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quote:Originally posted by Charles Lindsey: #2 Interesting #3 Require? Doubt that would work. Combine 2 & 3 and make an apprentice program? Theres a thought. I came up with exactly that _after_ I replied to your post. quote: Hitch a ride? several traders could pool resources and pay one merc. That's interesting. They could. Another reason to be a member quote: Just my opinions. Can't wait to get in there and see if any of this will even work. That makes two of us [ 10-13-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]

quote:Originally posted by TRD: How would a diplomat work within Intercorp? Would they work? Would the diplomats be involved in internal issues, such as negotiations with the individual branches and divisions? Also would they be diplomats for Intercorp as an organisation or for whoever wants to hire them? Maybe both? First a short explanation of Intercorp: Intercorp exists of a number of divisions that all have a director. These directors form the Board of Directors. All strategic decisions are dealt with there. As a director you would be part of it but I do not think you would take on the role of diplomat there. You would probably looking after the interests of intercorp and those of you division in particular. There is a need for diplomats on the member level though. We've got mercs, assassins and traders as member so there are bound to be problems to resolve between them (especially between members of different castes). Currently we have 3 divisions. Trader (Commodity Inc.), merc (Guns for Hire Inc.) and a still to be reveiled one (Branch B, D Division). In other words, enough there for a diplomat to make himself useful. About being hired by intercorp or others? I think both. Also see my reply in the 'Just checking' thread.

quote:Originally posted by TRD: If I was to be a director, would I then still be a diplomat for hire or would I be the diplomat for Intercorp? Until there are more diplomats I guess I could do both. [ 10-13-2001: Message edited by: TRD ] In my view you would be an diplomat that is affiliated with intercorp. As such you can hire your services to anyone who needs them. You pay the division a fee (4%). As director (now this is the nice part) you decide what to do with that money. The other 96% is yours. However, you would be required to structure your division. The better you get it organised, the more people are likely to join it. As director you are responsible for the other 'intercorp' members. If things go wrong you are required to take the necesaiy steps to solve the matter (like hiring mercs to rescue someone) [ 10-13-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]

quote:Originally posted by Charles Lindsey: Back to prices. Should the new guy be charged 80,000 creds for a run when he can't think of anything else but buying stock with his starting capital? That's a hard one. But my opinion: 1. The guy can do Galcom - Genesis to make his first cash. Unprotected, so that would not cost him anything. Once he as his first few million or so, he would be able to affort an escort (I figured about 5 Mcreds suffices to pay for a merc and still make some profit). 2. Intercorp would be willing to invest in the guy by paying a merc to escort him. That would cost a bit, but later on in the game the player would more than compensate for that (he's paying 4% for each business deal) 3. More experienced members are required to help new guys (teach them the basics). The new guy could 'hitch' a ride by joining a more experienced trader that has paid for an escort. The new guy could pay a small proportion for the protection (like 10 Kcreds or so).

quote:Originally posted by TRD: What would that involve? Payrise maybe? Read the charter of intercorp (here). Its all about providing a place where you can easily get in contact with other members (traders, mercenaries, assassins, etc). For example to get an excort when you are traveling from place to place or hire an assassin to get rid of a rival diplomat or raider that is _really_ harrasing you. Moreover, as director you get a share of all business deals in the diplomat division. Not very interesting if there is only one member (you), but as time goes by and if you are able to attract other diplomat members you will get 4% of all their business deals. Or you can become a member so that you can get these deals for a reasonable price. Or you can stay an indie (not intercorp related). But then you pay a bundle for our services

quote:Originally posted by TRD: A diplomat I shall be, making all that money was very tempting though. I noticed that most are Terran, is there a reason for that, or just down to prefference? Can I pick any race? Also, Ive lost my v1 manual which of the races have cybernetic implants? [ 10-12-2001: Message edited by: TRD ] You can download the documentation and appendixes here On another note: would you be interested, as a diplomat, to found a new diplomat division? Intercorp Unlimited is still looking for directors

