Alta Mesa Headquarters (Community Play)

[lixxx235]

bookworm21: I don't believe I've seen you before. Pleased meeting you

[bookworm21]

And same to you too, @lixxx35

[En1gma]

It's great to have you back, comrade. Let us turn from our previous ways of haughty politicking to the ways of war!

[lixxx235]

CdrPlatypus: can you put me on the Alta Mesa roster?

[lixxx235]

OK, I think I'm all caught up on goings-on. I never saw a vote or anything to confirm En1gma as the leader if we fail to reach internal consensus before the cycle ends, but I certainly support that.

By the way, how are we going to really manage this? I was kind of thinking each of us can propose measures on what the faction as a whole does, and the proposals can be considered to have passed when either an absolute majority of faction members vote affirmative for it, or a two-thirds majority of members who have voted on it and sixteen hours have passed since it was proposed? For example, any proposal with three votes for is considered to have passed, and a proposal with one vote for, none against, and sixteen hours since being proposed also passed?

Also, in my personal opinion proposals should be either "internal" proposals, such as "Proposed, that En1gma be designated our head representative who may make a vote in the Faction Council by himself if no one happens to vote" or external proposals such as "Proposed, that Alta Mesa vote affirmative on (so-and-so proposal in the Faction Council)".

Also, for debate, how about the following proposals:

• Proposed, that En1gma be designated our head representative who may make a vote in the Faction Council by himself if no one happens to vote
• Proposed, that the High Templar be requested to set cycle lengths, for the next 5 cycles or until the xeno is encountered, at 24 hours per cycle

Apologies for overly whatever-weird-style-of-talking-I'm-doing; on Wikipedia, a couple months ago, I was appointed to the clerkship of the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee, so I've gotten a bit bureaucratic recently

Thoughts on this?

[En1gma]

I propose that a quick and efficient system of ONLY 'liking' a proposal or set of proposals if you agree with what it/they contain/s. If a proposal is 'liked' by a majority of the faction, and no dissents are raised, I (Or whomever is writing that cycles proposal) will consider it to be approved and will be transmitted to Templar High Command.

If a proposal is largely agreeable, then 'like' it, and post a rebuttal or amendment below it and TAG the OP of the proposal so that they can debate and make any necessary changes to it. This allows us to have a fluid means of efficiently ratifying proposals.

As far as requesting cycle deadlines for CdrPlatypus, I think we should let him decide on how best to handle cycle lengths. This is a TON of work (I failed to run one because of just how many things there are to do...) and the last thing we need to do is cause any undue stress.

[lixxx235]

Alright, less bureaucratic it is

[En1gma]

Simple, my friend.

[dragolord]

That's fine by me. Also, welcome back, lixxx235!

[CdrPlatypus]

En1gma The High Templar appreciates your understanding of his workload. (It is a lot of work, but I am committed to running this game. I love seeing how it has brought the community around here)

[bookworm21]

To: En1gma dragolord lixxx235
CC:

I propose that we claim Bomias Landing as a suitable site for our second colony, with Haley our second choice. The high quality of Bomias landing should offset somewhat the lower quality roll of our colony ship, with the narrower range of values for Haley also working in our favour.

[dragolord]

Apr 18, 2015 5:21:32 GMT -5 bookworm21 said:

To: En1gma dragolord lixxx235
CC:

I propose that we claim Bomias Landing as a suitable site for our second colony, with Haley our second choice. The high quality of Bomias landing should offset somewhat the lower quality roll of our colony ship, with the narrower range of values for Haley also working in our favour.

I concur. Haley is in a better tactical position, but at this stage, the low quality may prove damning. Bomias Landing it is.

[En1gma]

My friends. Just outside the fog of war, to the north and west lies a system that will be critical to our defense. Radiation reports have shown this for some time now. I have been plying our political influences to secure this system and have not received anything less than a positive reaction from the other factions. I urge you to consider this system for our next location.

CdrPlatypus- perhaps a turn cycle would be well spent on exploration before we are locked into the few systems we can see?

[CdrPlatypus]

I will send the Templar fleet to continue scouting during this turn cycle, but I want to give the clans the opportunity to begin negotiating territory rights. There are currently 7 unoccupied systems that have been added to our star charts and we have many souls in need of homes.

[bookworm21]

To: En1gma dragolord lixxx235
Cc:

Apr 18, 2015 7:26:06 GMT -5 En1gma said:

My friends. Just outside the fog of war, to the north and west lies a system that will be critical to our defense. Radiation reports have shown this for some time now. I have been plying our political influences to secure this system and have not received anything less than a positive reaction from the other factions. I urge you to consider this system for our next location.

I had not noticed this system. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

With regards to our claim to it, if the other factions support it then we could take advantage to secure another colony first while still maintaining rights to the NW system. Unless of course this NW planet has better Q/M, in which case further debate is unecessary, providing we all agree.

I feel that in this early stage we should be focussing on claiming the best value colonies rather than necessarily the one in the best tactical position. Having said that, I will support the decision of this Council whatever it may be.