The Campaign, Activity, and other stuff.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:51 pm
Essentially, I feel it's time for some discussion. We're all bogged down in things, I know. But without discussion, we're never going to come up with new ideas. I want to give my take on it - if anyone else wants to give their view on it, and what they think should happen, that'd be great. But, as it stands, once the three squads finish their initial missions, we're still not doing all that much.
My take so far:
Gamma has essentially been kicked out by Xanthal. They're all gone. And they're not doing anything. Not any more. I feel an attack on Coreworlds and Gaia Rodina could really help Gamma activity.
Perhaps we need to revise Gamma targets. An attack on Abh or ND right now could, perhaps, slow the invasion on me.
Delta, the privateer group, have done damage. Sufficient to their resources, I'd say. They haven't made any major impact as of yet, but that's because it's moving fairly slowly, and the GFFA haven't had any chance to RP their impact.
Alpha's done remarkably well. They've done well with Kendari, and it's been a stonking good RP. However, we're looking at sheer overkill. I think they could safely split their forces into another system now, and begin trying to make sure Kendari's well and truly out of the war.
Funnily enough, Beta's done the most. But, at the same time, it's accomplished very little of those initial goals. Hell, we're only just starting on attacking Kendari, for the most part!
However, so far, we've taken down Yukatania and Neo Zeta, which is hardly a miniscule contribution.
So, based on this, I think we need to revise, at least a little bit.
Alpha: CF, Torontonias, Metallinauts, Noberusi (sic), and AZN.
I believe all of Alpha' active. That's five or so members. Perhaps four.
Gamma: Indra, Sskiss, Jordi, Mindset, Peng, Neo-Mekanta, and NG.
Gamma's fairly inactive, so far as I kow. Mindset, Peng, and NM might be the only ones.
Beta: Xenonier, HT, JJR, Crystal Palais, Chronosia, Siesatia and Azaha.
Xenonier, Chron, and me. That's all.
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That's a brief, but cluttered (Hey, it's one) summary of the war so far. We started off with twenty nations. (5 for Alpha, 7 for Gamma, and 8 for Beta). We're down to what's probably 4 in Alpha (I believe), three in Gamma, and three in Beta.
So yeah. Our capacity for waging war has been halved. Sure, the GFFA isn't active either. But I don't believe that half of them are inactive. We might have taken down a third. Right now, due to OOC inactivity, we're not ahead.
I'm being invaded (I'm not sure about Otagia), with a fleet of around 1.5k ships. Not terribly dangerous, but it shows that we're hardly omnipotent. If they can throw around that kind of firepower still, it also shows they're hardly toothless.
So here's my suggestion, in its totality.
Firstly, we need to ditch the squad mentality. Putting people into groups worked at first - it's not any more. We have ten of the largest, most arse-kicking nations in NS. That may not be twenty nations, but it's still enough firepower to level the entire fucking GFFA. We need to split up more, and start taking down the enemy wholesale. We still have an overwhelming amount of firepower. However, I fear, if inactivity continues the way it has been, we could be looking at a.. distinctly underwhelming amount of firepower. And ending the war is bad. Ending the war on GFFA terms because of inactivity will destroy us.
Secondly, any forces you have that aren't needed for defense, any at all, we can use. We can still open new fronts. We can unleash a lot more hell on the GFFA than they ever suspected we could. But we need every man jack to do so.
That includes the privateering nations, as well. If you're not wholesale into the war, please! We need you in there! Every ship you can muster is another ship the GFFA has to counter! Every post you make is another blow against this crippling inactivity!
Now, down to really specific suggestions. I'm listing every nation that they listed at the start of the war, so we can see exactly what we've done.
Kendari: He's a great guy. And I suspect, given enough application of force, we can get him to concede. He's not batshit crazy, and Xenonier's liberal enough to get him out without too much collateral damage. If we can force him out of the war, we can get Alpha and Beta up again. His posts are beautiful - and I enjoy reading them, but having two squads rely on one person simply isn't taking risk into account. If he goes inactive, suddenly half a war's worth of effort is down the drain.
The Solarin League: Nothing. He's not a major threat, as of yet. If someone has the location of his worlds, and wants to start fraggin', that'd be awesome. But it's not vital.
Xanthal: He's all but ignored us. And N-G, the last combatant, is leaving. Then again, since he's all but ignored us, we can turn right around, and all but ignore him. I suggest simply leaving him. Once he wants to play on our terms, let him. Before that.. he can't kick us out of threads he doesn't make, no?
Whyatica: He's been inactive for ages. Another non-entity.
