AGN: PS Chat - Outfit Roundtable

[Marsman]

Attn: Outfits - AGN's Planetside Chat will be having an Outfit Roundtable scheduled for Friday Feb 28th at 8:30p EST.
What we would like to have is 3 or 4 outfit leaders/representitives from each of the empires to kick around a few outfit related topics. Outfits leaders wishing to participate should PM Marsman or Hamma. Please include the name of your outfit, empire, any information about your outfit you feel is relevant, and any topic suggestions for discussion you might have. Also the community can post topic suggestions here that you would like to hear the outfit leaders/representitives discuss.
Should be a good time. We'll post the final list of outfits and the representitive's names as soon as the list is final.

[Sputty]

Sounds interesting. How will you pick the outfits included? Size or age or first come, first serve?

[Marsman]

Well, pretty much first come first serve, although preference would probably be given to the larger well know outfits as they represent a larger cross section of that empire's community. We'll see who wants to participate first and how many responses we get.

[MrVulcan]

this sounds like a blast
Cant wait, even if The Freedom Corp doesn�t get in, it will still be a blast

[Sputty]

How could they not let Spock in? There's no way! Absolutely no way! If not then you can "presuade" Marsman with your advance telepathy.

[Marsman]

[MrVulcan]

http://www.startrek.com/library/media_tos.asp?id=114015

Yep we Vulcans start with the Mind meld cert.

yesss... come closer Marsman, I feel that we need to ... meld ....

*Let Freedom Corp in..... Let Freedom Corp in.... Let Freedom Corp in.... It is your only logical course of action....*



But on a more serious note, Im just wondering how the response has been thus far, ballpark, how many thus far? And how many do you expect? Im bored, Just wondering�.

[Spinning Hat]

=ATF= would like to attend.


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[Flynt]

Heya Mars!

Phew, I am happy you pushed this thing back to Friday! "New Dawn" would LOVE to attend representing the New Conglomerate!

[WNxUndeadFenix]

I doubt Warrior Nation will participate but I'll kick around the idea with the other guys...I don't think we want a lot of attention until PlanetSide is actually in stores.

[Marsman]

A reminder to PM either Marsman or Hamma for those who wish to participate. I'm gathering the list from the PM's so don't just make a post here. Community and Outfit suggestions for topics are welcome in this post however. Thanks.

[SeD Lancer]

Just an idea, but maybe the outfit leaders/reps could talk about a possable outfit cap( for members, and when if the dev team does not make one offical, maybe the large outfits in all empires could agree on, so no outfit becomes to large)
I think Id like to see a good amount of outfits, instead of smaller ones getting ingulfed by larger ones.

[OmnipotentKiwi]

For the Q&A: Will there be an alliance for the outfits to combine together (ala DAoC)?

[TheJrade]

Perhaps the best way to select the outfits involved will be to allow any who are interested have a representative member submit a few questions/suggestions/a short essay or something to see what they have to bring to the discussion. I'd much rather see an infomative exchange of ideas than fifty fanboys asking about 'rideable dragons' or somesuch. (sorry, Ultima Online forum inside joke)

Oh, and by the way, the member cap for outfits, while not without it's drawbacks is the best fraggin' idea I've heard in a while. Perhaps not a cap, but some other way of limiting an uber-guild's power... some sort of CP/BEP gain reduction based on number of members online maybe?

And just for my Vanu-flavored vote, The Vindicators!

[MrVulcan]

I was wondering if there can be a way to show an alliance in-game, (dont know if that is what you ment omni) .... I dont think that that will happen outside of platoons, etc, but if so that I wonder if you can declare new temp leaders of the alliance to go back and forth, like General dies, the other sides general takes over, he dies, back to the 1st group, etc That would be nice.

Also, just a BTW, if when you die, can you set it to auto grab the next highest outfit rank, or do you have to specify who gains cmd after a death. I know that this probably depends on them making it uniform outfit ranks, but wondering even if they dont can you specify if the next in cmd is just going to be like "find general" if no general, "find Colonel" if no colonel... etc etc etc...

Also how popular is the idea of uniform ranks in game? I would go for it, so long as it made sense and wasn�t like having 50 diff ranks, or only 3 ranks or something. How do the other Leaders feel about this?