Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:04 pm by Atlantis Vyridian
[color=#00BFFF:7ktu3x3j]Bacca, actually Constanza Vinti has it all right there, in her response. But considering that you want councilors input, then I will go over your questions step by step, so we can reach an understanding.[/color:7ktu3x3j]
[quote="Innon'Ruuk":7ktu3x3j]If, for example, a planet controller who has registered businesses on the planet they control is attacked and ousted from the planet, ousted player would retain 50% of business profits for the registered businesses. Considering player is no longer located on the planet (ousted), how does the registered businesses get managed, and who has production rights - whose responsibility is the selling and marketing of the products and the various business dealings? Is that up to the new planet controller or the ousted 50%shareholder?
The business will still be managed by the one that has registered it. It is the one that has registered it that will continue to manage and keep selling/ marketing those products unless it falls into abandonment after 8 weeks.
Case in point, still the ousted 50% shareholder.
Do registered businesses no longer require any security or defense systems as nobody can ever take them away?
[color=#00BFFF:7ktu3x3j]Businesses are supposed to be neutral, you will do more harm than good for destroying that. Sure you can do some lobbying if you want. But realistically if that business is an important or prominent one, why would you want to destroy it? It is all about RP mechanics at this point. You get wind of who orders and when those products are engineered and when they are delivered. You can sabotage that so that those ships never reach their destination. Like Constanza said, it's all about writing a story and not just stopping at this or that profit anymore or who controls what or when.
After, it's all up to however you want to play a story out, just question this. When you stand in front of NASA and try to get in, but you don't have the clearances? What does happen there? You are told to step away, you can't go in there. Security and defense systems are still there.[/color:7ktu3x3j]
Why would a player invade or attempt to gain control of a planet for any other reason than to gain control of its profitable businesses and resources? What would motivate invasions?
What will motivate controllers of planets to fight for continued control when all registered businesses are not at risk ever?
[color=#00BFFF:7ktu3x3j]Look above, sabotage, knowing exactly who orders what, trying to find via IC means. Being "on site" so to speak will be easier to attain some information.[/color:7ktu3x3j]
Players interested in gaining control of a planet, should first apply to register canon businesses located there to have an advantage over the planet's controller and anybody who happens to notice a player registering businesses on a planet they do not control, would be fair in assuming that player may have attack plans underway.
[color=#00BFFF:7ktu3x3j]If someone tries to apply for a canon business that is located on this or that planet "controlled" by someone/ faction, we will ask if the one registering it asked for permission first and foremost and assuming that a player may have attack plans underway? Like I have said, the businesses are neutral but you can assume whatever you want as long as all information from your standpoint is something that you have gained IC and not OOC.[/color:7ktu3x3j][/quote:7ktu3x3j]
[color=#00BFFF:7ktu3x3j]After all, all I can tell you, it's no longer about profits or funds, it's all about the RP, we will question the legitimacy of the RP first and foremost and not the profits here and there.[/color:7ktu3x3j]
[quote="Aajax":7ktu3x3j]Yes, so my question then is this: If a planetary controller is allowed to collect 50% share of profits (cutting the business owner's own profits to the company in the process) is it also permissible for someone to say that they also have access to the facilities?[/quote:7ktu3x3j]
[color=#00BFFF:7ktu3x3j]Those 50% will never go to the "planetary controller" so to speak, they will vanish into thin air, it is for the population (NPC) those 50% are forms of taxes and tariffs for being there on their soil. It was never meant to be for factions or the planetary controller per se. After, we will keep saying over and over again that everything is about RP, things are permissible and as long as it stays in the norm, then yes but whoever accessed those facilities to try and steal the blueprints of the canon products of the company, that is a no. We are keeping those canon businesses in the original states for now but if you want to go in there (infiltrate, etc...) to sabotage a few things and try to gain some information or implant some bugs on this or that spaceship because you have come to know who ordered that, then yes go for it.
It is all about writing a story, RPing. Your choice really however you want to play all of those things out.[/color:7ktu3x3j]