(03-27-2015, 05:30 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Bolded for empasis.
[quote=Erik Mynhier pid=158786 dateline=1426623639]
The goal of this Summit is to bring together active Free Companies of Balmung to meet, interact, story plan, settle issues, and foster cooperation with other FCs for larger activities.
Yes that is the wording, and intent. But I think when those are read some assume it to be a macro server control. I will break it down as best as I can. My feeling, and I think if people are entitled to be rightfully suspicious of the intent through experience, then I am entitled to believe several have allowed their suspicions to cause them to automatically think the worse. I understand that I am an optimistic person and most are not. Let me clarify. Again this is a FC event, not a Balmung Control event. The point is to help FCs especially small ones, and to make contacts.
Story Plan - "Hey, our FC does "XYZ" and we were wanting to do a storyline with "ABC". Anyone want in?"
Story planning between two or three FCs is actually fairly common. I know the Red Wings have done a few, as have others I'm sure. It is exactlly what it says, a way to advertise your FC and to seek some multi-fc rp. If two or three FCs got together to spitball an Multi-FC RP on the Making Connections forum, no one would bat an eye. I understand the size of the event makes some nervous, and I am sorry for that. But if you come at it with a "glass half full" eye you will see that its not some server wide plot as it is not a server wide event. Its a FC event.
Settle Issues - "Can anyone help us build Airships?"
I went over this in the last post so I will leave it at that.
Foster Cooperation - "Anyone need anything? We can help."
This one is the scariest to people I noticed. I am not sure why. This is just those with some, helping those who need help. I do not see why anyone would not want to foster cooperation to help with problems people have. I will give you an example, and yes you can go behind me and ask to be sure I'm not lying lol. There is no housing available on Balmung as you all know, so newer and smaller FCs are basically SOL. So in that I found a FC rping one day and overheard they were new and in need of a hub. So I approached and offered the use of the RWs house. They could come and go as they liked, and ic/pretend it was their house. It was something I could do to help out someone in need. That is fostering cooperation. To check my story I will not post here their names, but a quick PM and I will tell you where to find them.
Larger Activities - "If we are going to go.... lets go big.
Again I think this is inturpetted two ways based on whether your glass is half full or half empty. It sort of goes to the other three. Cooperating to help eachother, helping a fc settle issues and problems they are having, and planning rps between similar themed FCs, I suppose if I squint I can see where all that could be twisted, but again my glass is half full and I take it at face value.
Its really boils down to those who assume the worst and those who assume the best. That I think is the point of conflict here.
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