Tidan: It appears he's re-entering the galactic scene. If he re-enter the war, things could be bad. But, as it stands, he's a non-threat.
Godular: Beautiful, isn't it? -1 for them, +1 for us. We love you, buddy!
Yukatania: Due to real-life, his nation collapsed after the invasion of Harvest. One mission kill there.
Neo Zeta: He's currently RPing the end of his nation. I believe Chron has dominated him well and truly.
Gaia Rodina: Damn, the GFFA's as inactive as we are!
Talaax: He should be active. After all, he was elected in the GFFA as Diplomacy Head. (Of course, we wouldn't know that ICly). I'm not sure about his activity, though..
Beta Aurigae VII: He was in, then I shot down a plan they had (Y'know, because we had nuclear weapons, so putting facepaint on and sneaking through jungles after surrendering ain't a winning strategy), and he started screaming that I didn't know how to have an fun RP, or something. It was then someone else said something about him not being in.
Coreworlds: Ah, it'd almost hurt me to invade CW. The guy's great. I'd think the best strategy for CW is a mission-kill. We offer him ESUS aid in the war with Sith, equal to, say, half of the forces that we would need to invade him, to betray the GFFA. If he doesn't take it, we invade him. One way or another, we win there.
Trinity Prime: He said he wanted in, but I haven't seen anything.
Tannennmille: Ditto to Trinity Prime.
Abh: Our two main dudes. Abh, and New Dornalia. Perhaps they're not terribly big, and perhaps their posts aren't epic. But Abh, even though he's skirmishing with ND, remains a threat. He's active enough to launch an invasion of me, and, to put it quite simply, he's the heart of the enemy war effort. However, he lives in spaceships. Which are, needless to say, harder to pinpoint then planetoids.
New Dornalia: Like Abh, he's active. And he's constantly on the ball. With these two, we're looking at the two most dangerous GFFA members there are. My suggestion is quite simple. Invade. We have the force. Get a few fleets, and show him the napalm-covered olive branch of the ESUS. If we can destroy him, he'll have to come home. If he comes home, Abh's fleet in my territory will be crushed. If Abh's fleet is crushed.. we will be able to slaughter him, decisively ending the war.
Those are my suggestions. And my take on the war. Does anyone else have something to say; or some complaints to make about what I've said. (If you do, let the disjointedness go. I'm functioning on a distinct lack of sleep right now, and I'm having a bit of trouble with sentence structure, let alone advanced post structure)
My take so far:
Gamma has essentially been kicked out by Xanthal. They're all gone. And they're not doing anything. Not any more. I feel an attack on Coreworlds and Gaia Rodina could really help Gamma activity.
Perhaps we need to revise Gamma targets. An attack on Abh or ND right now could, perhaps, slow the invasion on me.
Delta, the privateer group, have done damage. Sufficient to their resources, I'd say. They haven't made any major impact as of yet, but that's because it's moving fairly slowly, and the GFFA haven't had any chance to RP their impact.
Alpha's done remarkably well. They've done well with Kendari, and it's been a stonking good RP. However, we're looking at sheer overkill. I think they could safely split their forces into another system now, and begin trying to make sure Kendari's well and truly out of the war.
Funnily enough, Beta's done the most. But, at the same time, it's accomplished very little of those initial goals. Hell, we're only just starting on attacking Kendari, for the most part!
However, so far, we've taken down Yukatania and Neo Zeta, which is hardly a miniscule contribution.
So, based on this, I think we need to revise, at least a little bit.
Alpha: CF, Torontonias, Metallinauts, Noberusi (sic), and AZN.
I believe all of Alpha' active. That's five or so members. Perhaps four.
Gamma: Indra, Sskiss, Jordi, Mindset, Peng, Neo-Mekanta, and NG.
Gamma's fairly inactive, so far as I kow. Mindset, Peng, and NM might be the only ones.
Beta: Xenonier, HT, JJR, Crystal Palais, Chronosia, Siesatia and Azaha.
Xenonier, Chron, and me. That's all.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
That's a brief, but cluttered (Hey, it's one) summary of the war so far. We started off with twenty nations. (5 for Alpha, 7 for Gamma, and 8 for Beta). We're down to what's probably 4 in Alpha (I believe), three in Gamma, and three in Beta.
So yeah. Our capacity for waging war has been halved. Sure, the GFFA isn't active either. But I don't believe that half of them are inactive. We might have taken down a third. Right now, due to OOC inactivity, we're not ahead.
