Hi mods! Ellie and Laura here again (also adding that I helped with all the above replies xx)
Thank you again for more clarity and for attempting to understand our position, as players who only see a smidge of what you have before you. We appreciate the further detail on Gaby’s role in this, the state of missions, and for taking the time to try to and unpick some of the steps to take for the New Morningstar org.
Apologies if it seemed like we hadn't read or reviewed your replies: We can assure you we had our threads with you open for this conversation, and have been referring back repeatedly for each topic. Any repetition in questions was because it seemed like the answers had changed, so we're glad to hear the initial reply is still the core document, so to speak. We're grateful for clarificationall fronts, and, again, we recognise not enough IC time has passed. We mentioned the work in progress on the IC end to ensure we're on the same page, not to ask for a fast pass (and we're sorry if that wasn't clear). We feel we have solid grasp of how plotting works in this game (and enjoy it!), and we completely understand that not all roads lead to immediate wins — or any win at all. We're alright with what you call "friction" as for us, asking questions about how or why something is unfeasible now or later and following up on anything you've given us is just a means of seeking a new way of phrasing or further details. To that end, your words explaining that neither us nor Tifa's efforts are impossible is useful, but we still have questions. SO THANKS WE PROMISE WE'RE STILL KEEN & SORRY WE KEEP GOING LONG MODS
Quickly, just because I believe you missed this out of your reply: We’re happy to handwave the NPC safehouse for a small abandoned restaurant/bar in the underground with enough space for training or a nearby warehouse or natural cave in which to train agents. Does that suit? We really want this to be up and running for everyone as soon as possible, so please do let us know if the mid-November timeline is feasible for any basic location.
Now, this ties into all of our previous correspondence as useful jumping off point, what do you mean by they can "open up the opportunity for native/NPC recruitment within New Amsterdam once the new chapter is up and running"?
With up and running, Ellie and I thought you meant once the efforts were well underway, but this does seem to suggest we're skipping steps in the process, and you want the new Morningstar to be at a certain stage or have a specific window of IC time in mind for things to stablise before recruitment (or something like a potential HQ — not the theatre, we understand you don't think the space suits at any size, and we have discarded it accordingly — but a future tbd space). “Up and running” could just be functioning as we thought, or it could mean “fully organised” so we're checking in again to be sure we're on the right track:
Do you mean the safehouse? Do you mean the re-ignited contacts and agents?
Do you mean the handwaved efforts and, therefore, the IC time you've emphasised throughout this reply?
In the event of the latter, do you mean we need to wait an IC month or 2? 3 months? 6? We realise that over here in reality, it would take this long or much, much longer to accomplish, but with the calendar as you’ve set it, that can push us to six months or more on this (putting us at up to a year on this plot), and that is something we will admit to finding frustrating. As someone who has been in game for a year and makes every effort to keep track of the calendar and realistic developments alongside it, it's near impossible to do on the truncated timescale you've created. Fortunately, our pretend fun times and super-special genius secret agent sci-fi and fantasy etc PC knowledge base means there's some fluidity on what's realistic, so any clarity you can provide on the timescale here would be of great use as a measuring stick for us moving forward.
Even though we perceive the IC timeline as unwieldy, we're still bloody game for anything and keen on this plot in all its forms — so please don't take that consideration/criticism of an aspect of plotting I find problematic for this endeavor as a lack of enthusiasm for the whole of it, regardless of your answer.
Again, to be clear, we do not want to skip the rebuild stage or push for unrealistic IC developments, but we do want to know where we stand currently (which you've helped clarify already; thank you) and now how to get from point A to point B (as well as how long that trip takes in IC and real-time).
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Thank you again for more clarity and for attempting to understand our position, as players who only see a smidge of what you have before you. We appreciate the further detail on Gaby’s role in this, the state of missions, and for taking the time to try to and unpick some of the steps to take for the New Morningstar org.
Apologies if it seemed like we hadn't read or reviewed your replies: We can assure you we had our threads with you open for this conversation, and have been referring back repeatedly for each topic. Any repetition in questions was because it seemed like the answers had changed, so we're glad to hear the initial reply is still the core document, so to speak. We're grateful for clarificationall fronts, and, again, we recognise not enough IC time has passed. We mentioned the work in progress on the IC end to ensure we're on the same page, not to ask for a fast pass (and we're sorry if that wasn't clear). We feel we have solid grasp of how plotting works in this game (and enjoy it!), and we completely understand that not all roads lead to immediate wins — or any win at all. We're alright with what you call "friction" as for us, asking questions about how or why something is unfeasible now or later and following up on anything you've given us is just a means of seeking a new way of phrasing or further details. To that end, your words explaining that neither us nor Tifa's efforts are impossible is useful, but we still have questions. SO THANKS WE PROMISE WE'RE STILL KEEN & SORRY WE KEEP GOING LONG MODS
Quickly, just because I believe you missed this out of your reply: We’re happy to handwave the NPC safehouse for a small abandoned restaurant/bar in the underground with enough space for training or a nearby warehouse or natural cave in which to train agents. Does that suit? We really want this to be up and running for everyone as soon as possible, so please do let us know if the mid-November timeline is feasible for any basic location.
Now, this ties into all of our previous correspondence as useful jumping off point, what do you mean by they can "open up the opportunity for native/NPC recruitment within New Amsterdam once the new chapter is up and running"?
With up and running, Ellie and I thought you meant once the efforts were well underway, but this does seem to suggest we're skipping steps in the process, and you want the new Morningstar to be at a certain stage or have a specific window of IC time in mind for things to stablise before recruitment (or something like a potential HQ — not the theatre, we understand you don't think the space suits at any size, and we have discarded it accordingly — but a future tbd space). “Up and running” could just be functioning as we thought, or it could mean “fully organised” so we're checking in again to be sure we're on the right track:
Do you mean the safehouse? Do you mean the re-ignited contacts and agents?
Do you mean the handwaved efforts and, therefore, the IC time you've emphasised throughout this reply?
In the event of the latter, do you mean we need to wait an IC month or 2? 3 months? 6? We realise that over here in reality, it would take this long or much, much longer to accomplish, but with the calendar as you’ve set it, that can push us to six months or more on this (putting us at up to a year on this plot), and that is something we will admit to finding frustrating. As someone who has been in game for a year and makes every effort to keep track of the calendar and realistic developments alongside it, it's near impossible to do on the truncated timescale you've created. Fortunately, our pretend fun times and super-special genius secret agent sci-fi and fantasy etc PC knowledge base means there's some fluidity on what's realistic, so any clarity you can provide on the timescale here would be of great use as a measuring stick for us moving forward.
Even though we perceive the IC timeline as unwieldy, we're still bloody game for anything and keen on this plot in all its forms — so please don't take that consideration/criticism of an aspect of plotting I find problematic for this endeavor as a lack of enthusiasm for the whole of it, regardless of your answer.
Again, to be clear, we do not want to skip the rebuild stage or push for unrealistic IC developments, but we do want to know where we stand currently (which you've helped clarify already; thank you) and now how to get from point A to point B (as well as how long that trip takes in IC and real-time).
Thanks for the help!