[RP] UCV Balmung Location: Leaving Polaris 2 23:50 ‘We’re set to go’ Aloia told Riga. ‘What course do I plot?’ ‘Good question. You did not get a proper fix on that transmission so we’re kind of in the dark. I did see the GCV-Eliminator rush away at just about the same time we received that message. Bet you that we will not be far off if we follow her.’ Aloia puched in the coordinates and engaged the engines which caused the ship to tremble shortly. The past two hours were well spent. They loaded medical supplies, nutripacks, repair items and a selection of weapons. An excursion to the Gammulan border never ever was a picknick, so better safe than sorry. Usually the Gammulans were not aggressive towards traders, but the closer to they borders, the more aggressive they tended to get. He never been into Gammulan space before, and frankly he didn’t desire to do so either. ‘The signal is getting stronger, but it seems to be encrypted or at least very garbled’. ‘Hmm, how far still?’ Riga asked. ‘Well, hard to tell. Still can’t get a fix so I cannot really compute a distance. All I have is a heading’. ‘How about the Eliminator?’ ‘Still on the same course. Seems to be heading for the source of the signal as well’. ‘Wonder if they are just reacting on a distress call, or if we’re about to be drawn into some secret mission that miserably went wrong.’ Riga thought. [/RP] Well, at least I'm on my way.

Just send you an email. Should have arrived by the time you read this. Other than that I cannot help you, I'm not an Outlook export

quote:Originally posted by Rico Jansen: I don't know how far your negotiations with Wraith and Orion are comming along, but I have been assigned as Primefleet contactperson towards commercial indie organisations. Meaning that if you are interested, we can initiate exploratory talks about acces to Prime's stations and/or usage of our public communication channels (www.primefleet.com). If Intercorp is interrested, open commlink channel to [email protected]. Heh, he seem to become a Commodity for the fleets Before we can start any serious talk I first want to see some concrete conclusions in the Economics 101 thread. Based on that negotiatoins can begin with Orion, Wraith and Prime (no no particular order ) I will start that shortly. Got a bit preoccupied with the RP. Anyway, we're interested! quote: BTW, you would think Intercorp has a email adress public for interested clients. But I have yet to find it on the homepage. (nudge, nudge)[/QB] I'm working on that. meanwhile you can post to the address in the Battlecruiser Webring box at the bottom (where is says owned by Riga.

quote:Originally posted by TRD: I was thinking of being a Diplomat, but there arent any others. If not that, then definately a Trader. If you really want to be a diplomat, then that's no problem, even without other diplomats around. Currently only 2 traders are registered in the fleet's database, of which only one is currently active (me). Dunno about the other. Heh, but both you and Baloogan are considering to become trader as well. quote: Is Oct 15 a cut off point/release date or something? Oct 15 is the official release date for BCM. Per orders of SC the registration in the fleet database will then be closed until the multiplayer patch will be released. As far as I know, you can only get access to the official MP servers if you are registered in the fleet database.

This will bridge the gap between Oct 31st and Nov 2nd. My next post will be on Nov 2nd as well. [RP] Stardate: October 31, 3020 Spacial Coordinates: Polaris 1. Location: UCV Balmung Riga was looking Aloia straight into the eyes. He shook himself to the here and present and started to think clear again. Running to his chair he shouted ‘Lock the doors. Make sure that nobody gets through’. Aloia started to move towards the door panels while he reached his seat. Taking a quick glance to his display he started to plan his next move. The situation was bad, but maybe not hopeless yet. ‘Where are they’ Aloia demanded. ‘Just leaving the turbo lift, heading towards the bridge’. ‘Any ideas?’ ‘Working on it’ Riga replied grimly and started to push some buttons on his console. ‘Controls are jammed at the console at the engine room. Dunno how, but they knew what they were doing. Hold on… They’re not moving anymore’. ‘Where are the environmental controls?, the leader demanded. ‘Round the corner, on the left wall’, the assassin replied. He had scouted the area when he first went to the personnels quarters to assassin the crew. He had spent quite a bit of time on these type of vessels and allthough this was the newer type it was easy enough for him to find his way around. ‘Then get along with it’ the leader ordered. ‘First squad, come with me, second squad, get to the engine room and stand by for my signal’. The assassin walked over to the environmental controls and took a small gas cilinder from his backpack. He quickly removed the covering wall panel and screwed the cilinder in the hole that was now exposed. A hissing sound reveiled that its contents was inserted into the main ventilation shafts. ‘Put on your masks’ he said to the soldier that was standing next to him. The soldier dutifully repeated it in his communicator. ‘What do you think they want?’ Aloia asked Riga. ‘Dunno, we not transporting anything valuable, and this is no ordinary raid. It’s planned … too careful for that.’ Aloia had trouble thinking. Everything seemed to happen more slowly now. Riga sat down in his chair and started to feel tired as well. ‘Can’t be because of the … cargo and we are not … that important. The corporation had … redundant …’. Riga took a look at Aloia, who slowly slided onto the floor. ‘Gas …’ Riga thought before he passed out. ‘Get that torch over here’, the leader mumbled as he reached the door that lead to the bridge, his voice sounding strange because of his mask. ‘Open it up!’ Ten minutes later the UCV Balmung was floating through space, empty. Even the dead crewmen were gone. [/RP] The UCV Balmung is ready to be found in about 2 days time . Be careful with it... Demolition: You'd better be in time to reach the UCV Rising Sun, I do want to be rescued [ 10-11-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]