I'm being invaded (I'm not sure about Otagia), with a fleet of around 1.5k ships. Not terribly dangerous, but it shows that we're hardly omnipotent. If they can throw around that kind of firepower still, it also shows they're hardly toothless.
So here's my suggestion, in its totality.
Firstly, we need to ditch the squad mentality. Putting people into groups worked at first - it's not any more. We have ten of the largest, most arse-kicking nations in NS. That may not be twenty nations, but it's still enough firepower to level the entire fucking GFFA. We need to split up more, and start taking down the enemy wholesale. We still have an overwhelming amount of firepower. However, I fear, if inactivity continues the way it has been, we could be looking at a.. distinctly underwhelming amount of firepower. And ending the war is bad. Ending the war on GFFA terms because of inactivity will destroy us.
Secondly, any forces you have that aren't needed for defense, any at all, we can use. We can still open new fronts. We can unleash a lot more hell on the GFFA than they ever suspected we could. But we need every man jack to do so.
That includes the privateering nations, as well. If you're not wholesale into the war, please! We need you in there! Every ship you can muster is another ship the GFFA has to counter! Every post you make is another blow against this crippling inactivity!
Now, down to really specific suggestions. I'm listing every nation that they listed at the start of the war, so we can see exactly what we've done.
Kendari: He's a great guy. And I suspect, given enough application of force, we can get him to concede. He's not batshit crazy, and Xenonier's liberal enough to get him out without too much collateral damage. If we can force him out of the war, we can get Alpha and Beta up again. His posts are beautiful - and I enjoy reading them, but having two squads rely on one person simply isn't taking risk into account. If he goes inactive, suddenly half a war's worth of effort is down the drain.
The Solarin League: Nothing. He's not a major threat, as of yet. If someone has the location of his worlds, and wants to start fraggin', that'd be awesome. But it's not vital.
Xanthal: He's all but ignored us. And N-G, the last combatant, is leaving. Then again, since he's all but ignored us, we can turn right around, and all but ignore him. I suggest simply leaving him. Once he wants to play on our terms, let him. Before that.. he can't kick us out of threads he doesn't make, no?
Whyatica: He's been inactive for ages. Another non-entity.
Tidan: It appears he's re-entering the galactic scene. If he re-enter the war, things could be bad. But, as it stands, he's a non-threat.
Godular: Beautiful, isn't it? -1 for them, +1 for us. We love you, buddy!
Yukatania: Due to real-life, his nation collapsed after the invasion of Harvest. One mission kill there.
Neo Zeta: He's currently RPing the end of his nation. I believe Chron has dominated him well and truly.
Gaia Rodina: Damn, the GFFA's as inactive as we are!
Talaax: He should be active. After all, he was elected in the GFFA as Diplomacy Head. (Of course, we wouldn't know that ICly). I'm not sure about his activity, though..
Beta Aurigae VII: He was in, then I shot down a plan they had (Y'know, because we had nuclear weapons, so putting facepaint on and sneaking through jungles after surrendering ain't a winning strategy), and he started screaming that I didn't know how to have an fun RP, or something. It was then someone else said something about him not being in.
Coreworlds: Ah, it'd almost hurt me to invade CW. The guy's great. I'd think the best strategy for CW is a mission-kill. We offer him ESUS aid in the war with Sith, equal to, say, half of the forces that we would need to invade him, to betray the GFFA. If he doesn't take it, we invade him. One way or another, we win there.
Trinity Prime: He said he wanted in, but I haven't seen anything.
Tannennmille: Ditto to Trinity Prime.
Abh: Our two main dudes. Abh, and New Dornalia. Perhaps they're not terribly big, and perhaps their posts aren't epic. But Abh, even though he's skirmishing with ND, remains a threat. He's active enough to launch an invasion of me, and, to put it quite simply, he's the heart of the enemy war effort. However, he lives in spaceships. Which are, needless to say, harder to pinpoint then planetoids.
New Dornalia: Like Abh, he's active. And he's constantly on the ball. With these two, we're looking at the two most dangerous GFFA members there are. My suggestion is quite simple. Invade. We have the force. Get a few fleets, and show him the napalm-covered olive branch of the ESUS. If we can destroy him, he'll have to come home. If he comes home, Abh's fleet in my territory will be crushed. If Abh's fleet is crushed.. we will be able to slaughter him, decisively ending the war.
Those are my suggestions. And my take on the war. Does anyone else have something to say; or some complaints to make about what I've said. (If you do, let the disjointedness go. I'm functioning on a distinct lack of sleep right now, and I'm having a bit of trouble with sentence structure, let alone advanced post structure)