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As most of you know, the guild isn't doing so well on the active members front. So, I'm starting a discussion to try and get ideas on how to restart the guild again. I'd prefer not to do a wipe and reconstruction, if I don't absolutely have to.

Things to discuss.

1. Active member count.
2. Recruiting strategies.
3. New mech designs.
4. Anything else.

Its looking more and more like I will have to commence a complete retool of the guild. There are a lot of out of date threads and stickies that need to be revamped and updated.

The problem is, it will take a few days to do a complete retool and rewrite alone. Thats not something I really look forward to do.

Also, recruiting is the hardest thing to do around here. It would be nice if there was a way to send out mass PMs to members, right now each name has to be separately added by hand. That is a time consuming and labor intensive task.

wow, Wolf actually posted, good to see you again, wolf

back to the discussion, I have an idea, although you might think it's stupid, ermor

Okay, just don't say I didn't warn you............

six months ago I discovered a game from Square-Enix called Front Mission 4, the main plot is to stop a terrorist country from taking over the world, and the whole game is based around that, but, more to the point, the way you fight is strange, in that only certain weapons can be equipped on certain mechs, and you could only get access to certain weapons after a certain level of experience and fighting, now, I know that may sound kinda stupid, but what if we took that style of equipment procedure and transferred it to the guild, with a few modifications, of course

With the stanardized weapons, creativity goes down the hole. But, being able to know the aspets of your buddy's weapon is a plus. Things like range, cycle rate, ammo capacity and power could help coordinate battles easier.

People who have been in the Guild for a while can use the weapon's they have now, but the relatively new/unexperianced member would have to follow the weapons guide for a bit.


there now I'm in the conversation!!!!!!!!

True, we could at least compile a list of enemy mecha and weapons.

We had started a project to begin compiling weapons and technology, it just never got finished.

I started getting a few lists together regarding enemy mecha and such, as well as adding a tiny faction guide. I say the first step in getting a 'standard' for enemy mecha setting the ground rules on the technology limits. I think my problem is, is that I'm trying to start at the top instead of the bottom.

One thing is, is to limit what can be done, but not so much as to stifle the creativity completely. Kinda like, you have between this point and this point to work with.

Getting the weapon tech down would really be helpful.

Ok so... you guys are wanting to bring it back to life well instead of merceneries why not army? So when a new person joins they get a standard mech and they do not creat there own but we keep the credit system but they have to complete bootcamp or simulations and they can buy there own weapons and new and better mechs. When they finish they get a bonus of I don't know about 500 creds or whatever. Write me back.