TRD: Before I forget, if you choose a race and caste, you also might want to choose an asset and a launch base. You can also find logos here You can use these in your signature if you choose to use one. Look at mine for an example of its format.

quote:Originally posted by TRD: How do I become a UCV commander? Welcome to our Indie corner here TRD. If you like to be an UCV Commander, then all you have to do is what Fendi wrote. Once you make a choice, you can register in the fleet database. Make sure to do that before Oct 15. If you want to take it a step further then you can have a look at Intercorp Unlimited in the Organisation thread. We are interested in both members and staff (e.g. directors). Becoming a member might benefit you in multiplayer (coming soon). If you want to be more involved in structuring Intercorp, then you can apply for directorship. Currently we have 3 directors, just ask us if you're interested (Jeffery or me, the 3rd director is still anonymous). The indie way..., the way to go (hehe, couldn't resist) quote:Originally posted by Fendi: The assassin leader is unknown at the momment. Ask Jeff or Riga. We're talking to several people to fill in these positions. We have one confirmed director, but its division is still classified, so I cannot deny or confirm that there is an assassin leader. Sorry Fendi, nice try to find out, but I won't bite [ 10-11-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]

Moved from the rp thread: I'm in Holland (GMT + 1). Just as reference, it's 11:45 AM localtime at the moment EDIT: Is it a good idea to take this non rp stuff to a new topic Bad Day! (non-rp)?

quote:Originally posted by Fendi: Hehe I can't imagine what it will be like to commandeer a Space station. All that firepower but nah, I'll never get one as I ain't a fleet leader. But this is BCM and anything can happen right? All that firepower? Your an assassin, ever heard about _stealth_ ?

quote:demolition wrote There is a problem with your post Prime fleet has control of Velari in Polaris-2 More specifically my Epsilon Wing is stationed there huh? my posts are in polaris-1, not in polaris-2. It all happens on the other side of the wormhole. Or did you mean something else? Let me know.

[RP] Stardate: October 31, 3020 Spacial Coordinates: Polaris 1. Location: UCV Balmung ‘Where’s everybody?’ Riga asked Aloia. ‘Targis and Vaqghin are in their quarters. Dunno about Adam.’ she replied shortly looking up from her instruments. ‘Their systems are set to automatic, but not much to do anyway. Not without any raiders in sight’. ‘So, she noticed as well’ Riga thought. Normally there would be some activity in this area. Not that they usually paid any attention to the Balmung but it was strange nonetheless. Adam was working on the main entry door in the cargo bay. It was jamming since last Friday and he wanted it fixed. Not that he had to do it, but he was bored to death and had nothing better to do. Little did he know about the figure in the shadows that was silently coming his way and he would never know. His body silently slid onto the floor without any sound. ‘One down, two to go’ the figure in the shadows whispered as he walked towards the door. He opened the door panel, wired it again and locked the door behind him while he made sure that it would remain shut. Riga was looking at the Perscan display. ‘Strange, why would Adam go to the engine room?’ he wondered. The one minute warning that signaled the end of the hyper jump sounded and he directed his attention to the bridge again. ’30 seconds to end of hyper jump, 15, 10, 5, now’. The Balmung appeared 75 km from the wormhole to Polaris 1. ‘Another few minutes and we’re home again’ he though to himself. ‘Aloia, full ahead’. Aloia pressed some buttons on the console in front of her. ‘Hey, the engines do not respond’, she exclaimed in a surprised tone. ‘What?’ Riga responded and immediately started checking the console in front of him. ‘The engine is offline, what the…’ and he looked in surprise to her. ‘The engine has been taken offline by Adam and…, wait a sec, has been taken offline by Adam. Why the hell would he do such a thing’ so calmly stated. ‘Cool as ever’ Riga thought and pressed the button of the intercom. ‘Adam, what the hell do you think you’re doing?’ Adam did not respond. ‘Adam!’ ‘ADAM!’ He switched the display to Perscan. Adam was heading towards the personnel quarters. Adam’s location slowly changed from the corridor, to the turbolift and finally to the personnel quarters. Riga intensely watched the console as it reported status and location. Targis, status: dead. About thirty seconds later Vaqghin was reported dead as well. ‘NO!!!!’ Riga jumped out of his chair and ran toward the bridge’s door but was held by Aloia who jumped in front of him. ‘No, think, think goddamnit. There’s a killer out there, and I’m sure it’s not Adam.’ ‘I don’t care, he’s mine!’ ‘Listen to me!’ while she slapped him in the face. ‘Calm down, you gotta calm down!’ ‘NO, I will…’ ‘Intruder alert, Intruder alert’. The alert cleared Riga’s mind. ‘Check Perscan!’ ‘Cargo Bay 1, 8 intruders. Adam… or whoever is heading for the cargo bay as well. He’s in the turbolift right now.’ ‘Cut all power except here on the bridge, that will hold them a while. At least it will hold that murderer.’ ‘No dice, controls do not respond and I cannot override’. ‘Ok, where are they now?’ ‘Still in cargo bay 1, but they are on the move’. ‘How about evac?’ Riga asked, but he already knew the answer. ‘Cannot reach it without passing them and controls to the one here are jammed’. ‘Transporter room?’ ‘Offline’ The murderer reached the cargo bay door and took Adams communicator in his hands. No longer having use for it he tossed it away and started to disassemble the door panel. Once opened he reattached the wiring and opened the door. ‘Goodday Commander’ he said in a soft voice. ‘What’s your status?’ ‘Three intended targets are down. The two remaining are on or around the bridge. They cannot escape this vessel, all means of escape have been disabled’. ‘Right, well done. Ok people, lock and load…’ the leader shouted to the group of soldiers behind him and started heading toward the bridge. [/RP] So this thing is 2 days before you started (heh, I like flashbacks) but I will catch up shortly. You will not find me among those vandals anyway EDIT: changed raiders into soldiers. This way Jeffery and Demolition can decide what to encounter. [ 10-10-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]

