Ducimus,
Your posts about the organizational nature of the NC really had me thinking...and reflecting. As was stated a couple posts earlier, there is no NC figurehead to speak of. But, as your investigation came to show, there are a number of large NC outfits on Markov and that one point is the defining element of the NC's "perceived" organzation.
By way of example:
Saturday: I'm curious about infiltrators, so I start one. I then "instant action" him into a fight. After assisting with the CC hack on whatever base I was in, I receive an invite to a squad. Hack finishes, mop up some Vanu resistance and we move on. During our 2nd battle, I get invited to join the outfit that all of the squads' members belong to. Now, I'm used to EQ guilds as command structures for organized raids...but I never, ever, could've imagined what happened next: Our squad gets "orders" to recall to the Sanctuary, by a senior outfit officer. He then splits pilots out of squads (of which 3 full squads appeared in the Sanc) and with haste, makes an all-air squad and two ground-assault squads. He "orders" the creation of AMSes for each ground squad, armor, hacking personnell, etc and before I knew it, we were a force of 30 people. All in roughly 20 minutes of fast-paced messaging. For the next 4 hours, we're unstoppable as we steam-rolled our way across whatever continent we were on and all the while, the Outfit's leader is quite literally barking orders: go here, secrure this, cover that, pull out. But perhaps even more importantly, each of the 3 squads leaders would enforce the Outfit leader's orders with motivating lines like "You heard the man!! Move it!" and the only-heard-once comment of "It took you all too long to get out of the base, make it snappier next time". And you know what? We did make it snappier. And the more we did the better we got and the better we got the more "new" soldiers who would join us via Instant Action and before I knew it there were over 100 NC blitzkrieging the continent...together. It was amazing.
And if scenarios like the above are rare to non-existent for the TR...then I feel really lucky to have gone NC on Markov...really, really lucky.
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2003-06-03, 02:23 PM
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