Citizen's Aid Society
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Sinperium 5 months, 1 week ago.
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Since we’ll have a year or more before actual play, it will give me enough time to organize and setup this.
The game “Traveller” was based on the concept that people would hitchhike around the galaxy (pretty much like Douglas Adams portrayed in “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy).
The “Traveller’s Aid Society was a volunteer network that helped these “travellers” get safely about the galaxy.
Reading all the PvE vs PvP and the like threads I thought it would be better to have an in-game solution instead of nerfs, segregated servers and all the other divisive and pouty solutions people might ask for.So I am setting up a forum tonight and will post the details then for my effort in this direction and am calling it the “Citizen’s Aid Society”.
It will primarily be volunteer pilots who will come to the aid of traders and non-combatants under attack when they are able. On the site you’ll be able to state if you are simply a citizen who wants aid in those circumstances or if you are also willing to give aid.
No clan tags–just a “gentleman’s club”. No one will tell you how to play or force you to be a certain thing or prevent you from being in other clans. You just have to be willing to help others.
We can also compile and assess risk areas, put out warnings and maybe even help now and then by offering a bounty.
Let me know if anyone wants to assist me on this. Thanks.
So is that kind of like a collection of people who refuse to turn a blind eye if someone is in need?
Thanks Duncan-if there can be only one let it be…
You sound perfect–I’ll get back to you tonight when I have something built. Thanks! I love your IOU idea too–brilliant!Yep Boraxx, groups like yours would be one that we could endorse and recommend. Sort of like a positive rating with the Chamber of Commerce or Better Business Bureau.
And thanks much Icinix.
Looking forward to seeing y’all in game.
I like the idea and would like to be part of the Citizens’ (note the plural possessive) Aid Society. I’ll check back to this thread for contact info or website, when you get the chance to get it online.
And the reason people will help is because they know others will be willing to help -them- when the shoe is on the other foot.
-Irish
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Yeah, I see where you’re coming from and I like the idea of a free, but mutually beneficial aid group. I want this as well, but some people will only need aid and will never be able to give aid, and won’t be able to join the CAS. The fee-based aid was sort of a side idea that would run in parallel with the free CAS Member network, but is an entirely separate idea. But the benefit of rolling the two groups into one is to simplify things and to give the group a bigger name.
But the basic idea is that some people, like miners or traders, will need to hire people to protect them in low-sec space. Usually they will get a merc before hand, but if their protection is inadequate (or if they’re dumb and forgot to get protection), they can call on the CAS instead of just dying. They can’t be considered normal members of the CAS since I don’t want to rely on a mining ship to help me out if I’m in trouble. So for them, it’s sort of like hiring a merc “on-the-fly,” and the nearest CAS merc who responds will get the job. For me, it’s like helping people who need it, but instead of payment being the “shoe on the other foot” idea, I’ll just get paid as if I was their merc. (Except maybe at a premium since when you hire a merc, you don’t guarantee danger, but if you’re being attacked and ask for CAS assistance, danger is a given.) If the idea of the CAS is to help only legitimate travelers, then the services can be limited to those who are honest merchants and miners.
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This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by
Red Rocket.
You might not want a mining ship to help if you were in trouble, but if you called for help and a half dozen mining ships showed up and saved you, that might be a bit different. You have to realize just who will most often be operating in remote areas, so who will most often be the ones coming to your aid.
-Irish
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