Right, time to do my bit [RP] Stardate: October 31, 3020 Spacial Coordinates: Polaris 1. Location: UCV Balmung Riga was sitting in his chair, silently, gently stroking his hair. He sat in his quarters and held a book in his hand. Not that he was reading it, he just held it as if it were the most valuable thing that existed while he let his mind running free, remembering old times. 'Riga?', the intercom cracked at him with the usual distorted sound he had become accustomed to so much. 'Yeah Aloia, I know, I'm on my way' and he carefully put away the book he was still holding. The door silenty opened when he moved his hand over the doorpad. He stepped outside and started his way to the bridge. 'Funny that those raiders are this quiet. It's just not normal. Not even one vessel out, and we're not escorted this time'. Riga was really confused. Normally he was escorted, but he found that he could take the risk of trying to outrun them. Ever since Velari had been taken over by Prime fleet he had not very much to fear on the Polaris 2 side of the wormhole. 'Hiya, had a good one?' Aloia mumbled when he entered the bridge. 'Boah, not bad, didn't sleep though' he answered and took a quick look at the instruments. They were on autopilot. 'Anything while I was away?' 'Nah, except for some unexplained shaking, but of a very gentle kind. Might be some spacedust, dunno, whatever...'. Riga went to the food dispenser and got himself a coffee. 'What's the ETA for the wormhole?'. 'Well, about 2 more minutes I guess'. 'right, almost home' Riga though while he sat down in his command chair. Deep inside the the cargohold a hand was strugling with the ropes that held the cargo in place... [/RP] No more time, will continue shortly [ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]

quote:Originally posted by Charles Lindsey: My concerns if I were to be a trader, and I plan to be even though it's for a fleet, would be profit. You must take into account what it takes to make the run in the first place. Brand new ships (no longer limited to just BC's) are not very fuel efficient. You must calculate the radine usage per jump and the cost of "protection". If you can't make that run and still make a profit you might as well not make that run. The same would be true for the merc. If he can't make a profit on the run calculating fuel usage and possible damages he shouldn't agree to it either. Maybe the trader would risk a small run by hinself. Absolutely! Don't worry about the trader though, he will make a profit It's more about the merc and assassin. What is a reasonable price. In the example I posted earlier I took 18.000 for radine, plutonium, etc. Added 100.000 'salary'. Mercs can do the same. In an example I calculated at home I ended up paying the merc about 280 Kcreds. The costs were based on the EP 2 demo. I flew from the starting station to the wayfarer station, saw how much radine, plutonium, etc was used and calculated my costs based on that. Probably the payment would amount to some 500.000 credits for 'short' escorts. Longer will costs more . These amount should not be a problem for the trader at all (if he's smart anyway). About updates and repairs: It's part of life. Escort traders or assassin some 'no longer needed members of society' and build your capital with that. If something breaks down (or is shot off ) then use that capital to finance the repairs. He, in RL that's what part of my salary is used for, it's called savings.

