PACT Announcement !

[smilodon]

Ladies and gentlemen,

A couple of items to bring to your collective attention.


DMW Organisation and Leadership

We have looked long and hard amongst our membership for the ideal candidate to lead us into the great unknown and to guide us as we carve out our fortunes in the Star Citizen universe. We need someone with dazzling charisma who is deeply loved and respected by the dMw community. They need to show a level of intelligence bordering on the genius coupled with strong leadership and a resolute nature so that the plebs (you lot) will be willing to call them ‘Master’.

After a very short search one name became the only serious option and so with no more ado I would like to ask you to prostrate yourself at the feet of your new Star Citizen Game Leader…… ME!

Joking aside I’m taking on the role but in the dMw spirit, the DMW Org leadership will operate in a relatively laid back way and as always we will be an inclusive, relaxed and fun organisation of which to be a member of.  Our RSI corporate entity, the DMW organisation) will be run by a Board.    I’ll be the CEO of a board, with  Oldie, TeaLeaf and Obsydian as my fellow board members.

Soon we’ll be announcing the internal structure we think will suit us best and start matching roles and responsibilities to names.

PACT Membership

For a while now (about six months) we have been in conversation with a group known as Powers Against Common Threats (PACT). This is an alliance of organisations that have come together in order to enjoy the larger scale activities planned for SC which lie beyond the scope of a single organisation. PACT also offers collaboration, support and protection and basically a way for us to enjoy all the Star Citizen has to offer within a group that has thousands of members while still enjoying being, first and foremost, part of our own smaller and close-knit dMw community.

Most importantly the guys and girls in PACT have a very similar attitude to us in how they play games and plan to enjoy Star Citizen. They have a mature attitude and are looking to play fair and make the game as much fun for themselves and for the rest of the Star Citizen community as possible. This fits perfectly with our own community ethos and standards.

We have applied for membership to PACT which turns out to be no easy thing to achieve. We’ve filled out an extensive questionnaire, Tealeaf in the role of dMw Ambassador has had a lengthy email exchange with PACT’s leaders. Finally TL and I spent an hour on TS being grilled by a dozen current members of PACT. I’m happy to say we were unanimously accepted by PACT. PACT is a very democratic group and so we now sit on their board and have a full equal vote in PACT activities (there are 10 signatories and each organisation has one vote).

Membership of PACT will provide us with some powerful allies and trading partners right from the beginning of our Star Citizen journey. Some of the larger PACT organisations plan on carving out territories in ‘zero’ space. We will benefit from safe passage through these systems. Other benefits include:

• Trading rights and agreements with other PACT organisations.
• Mutual protection given and provided anywhere in the Star Citizen universe.
• Large scale joint operations providing the ability for our smaller Org to take part in much larger events, battles etc than we could achieve on our own.
• Opportunities to joint crew ships.
• Access to player owned space stations/facilities
• Assistance building and protecting our own facilities etc.
• Membership of the PACT board allowing us to be part of the decision making process within PACT and allowing us an equal ability to influence and shape the community going forward.
• Players across multiple timezones.

However membership of PACT does come with some requirements:

Firstly and fore mostly ‘No Piracy’. This is a core part of the PACT agreement. Piracy, ganking, griefing etc are not allowed. Membership of subsidiary organisations that either engage in or support piracy is not allowed.

Second we need to look out for other PACT members. Obviously if we expect the rest of PACT to come help us if we get into trouble we need to provide that assistance ourselves. So if we see PACT members in trouble we’re duty bound to come to their assistance. We don’t have to go on a suicide run and lose our ship in a futile effort to save a PACT comrade but if we can help and make a difference we should.

Third we will be asked to participate in larger PACT operations. While there will be no mandatory ‘you must attend or else’ nonsense, we do need to be active and to get involved with the planning and execution of missions, ops or attacks etc. This larger scale activity is going to be an amazing part of Star Citizen (according to Chris Roberts) and so we’re obviously not going to miss out on this kind of game content.

