The Coalition: TR, Mattherson and so much more!

rienholt · 2012-11-23, 11:41 PM

This a repost from http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=43871 on the main Outfit recruitment forum but may be missed by people clicking straight through. Admins, apologies if this need to be removed.

The Coalition
www.coalitiongaming.org

Basic Info:

Time Zone: Predominantly US but we have players in the UK, Europe, and Eastern Asia
Faction: Terran Republic
Server Location: Mattheson
Short description: We are a 7 year old community comprised of various communities. Our core members have played a variety of games and are generally in their 20s. We are affiliated with the communities of AGN (Agents Gaming Network, so named before Auraxis Global Network

), DARK, Delta Triad and New Conglomerate Special Forces
Member Target: Fun Individuals
Website: www.coalitiongaming.org

History:

The community has its roots in Planetside and was formed in late 2004/early 2005 by Ambient (myself) AKA AmbientOSX for the purposes of uniting the best snipers on the Original Planetside's EMERALD server. This group forms the core of our community to this day. We’ve played Planetside, UT2004, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, APB, Age of Conan, Space Cowboy, Transformice, League of Legends, Diablo 3, Battlefield 3... and many more games together. Our member base has played pretty much every game you can imagine.

The Coalition was formed a number of years ago to facilitate member sharing between prominent groups from the original Planetside. We are not a merger; simply a conglomeration (read: coalition) of groups looking to find like minded individuals to game with.

Our Approach to PS2:

We will do whatever is most fun and most effective. Saying that our outfit(s) will only do X, Y or Z thing seems pretty silly to us at this point, especially since we don’t know how gameplay will work. We’ll play fair, but we’ll never be afraid to get a little bit dirty (think plasma in the old Planetside or perhaps AA). This isn’t a popular opinion even within our own ranks at times - we’re no strangers to the concept of e-honor. That said, lets be honest, we are playing a game and we are playing to have fun/beat other empires. We’ll do that however we can.

What We Offer:

We are a community of communities so we offer everything. You can play however you want and fit into whatever group suits your playstyle best. We have a very robust website and are continually adding features to it. We have benefits for active members, perks for members who financially support the group, and we are ramping up the events we run constantly.

A big plus: WE ARE CURRENTLY PLAYING OTHER GAMES! (Diablo 3, Battlefield 3, League of Legends) Planetside 2 will be great, but it will not be your life immediately nor indefinitely. The idea of joining a community centers around finding a group of players in this crazy world of online PC gaming that you can stay with throughout the tempest that is changing games/games dying/new games coming out.

Join us in any other game we’re currently playing (Diablo 3, Battlefield 3, Eve Online, World of Warcraft) or game we intend to play (PS2, GW2) and you’ll see why this is awesome.

Who We Want:

We want players who are mature, who want to have fun. We’ll give almost anyone a shot at membership. Be courteous, be fairly politically correct... but most of all just have a good sense of self. Oh, also, motivated players looking to improve our community/put in some work to make it better/provide some leadership are always a plus.

WE ARE ALSO RECRUITING COMMUNITIES! Think about The Coalition as a force-multiplier for your existing community. WE ARE NOT A MERGER. We simply provide assets that you can take advantage of and a growing userbase that your players can interact with in a growing number of games. The more communities that join, the more members we’ll have, the better our events will be, the greater our impact in games, and the more fun that will be had overall.

Rules:

Don’t be stupid. Be mature. Think about how you’re acting. Our rules are pretty simple.

Want to join?

So many ways to go about it. You could fill out an app here: www.coalitiongaming.org/apply or you could talk to one of our active managers/officers on xfire (ambientx, borisgt, rienholt, killsh0tz) or you could just make an intro post on our boards or you could register on our forums and then login to our (Mumble) voice server at voice.coalitiongaming.org:9000 with your forum username/password and just start playing with us. Or you could shoot me a private message here. Or you could come to my house at... haha nope maybe not that way.

Want to know more?

Post here and we’ll tell you whatever you need to know.
Like our website? Maybe we can help with yours: media.coalitiongaming.org

rienholt · 2012-11-27, 09:50 PM

If you're interested in getting to know us better we will be at PAX East 2013 as a group.

You can also talk to us on Mumble if traveling to Boston at a future date isn't what you want to do to make a decision on an Outfit now.

rienholt · 2012-11-30, 01:18 PM

Ambient's Speech on the Founding

Hello and welcome to the Coalition.

You probably have a million questions about this place. What is it? Why are communities getting involved? Who came up with the idea? What for? What are the goals? Who can join? What are the rules? Over the next week there will be posts made which can answer those questions. For now, a basic overview should help answer a good portion of inquiries.

My name is Ambient and I am a leader of a gaming community known as Agents Gaming Network. We started in Planetside like most of the people who are founding this group. I have led AGN for some time and have met many good friends in my gaming experience who have helped me build this tight knit group. Even now that community is growing more than ever before. Why approach other groups with the idea for the Coalition now, when things are going so well? It isn't too complicated.

Leaders of the communities involved in this can see similarities in their groups; slow growth is necessary for quality, activity can be an issue due to the majority of members having real life commitments, influence in games is limited by size, etc. The Coalition is meant to create a new type of organization that has not yet existed in gaming communities. It is a collection of groups, each with their own atmosphere and rules. Each of which have come together to achieve something greater than what any could accomplish alone while maintaining a good balance of size and quality. It is not a merger; mergers cause drama and deemphasize the importance of the member in favor of the mob. The organization grows too large, too fast and many members are forgotten in the process. It is not an alliance; an alliance is non-committal and the bonds between the members of the alliance are never able to grow as strong as those between the members of the groups that form it. Often the goal is temporary or related to a single game. What we are doing here relates to multiple games and goals both short and long term. Essentially, we hope to create an organization that maintains member diversity, shows maturity, shows a sense of humor, facilitates strong friendships, upholds high standards of recruitment, remembers the importance of member identity, compartmentalizes management, expands easily, and leverages the advantages of both large and small groups simultaneously to become more than a considerable force in the games we play. How can this be done? Isnt it impossible to bring so many people together without drama?

The Coalition relies on four core principles; structure, leadership, management, and membership. Structure is important for supporting the other three parts. The community is broken down into factions, branches and members. Factions represent the communities which are incorporated in the Coalition. Branches are outfits or guilds which are run by leaders and members of those factions. Members are the people who are either in a faction or just in the Coalition community and choose whom they wish to play with. In summary, communities are coming together and sharing members between their branches in order to cross-strengthen their in game groups and out of game friendships.

Leadership belongs to the faction leaders. It is our responsibility to continue to succeed in game, improve conditions for members, and cooperate with the other leaders in the Coalition. A strong and unified group of leaders is required to bring this community together. Management is a similar deal, though its importance is organizational and functional purely out-of-game. Tasks like moderating and web development need to have people assigned to them. This will be facilitated by a team of "Community Managers" who handle out-of-game organization.

Finally, the Coalition is about the members. Games are meant to be enjoyed. Every member deserves to do what he or she wants in a game without being inhibited by their community's size. Nobody should have to give up their group of friends simply because they want to be a little more or a little less serious at a given time. The purpose of the Coalition community is to build on the bonds already made. Members continue to exist in their faction but are provided a larger group, with gaming as it's sole focus, in which they can find an incredibly diverse group to play with. We want to give people as many options as possible. We will play games on the same side, lead groups together, fight together, build our base, share a forum, share ventrilo, and continue to strengthen the core. We will stack the odds against those we fight and we will laugh every time someone cries about it. We're here to have fun however we can without being immature. We're here to make more friends. There's nothing impossible about it.