Colossal Re-Imagining

[Padre Romero]

As you all well know, I'm a stats junkie, I love watching how the Urban Dead stats change, and I especially love seeing how we can change those stats. The NMC has personally thrown the city out of zombie hands twice, our glorious yagton-to-caiger quests of last year being my favorite month-or-so of online gaming.

The disturbing importance this "Real life" crap has had in influencing my gameplay is astounding. I haven't RP-ed genuinely for about 3 months, I haven't masterminded any specific operations for almost a year...my own angels aren't even a listed group anymore, and the numbers of multiple NMC groups are lower than they should be...
Fortunately, now that I've gotten my epic 50 page toxicology paper over and done with, I have time to throw myself into this again full time.
I for one think we need to sound the news conch (sp) shell and re-assemble the forces for a threefold attempt to once again swing this city out of zombie hands!

Here's what we need:

A Continued Lack of Discipline: For as long as I've played with the NMC, we've done what we want, when we want, and we've never considered any turf our home or any player our "commander"...this will not, and should not change.

A Massive Recruiting Drive: We need more players, and specifically, more active ones. If anyone has any grandiose Ideas, please submit them here. I have a few ideas of my own to institute, but In game recruiting can't work unless we get large groups of players at in a safe place...which won't happen until we

Re-institute the mission system: This has worked twice in the past...if a good cadre of players can agree to participate in combat once a week, if this same group can pick appropriate targets to take and hold, and if we give the missions suitably cool names, they just might work.


What are your thoughts

[Ron Burgundy]

Good stuff, Padre! We also need is renewed vigor and new ideas. I've been busy as hell, too- helping the folks move in New Hampshire took about 10 times as long as I thought (I'm back, though!) and law school research etc is pretty hefty work. God knows how much free time I'm going to have come September.

Where's the fighting, right about now? I need to update the News Team wiki very, very badly. :/

[Rockby Quickfoot]

From what I can tell, fighting is everywhere. Zombies are just marching and killing. South Blythville and Lockettside just got captured recently. Shearbank is half reclaimed from the horde with people fighting there, though I'm told their situation is deteriorating.

Reclamation is going on in the northeast as folks try to reclaim suburbs. There's also fighting in Dunnell Hills if I remember right as the PD tries to stake their land back. Creedy was down when I passed it a few days ago, so I'm assuming the survivors of that fort are attempting to retake it.

I'm currently in the Northeast with the Rangers on the reclamation project in Santlerville and Heytown. I don't have any grand recruiting ideas, but I'm more than willing to help enact whatever you guys can come up with.

[Redwave]

Mission ideas you say?

We're undertaking the Second Great Cleansing of Yagoton. Which is now a one way suicide mission because we were kind of counting on Stickling Mall to re-arm.

[Rockby Quickfoot]

Use Dowdney Mall to re-arm/retreat to. It's powered with a significant survivor presence, as are Halls, Dewes, and even Usher NT over in Heytown. The Rangers are also already in the area.

It's a bit farther from Yagoton than Stickling, but at least it's still standing.

[Lord Wulfgar]

Mar 9, 2008 15:42:19 GMT -5 Redwave said:

We're undertaking the Second Great Cleansing of Yagoton. Which is now a one way suicide mission because we were kind of counting on Stickling Mall to re-arm.

Stickling Mall is holding, all four corners are in survivor hands. At the moment the SW corner has 9 zeds inside though.

Don't give up on Stickling, have your men move down and help out.



As for this thread topic I'd love to see the NMC come back together and kick some ass, we've been falling apart lately. Although I can't say that I have any grand ideas of my own to present at the moment.

But like Rockby said the Rangers are in the NE reclaiming ruined land, it's a better use of our time then diving into the sea of red on a suicide run at the moment. No matter how fun that may be.

Any other NMC types are welcome to join us.

[asshole doctor™]

fuck yeah the boys are back in town!!

[Rockby Quickfoot]

Guess who just got back today
Them wild-eyed boys that had been away
Haven't changed, haven't much to say
But man I still think them cats are great
They were askin if you were around
How you was, where you could found
Told them you were living downtown
Driving all the old men crazy

That's enough of that >.>

As of this time, Stickling is still up. The bottom right corner was a bit low on barricades, so I took the liberty of restoring them. Looks like we might stand a chance of holding. All four corners are powered. At a quick glance I noticed several other members of the News Team.

[ian]

The best idea i can think of for new, active recruits is to poach from other games/forums. We could have a great big battle and gain recruits from it... but we need new recruits to stage a great big battle.

Seducing a new group to join the NMC would help temporarily, the old groups have been slowly merging for along time with most players lone wolfing. (I would play but im still hooked on call of duty 4)

[Rockby Quickfoot]

I think one thing the NMC should definitely do is join up with the folks on the Beerhah.com. It looks like ig might actually be worthwhile in the end; maybe with our help, we can guide it there.