STAR and PACT

[smilodon]

TS details for the meeting.  Fingers crossed for either Paul or Greg to be available to accompany me.

Apologies I forgot to confirm. This is me confirming.

Do we need to have a pre meeting meeting? For what it's worth I'm working in Letchworth on Friday if we fancy making the meeting a face to face, over a pint sort of meeting. If not maybe TS before hand?

[TeaLeaf]

You are welcome to drop in if you want Greg, but a TS chat on our server beforehand would suffice.   Letchworth to MK is not exactly a short journey!

Picking up on Paul's post in the Pilot's Lounge, the choice of our home system is an excellent question to ask PACT.   There's little point in being in  a system which is out of reach of other PACT members, so we need to collaborate.

[smilodon]

Tealeaf and I just finished up our meeting/interview with the guys from PACT. We were on for a little over an hour and it went extremely well. Most importantly of all they all seemed like really nice people who's approach to gaming fit in very neatly with our own. Personally I'm sure that our two groups will fit together perfectly.

Their rules require them to vote on our application and for us to get a 75% positive vote. They will have the vote up for a week so by next weekend we should know if we're in. It's not done till it's done but as mentioned the meeting went extremely well and I think we stand a very good chance of being accepted. As importantly PACT passed our test as well and are definitely a group we can become a part of without compromising our own values and ideas.

[Obsydian]

Thanks for doing this guys, and I offer my apologies for not being able to make the meeting: as I expected we had to go and visit my mother in law!

It sounds very positive and hope to be able to help out with this in future.

[OldBloke]

Thanks to you both. Did anything they say give you any clue as to where we should think about calling 'home'?

[TeaLeaf]

I forgot to ask, but I reckon we can talk to them about it next week when we're in. [emoji14]

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[TeaLeaf]

One of the things they did mention at the meeting was Imperium's in-game tool.   Apparently RSI have already told Imperium that the in-game will not (at launch or some some while afterwards) support the sort of fleet of fleet control they anticipate needing, so they have designed and made their own to allow coordination across groups that are collaborating.   We said that in principle we have no problems using such a tool and are interested in seeing what it can do.   Chimaera (the Imperium ambassador to PACT) said that he would be happy to show us the tool, so with this in mind I have set up an account (for me) on starcitizenbase.com and sent him a PM there to see about getting access so we can assess it..

It might be a seriously helpful addition to the game and once I get a response and some info I'll report back.

In the mean time, if you do set up an account there, could I ask you to preface your forum account name with 'dMw' for identification purposes please?    E.g. my account is 'dMwTealeaf'.

Thankee kindly! :worship:

[smilodon]

Nope wasn't discussed. Also nothing mentioned on the PACT website so I don't think it's been decided as yet. Once we're in we can raise the question.

I do know that the plan for Imperium, which is a huge Organisation, is to quickly carve out a home of their own somewhere in 'low sec' (fringe) space. As members of PACT I'm assuming we would have clearance to travel through their space and would be given protection by their members (reciprocal by us) while we were in or near their territory. We'd also most likely trade with them as well in whatever way the game allows. It might make sense to locate somewhere near to their location, so we could take advantage of this?

[smilodon]

One other thought is we'll need to provide our Star Citizen dMw Logo and decide what our full name will be. Are we going to be Deadmen Walking Heavy Industries and Novelty Goods Co. or dMw Conglomerates or Deadmen Independent Traders or what?

[TeaLeaf]

From Ephraim/Tannhauser (received Sunday)

Hello Tealeaf!

I wanted to thank you again for attending our Summit yesterday.  I could tell that everyone enjoyed getting to know you and smilodon, and I think our discussion was very productive!  The vote on your membership application has opened and I'll have a result no later than next Saturday.  We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

We usually take December off, due to busy personal schedules surrounding the holidays, so our next official meeting will be in January.  The majority of our inter-meeting discussions takes place on our forum.  If accepted, I'll create accounts for you and your Deputy Representative so you can join in.  If anything important comes up I'll schedule a special meeting to discuss.  Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or problems in the meantime!

Ephraim

[TeaLeaf]

And we're in.

Good morning, Tealeaf!

I had one Representative turn in a vote at the buzzer, but voting has now concluded.  The results were unanimously in your favor - congratulations on becoming our newest Signatory!

We can begin your onboarding whenever you're ready.  I'll need a few items:
I'll need the names and email addresses of your preferred Representative and Deputy Representative.  I'll have both added to our email list and will create accounts on our forum.
Please review our Signatory page.  Clicking on a logo opens a personalized page for each member organization.  I'll be creating a similar page for your organization.  Either you can provide text of your own, or I can write one for you.  If you would like your TS server included in the list of links, please provide the address and guest credentials.  Otherwise, I'll stick with your RSI Org and forum page.
Please provide a copy of DMW's logo.  Preferably at least 500x500 with a transparent background.
There's no rush on any of this.  Once your Signatory page is created, I'll draft an announcement and will update our website and RSI Org accordingly.  You and your members are invited to join that RSI Org (PACTINIT) - simply have them include a mention that they're with DMW in their application.

I have to run to a meeting in a few hours, but I can meet you in TeamSpeak in the near future to explain some details of how we operate during and outside of our meetings.

We'll need to draw up our own plan for announcement, the 'cleaning' of our membership and logos etc.   I've told Ephraim that I'll try to catch up with him during the week.

[BrotherTobious]

Great work guys well done

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[Obsydian]

Excellent news! Good work guys.