<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157975.msg7572063#msg7572063">Quote from: TheGlyphstone on 20-01-2013, 18:20:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Perkins paying the bills isn't an excuse to screw up like this, and the Pillager isn't like blaming Churchill for Nazis, it's like blaming Churchill for being able to arrange a sneak attack by the French Resistance without knowing that the Nazis have a tank brigade stationed in that town, while the Resistance are wearing stolen Nazi uniforms and the attacking Allied troops aren't told about the resistance troops. Having a bad memory makes sense, but it's also not a trait of someone you want in command.<br/><br/>I know you like Perkins OOC, but he's making himself intolerable to all the characters IC through his attitude and his mistakes. If you want us to like him, humanize him, cut out his ego, have him own up to screwing up. Just telling us 'hes a cool dude, trust me' OOC doesn't work. You said he was the CO, but all we see IC is an asshole who screws up and blames us for it, with Walter's lips firmly glued to the seat of his pants, which makes us dislike him OOC as well.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Again he's not in command, Walter and Erich is. Again, he is not responsible for the intel being faulty, he just bought it. All he does is pay the bills and direct the DropShip crew. Of course I like his character, I created the damn thing. And unless anyone takes the time to discover his human side, he'll continue to keep up his facade because of reasons you have yet to discover. He has yet to give you an order IC, so why blame him for it OOC? All I see is someone saying "It's Perkins fault!" and suddenly everyone jumps on the bandwagon because of reasons that are pretty much fabricated out of thin air. Is he an asshole, most definitively! Is he to blame for every single thing that has gone wrong, not at all. Not to mention that most of all this is not to be blamed on anything IC but on me, the GM, because I screwed up, tried to fix it and fucked it up even more.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157975.msg7572145#msg7572145">Quote from: Phaia on 20-01-2013, 18:42:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">thank you Glyphstone, that is the impression I have gotten from reading the entire thread. Perkins goes off and does evaluations of the mission and he isnt the commander, he decides who gets docked , not the unit commander. My impression was that perkins ran things and it has been noted that perkins has been doing this for sometime since it seems the veterans are used to him doing evaluations and deciding who gets paid what. That makes him the CO, from my view point!...you want a unit that trusts their leaders...decide who that is and then go from there!!<br/><br/>Phaia<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Again, not the whole perspective. So far no one has been docked. Should that arise, it's not up to Perkins to decide that, but him being the sole investor his words and opinions weigh in just as much as Erich's when Walter has to take that decision. It doesn't mean Walter will boot anyone that Perkins tells him to boot, it means Walter listens to both Perkins and Erich once it becomes an issue. As for him setting the payrolls, of course, he's the paymaster, he cracks the numbers because he has many years of experience and the know-how. He knows all the pay-rates because he has always been trusted with that job.<br/><br/><br/>The only way I see to make amends here is to remove the thing that you all hate so damn much. I am not having a good time with these discussions, neither are you. So if you want me to boot Perkins out of the picture and put him on a planet somewhere where he can overlook the finances from afar, just tell me and he's gone. But I frankly don't think that will solve the issue, but if I have to do it to get some peace of mind, then I will.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157975.msg7572179#msg7572179">Quote from: Sel Nar on 20-01-2013, 18:56:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh; for those of you who want a bit of extra information as to how a 'mech and all its disparate, arcane, and otherwise generally unknowable parts work, Here's an in-universe Essay that explains the vast majority of how a 'mech works, from its skeleton on through to the armour, the reactor, how heat sinks actually work, and the urban legend of 'stackpoling'<br/><br/>http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Essay:_BattleMech_Technology (http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Essay:_BattleMech_Technology)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I haven't seen that one before, I'll certainly will look into it once I am done with this.