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quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Nova: and the rest of the Intercorp team. We call him Director 3, Division D, B Branch or 3D-B for short.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: SIX pages?!? You guys must be pretty darn serious. LOL, this calls for another press release PRESS RELEASE (not) Six guys on the dole recently decided to band together and formed a corporation. The corporation was funded by selling bubblegum to underaged teanagers with a personality disorder. Local authorities were petitioned in order to get them recognized but failed since the building progress of their virtual world was not yet fully completed. Stubbornly they insisted and managed to write a six page letter of intent to the local deity, an entity purely made of energy. Confident in the future they continue their efforts. END PRESS RELEASE (not) (evil grin..., again)

[RP] UCV Balmung Location: Orbiting Velari Starstation 22:04 The small bridge of the UCV Balmung was only occupied by two persons, Riga Gerdis and Aloia Valzin. Riga had just entered and sat down as he casually looked over the instruments. 'What's up Al?', Riga asked looking over her shoulder at the view of the station out the window. 'Nothing much. Some distorted messages but I could not make out what or who, so I ignored them. Weak signal. Either damaged or very far away.' Riga just woke up and didn't want to be bothered, but his experience told him these were just the kind of messages that would earn him credits. He didn't like that part the most, for he felt that it was a kind of scavenging on the hurt or even the dead, but then... it meant hard cash. 'Still recieving those messages?' 'Yeah' 'Try to get a fix on them' 'Just a second', Aloia said, 'err, dunno about this one chief, it comes from somewhere near the Gammulan Border'. 'What?', Riga exclaimed?. 'Any signature?'. 'Well, I believe GCV, but I cannot be sure'. He stroke his chin pondering over what he just heard and noisily started to walk around the bridge. 'What do you think Al?', he finally asked. 'Go for it', she said with a broad smile. She wasn't afraid of anyone, no need even ask such questions. 'Ok, call the crew and plot a course. Oh, and prepare for everything. Ask docking clearance and let's start shopping first. Any chance to contact these guys?' 'Sure as hell not', she grinned and continued to tap the keyboard. 'The routine would only take 2 hours, then they would head for the nearest jumppoint to... yeah, to what...?' he thought to himself, but then started to take the actions required for their trip. [/RP] Ok, short and inexperienced, but I'll grow into it

quote:Originally posted by JJ: i know this is dumb what is BCTE..give a short rundown? Read this. Start reading at NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS, download the file (link provided) and enjoy.

quote:Originally posted by Baloogan: Hosting(2 gbz big enoufe?) and asping, i not good at doing anything else because of my evil spelling mistakes and most of my websites turn out like a database acess point... MY server is based at vancouver so my site is not that fast to people almost any where else... never tested it but... in vancover you can get 1.54 megs per second I plan to be a commertial or trader, or merk [ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: Baloogan ] I don't mind you hosting the site (I really would like to get rid of the current banners ). I was planning on getting the www . intercorp-unlimited . com domain. I can redirect that to any site or directory on that site, so that would be no problem. However, when I do that I need to cordinate things with Jaguar, since he maintains (or owns?) the webring. Just tried to download bestlinux.iso from you site. D'ld with about 10 Kb/s, but that's ok, fast enough for the current content of the intercorp site. 2 Gb? well, currently I'm well under 1 Mb, but things might change. The setup of the site however is clean and to the point. I would not like it to be too flashy (with an abundance of anims, etc). Well, you get the point. Also keeps the size of the site rather small The asp programming could come in handy though for scripting member requests, and whatnot. I myself do cgi/perl programming, but cannot do that on the server the site is on (not permitted). And your caste. Well, the difference between a commercial and a trader is that the commercial is in it for the money and the money alone. The trader is more involved in err... trading. He collects a lot of goods and sells them when there is demand. He might even trade goods for goods. The merc? Well, Jeffery & Co. already have enough members (sorry Jeffery, have to look after MY interests as well ). Trader/Commercial is much more fun (your eyelids are getting heavy, you feel very relaxed, you believe that you want to be a trader...) No, seriously, just think about it and let us know when you decide. EDIT: split url. does not exists yet [ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: Riga ]