So membership of PACT does come with some conditions. However they are actually the same conditions that we apply to our own dMw members. We have never supported griefing in any form in any of the games we play. Therefore there are no real additional restrictions on game play through membership of PACT, just lots of benefits.

TL DR
We’ve joined the PACT initiative which gives us membership of a large and powerful collective of organisations and which opens up all kinds of new possibilities and options for us in the Star Citizen universe. PACT membership has conditions which we will be mandatory for anyone wishing to be in the dMw organisation. No piracy of any kind, no exceptions. No attacking of PACT members ever, no matter what.

Non compliance

If you don’t want to be part of PACT and play to their and more importantly our standards, then that’s absolutely fine, just go enjoy the game somewhere else.

Of course some dMw community members might want to play Star Citizen as a pirate. You buy the game, you buy your own PC and so clearly we can’t start dictating to you how you play your games. However we can dictate how they are played in the dMw community and as part of the dMw organisation (and always have done since the days of early Counter-Strike). So if you are planning on being a pirate then have fun and good luck, you’re just not going to be doing it as part of the Star Citizen dMw organisation.

Appendix:

You can find out more about PACT here: https://www.pact-sc.org

Current PACT signatory organisations are:

• Imperium (IMPERIUM)
  
• Systems United Navy (SUN)
  
• Eternal Vigilance (ETERNAL)
  
• Association of Capitalists, Explorers and Soldiers (ACES)
  
• Terran Colonial Forces (TCFORCES)
  
• The 19th Corporation (THE19TH)
  
• PMC Quasar (QUASAR)
  
• Tactical Advance (TADVANCE)
  
• Intergalactic Trading Corporation (ITE or IEMPIRE)
  
• Dead Men Walking (DMW)
  

[Tutonic]

I for one welcome our new benevolent overlord.

[BrotherTobious]

All Hail Smilo All hail Smilo

Great work guys

[TeaLeaf]

Bloomin' marvellous. :thumbsup:

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A mutual defence PACT with 7,000 members.    That's a lot of coop we can get involved with!

[sulky_uk]

all hail smilo :clap:

right wheres me cheaque?


Joking aside im up for this

[Liberator]

Nice one Don Smilo.

Not much in for piracy myself, but I suppose there is nothing to stop someone having a second character account to go and be naughty outside of the fleet.

Just remember to remove the eye patch and cage the parrot before you put the -=[dMw]=- onesie on and step into your fleet character.

[RogueTaylor]

well done smilo, it will be a pleasure to have you as the admiral to the fleet and to be able to work under your command. clearly you didn't search very long but hay you do well in armour and will happy lend my ships to you and fight for you.

That brilliant news about dmw getting involved with a clan like that, it should mean for some better gameplay and getting the best out of the star citizen universe as a whole. lets just all hope everyone can trust each other else could be in for a very interesting time. i have no interest in becoming a bandit of space , so you can have confidence in that ( even tho i am new and probably got no trust yet :narnar: ) all i am looking for is a great game and to work with some great guys and girls, and am more then happy to fill any role (..depending) if it helps the team as a hole

[JonnyAppleSeed]

So your telling me that I need to return my doubloons, peg-leg and eye patch ... That be fine mi heartys!, You have struck a fair accord Yarrr! (sometimes it so hard to let go)

[Sn00ks]

Thank you Sir!, Please may I have another?

[Galatoni]

Awesome. This is excellent news. All hail might smilo. May his sabre-tipped fangs never block his pint.

[albert]

+1 for Smilo and PACT..... good move !

[Gone_Away]

well done guys. Congrats Smilo

[Jamoe]

Well done, seems a lot of effort was put into this. I hope it works out.

[Gorion]

I'm all up for playing with other communities sharing our ethos.

Good Job.

[Sparko]

nice one guys

congrats Smilo