<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=112975.msg5047563#msg5047563">Quote from: Isengrad on 10-08-2011, 15:47:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Phantom, you are over thinking this way to much. Here's the deal... Look at your resources.. if you have a planner on your team a little bit of research could go a long way. Assume that generally the league and the Order know of each other.. they have battled before. If you want a certain Arch nemesis.. for fuck sake contact the person and ask.<br/><br/>Catalyst is How you know, you have a soothsayer among you... however you have no truly tech savy people so building a blocker might be to far a stretch. Or if you dont want to go that route Lady onyx is a City official, that means that's how the order secures funds(and was able to afford the Space station Hq in geosynchronous orbit as well as the linked Transporter pads). The Mayor and the order Might be unaware of the importance of the scarab.. which is why its being put on display. Still with such a gathering of the Cities VIP's and the opening display of a priceless artifact the order could be requested to Be there in case of league activity. <br/><br/>So, In short. Calm the fuck down and take a look at what you have to work with, contact those who have not posted to let them know and if all else fails drop a line to Nile to express your misgivings in a way that does not sound sarcastic or frustrated.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>1.  Don't tell me to "calm the fuck down."  I am calm.<br/><br/>2.  You and I, as players, do not have the same problem, because the GM is 'sort of' GMing the League, whereas<strong>no one</strong>is GMing the Order.  The expectations set out before you are clearer and more definite than the expectations set before us.  You aren't 'correcting' or 'helping' us by responding in this manner.<br/><br/>3.  There is an inherent problem which I feel is justifiable and should be addressed, and that you seem<em>to not get</em>:  this is a system game, and a system game requires an arbiter, even for planning stages.  No one in the Order is on the same page right now because there is NO direction.<br/><br/>4.  To further pontificate on the NO DIRECTION topic:  one player thinks that it's morning, one player thinks that it's night, while I started the game thinking that there's some daylight on the West Coast.  Minor, right?  But notice how it's been two weeks and the Order's thread hasn't taken off.  There's a reason.  No one knows what to do.<br/><br/>5.  I love how you mention Catalyst as being the guy that lets us know what's up.  He's only posted once, and didn't inform anyone in OOC that he was waiting for an opportunity to interrupt the meeting with a vision.  I mean, it's nice and mysterious and all, and I wonder what it is, but how would it be in any way pertinent to the matter at hand?  The team is having a meeting about a security detail in Ursa City for the Rubric Scarab gala already, expecting it to be a prime target.  What's he going to do?  Post two weeks from now, just at the right moment, that 'yes, the Gala is going to be attacked'?  What is this?  Example #3 of how none of us are on the same page?<br/><br/>6.  There is something else that's bothering me about the game, but I don't really know how to articulate it very well:  I think that it's too divided to be a community game, and I feel it's too biased to be a competitive game.