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[GiglameshDespair]

Also isn't it also possible that Gig can provoke us into all taking initiative without being caught in probably-personal-affairs-for-too-long?

That is the aforementioned killing everyone, yes.
Post slowly at your peril.

[My Name is Immaterial]

So how many people are you going to be taking, Gig? When are you going to choose?

[GiglameshDespair]

I'll be taking 5-6 people, choosing reasonably soon - within the next day or so.

[Dwarmin]

Love you too Dwarmin

<3

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See, that's why we need a Captain tho. Hurricanes, terrorism, floods of poison fish-stuff happens, not everyone can post all the time. Relying on a freeform game with a 100% participation is not very wise. It'd be good to have one person (relatively stable) who can keep the ship moving no matter what. Because if the ship isn't moving, we're all hostages.

[Romans]

I concur and we can shift around who the captain is, if the group doesn't like how they're running things.

[Dwarmin]

Yeah, we shift them right out into the icy cold darkness of space...

[Romans]

Shhhhhhh, don't say that to loud no will volunteer themselves for tribute want to be captain.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Since I'm the only pilot, and thus, a bit irreplaceable, I'll volunteer.

[Romans]

How hard can it be to fly a spaceship eehh I have no objections because I don't want too :p.

[My Name is Immaterial]

you try and fly through an asteroid belt at full bern with elven raiders on your exhaust and then ask that question again m8

[Dwarmin]

The pilot doesn't have to be the Captain.

Also, no reason to volunteer for anything until we see who is/isn't going to be playing! It may be the crew will have to hire NPC's to plug in some spots.

[Romans]

Well i've a got a jar of dirt True lol lets find out first.

[Twinwolf]

Gigla, is my sheet alright?

PTW and making a sheet.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Jane Treston
Gender: Female
Race: Human
HP: 10

Skills:
Repairman: +2 to repairing objects and ships
Gunner: +2 to hit with ship weaponry

Starting gear:
Leathers: +2AC: 4p
Shortbow: 1d6, two handed: 2p
   20 arrows: 2p

Your special item:
Magi-tool: An engineering tool, that functions as several different commonly needed tools- and a few specialty tools- at once, changing it's shape to match the job. Adds a GM-determined bonus to engineering-related checks.
 
Description: A short woman- although not dwarf-short- with medium length, black hair and light brown eyes- although you can't see the latter under the goggles she's usually wearing. She has pale skin, due to usually being under the decks of ships rather than in the sunlight.

Backstory: Jane's lived in the ships and stations of the Scatter her whole life. Her father was a cargo ship captain, and her mother his first mate. Not a very formal ship. She was born in between docks, so she isn't technically a citizen of any particular nation of the Scatter. Being born and raised on a ship, she knows how they work, usually, and became a mechanic once she was old enough- and learned how to use the guns she so often had to repair- and became a fixture of the crew. Eventually the ship was retired with her father's death of a bad sickness. She had to take a job on a new ship. She met the Captain, got offered a job, and that was that.

[Mopsy]

I honestly think we need a chain of command to keep things flowing-free form games need strong direction. If we spend every turn waiting for everyone to vote on a destination, we're going to make everything run slow as sludge-one guy can hold us up for weeks, and if the discussion peters out no one might be willing to go ahead. I know, because I've tried this. It doesn't work. When we are on planet, people have latitude to do what they want-but overall decisions about the ship need to be left to just a few, active people. IMO. A Captain and a second in command, and not much more.

I have pretty strong feelings about this.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154786.75 <--take a look at what happened to my game where just less than half a dozen people had to decide on three or four ways forward. A spirited discussion, then it just ends and no one picks it up, because no one wants to make a choice. LOL. I should have killed them all by now...as gig will probably blow our ship up if we spend too much time floating in space waiting for Tiruin to post. Srry Tiru. :I

This game is going to have an infinite amount of ways forward. We NEED a Captain to chart our course-it'll be up to that persons personal IRL and OOC charisma, however, to ensure everyone is happy with these choices. Otherwise mutiny.

I'm not against OOC or IC discussion about strategy, either. But in the end we need to draft some unlucky person to actually make that final decision-to go ahead and move us forward, and allow Gig to advance the game.

Good point there. I'm sympathetic to your wish to not have the game hung up on lazy/distracted/vacillating players all the time. It's an important aspect of the leadership issue that I hadn't really considered. However, if your proposal is implemented, then I'd like to see the IC officers exercise restraint in the use of their authority, making unilateral strategic decisions only when no strong player majority emerges. Officers being fully in control during battles is not a problem for me.

[Tiruin]

Since I'm the only pilot, and thus, a bit irreplaceable, I'll volunteer.

Someone forgets that I'm also a pilot/navigator

Good point there. I'm sympathetic to your wish to not have the game hung up on lazy/distracted/vacillating players all the time. It's an important aspect of the leadership issue that I hadn't really considered. However, if your proposal is implemented, then I'd like to see the IC officers exercise restraint in the use of their authority, making unilateral strategic decisions only when no strong player majority emerges. Officers being fully in control during battles is not a problem for me.

If we keep it open to suggestion, maybe that also follows bonding moments between people if conflict arises and people juuuust have the right attitude in facing it.