013 21:03:46 GMT -8
I DO like Xeonon's suggestion, it's a good one. However, our organization isn't large enough to man a station that large, it would feel awkward assuming we could. We exist solely on donations and generous benefactors (IC established ones!), so it doesn't sound like something we could afford.
Though to clarify the "location" of the HQ: It would be wherever we were operating, but the thread itself would stay wherever it was put into the boards. No need for it to move around at all.
Whenever we wrote there, we would establish IC where we happened to be at that time in the story, though the physical location of the thread needn't be altered once placed.
And yes, our IC location will almost always be within a far cry of some planetary body/inhabited system. We won't be disappearing into the Rishi Maze to protect our backsides every five minutes.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 29, 2013 21:09:15 GMT -8
Imagine: "Commando Joe Schmoe looks out over the bridge of the GALSAF Flagship, Basterd's Hand, gazing out over the planet of Naboo."
Five minutes later, after we've began a story on Manaan.
"Commando Joe Schmoe looks out over the bridge of the GALSAF Flagship, Basterd's Hand, gazing out over the planet of Manaan."
Only IC updates on location. Sorry if that was super dumbed down, just wanted to make sure everyone understood what I meant, because even I confuse me sometimes.
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Post by Adrien Draykon on Aug 30, 2013 14:16:00 GMT -8
Why not just make a page like a Traveler's Guide entry and have a "Current Location" section that can be updated to show your current location?
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 30, 2013 20:17:56 GMT -8
That's a great idea, actually. I like it. Though the thread itself will have to go somewhere, and you don't think it would be weird to have our location changing on one page when the HQ itself will always be on some planet's surface? The traveller's update is a solid idea, one I'll definitely employ, though as long as the information on the page asserts we're never in the same place for long, having an HQ thread attached to a single planet would seem…odd. That's just me though, I'm not trying to eke out special attention or anything.
Another idea could be: Unknown Regions>GALSAF Armada Basterd's Hand
Sub-boards could include Bridge, Main Hangar Bay, Brig, Engineering Sector, etc.
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Post by Shaman Chill on Aug 30, 2013 20:35:52 GMT -8
Since there's no longer a time limit on editing posts, you should be able to simply update the first post of one of the threads, no?
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Post by Adrien Draykon on Aug 30, 2013 20:37:50 GMT -8
Yeah that's kinda what I was getting at.
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Post by Adrien Draykon on Aug 30, 2013 20:47:53 GMT -8
Thanks for that btw, I like it much better than the time limits.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 30, 2013 22:22:37 GMT -8
That's a solid plan, I like it. Where would the thread physically end up, then? I would still suggest Unknown Regions, considering it's out of the way to begin with. Granted, that's a logistical thing for the Whills to handle now, I suppose.
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Post by Adrien Draykon on Aug 30, 2013 22:24:54 GMT -8
I'd say a hyperspace forum (probably the one you feel you'll be most active in), of course there's always the possibility to have a ships and space stations forum made, unless everyone thinks that would be a complete ripoff.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 30, 2013 22:46:47 GMT -8
Not a rip off, per se, but since we're not a large enough organization to logically be capable of running one, it wouldn't feel right. The nature of our organization requires mobility, which means mobility of our headquarters elements as well, so the station would never see any real use. Again, simply making that same thread, though labeling as our flagship, sounds like a perfectly viable option.
And as you suggested, Adrien, we could simply update the Traveller's Guide entry to reflect our current IC location.
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Post by Adrien Draykon on Aug 30, 2013 23:12:42 GMT -8
What I mean is a forum where people can create things like this, you'd have a sub-forum for your HQ, I could say have a sub-forum for the Shadow, Fel could have one for the UA, and so on and so forth. What I'm saying though is that it could potentially be construed a ripoff of another site.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 31, 2013 9:27:17 GMT -8
You obviously have already seen that idea employed somewhere else then, or else I have no idea what you mean.
Regardless, how is shufflig about threads and forums rippin off of anyone. This feels like a purely logistical problem, is all.
Logistical issues are solved logically, and therefore it's hard for us to rip anyone off. We don't have to hold back from taking a logical "next step" in an area simply because someone might have done it before.
I think I need clarification on what you're talking about, Adrien.
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Post by Liya Tawaza on Aug 31, 2013 19:30:03 GMT -8
We (Fel Crew) actually don't want a thread for our ship(s). It's an unnecessary complexity.
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Post by Adrien Draykon on Aug 31, 2013 19:53:57 GMT -8
You were just an example, I wasn't saying you guys actually wanted something like that.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 31, 2013 20:39:14 GMT -8
Thank you for that judgement on your own chosen methods of operation, Liya. I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm making the Fel Crew's decisions. lol
A headquarters thread does not provide any specific and indelible benefits, however it is allowed and a resource we'd like to have handy. It's become more complicated than I think it needs to be, then again it took me some time to most accurately describe what we were looking for.
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Post by Ander Tagira on Aug 31, 2013 20:39:47 GMT -8
Either way, Adrien, that isn't a bad idea at all. I'd support it.
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