Hutt Cartel Newsletter: 13th June, 2014

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[13TH​ JUNE, 2014]

Well hello there, champs!

You are reading the seventh Hutt Cartel Newsletter! You poor, poor thing. I know your eyes must bleed by now, but we thank you for your continued visits and loyalty to the Faction! So for those of you who haven't had the displeasure of reading a Cartel Newsletter, its a regular publication from the Hutt Cartel Leadership Team, which consists of Hutticane Matt, who is our Faction Leader (and fall guy). Gaja, our resident Serbian funny-guy and ideas man. Last, but most likely least, is me! Cassanova, and I'm our organisation system. Together we form an unlikely team, destined to make things fun, enjoyable and exciting for the members of the faction! However, when we fail to do that, we encourage and ask you to post your ideas in the Cartel Suggestions Thread.

Anyhow, let's get right into it!

[New Staff Member!]
I know I just said it was the three of us, but where's the fun in an announcement if I blip it early in the intro!?

Insoulent has kindly accepted our offer of him joining the ranks of the leadership team! He'll be joining Gaja and myself as an Assistant Faction Leader (AFL), and helping doing all sorts of magical things! His areas of responsibility will probably be "everything we don't want to do", because thats how we roll! I kid! I promise! The likelihood is that we won't define what Insoulent is responsible for until he settles in, so in the meantime, just continue with the 'contact' list from the last newsletter.

So, just be nice to Insoulent, as he's fluffy, and we like him, and we want to keep him around so we don't have to work as hard. Oh and yeah... welcome me in congratulating him! He definitely deserves it!

[Promotions]
During the last newsletter we pushed promotions, and even promised to publically [st]shame[/st] congratulate everyone... And thank god! Duke of Nuts applied for a promotion with his character Re'gi Alvanti, and we are very proud to announce his promotion from a Prospect all the way up to an Enforcer! Now he can do more things... like annoy us... and get paid more... and run businesses!

Now! As for the rest of you, keep in mind we do actually want your characters to move up through the ranks. Some time ago we had some feedback regarding promotions and the process - we've addressed many of them, but i suppose the question has to be; Are our guidelines too hard to meet? What are your thoughts on the matter?! This actually is a perfect segue into this next section!

We were told that there wasn't enough difference between the ranks... we fixed that. We were told that there wasn't enough reward for being promoted... so we are fixing that....

[Promotion Rewards]
Over the past few newsletters Matt and I have alluded to the upcoming announcement of a way we can 'sweeten the deal' for promotions. The system is actually written, we just have to wait on a few boxes to be ticked by the admins for us to share it publically. But what we can do, is give you a small teaser of what we're talking about.

Basically the plan is that, upon promotion, your character will be given the opportunity to select an item from a pool of products/things/stuff that have been preselected by the Cartel Leadership. Now, due to some restrictions, I am unable to publically announce some of the, as-yet, unapproved items, but I can tease you with some of the already approved items. But i won't tell you the process for getting them yet, because this is a teaser, not a trailer! Wait for the motion picture, damnit!

So here goes.

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As it stands, we've got nearly 20 items already listed and ready to go - as I mentioned earlier, just waiting on that last bit of admin approval before we start showering you guys with gifts!

Unfortunately, rewards cannot come without triumph...

[Battle for Klatooine]
Insoulent, Naruto667 and myself are all locked in a fiersome battle over the fate and ownership of the fine planet of Klatooine. You're more than welcome to peer over our shoulders, making us even more nervous about messing it up by clicking on this here link! So far everything is going swimmingly, with all players (even the filthy imperial ones) playing nice, writing collaboratively, and even working together to make the fight as easy as possible to understand for everyone involved. I'm really proud of not only the Cartel members, but also the Imperial members for stepping up to the plate for this battle in such a mature, open-minded fashion and I really hope this trend continues with any other inter-faction events we participate in!

So feel free to have a read and support our guys in their fight against the ill-concieved plots of the Imperium!

[Kajidics of the Grand Council]
As you may have noticed, we've got a write up that has been recently added to the Database. The Hutt Grand Council is a thread that outlines the leading Lorda's (NPC) that make up the Council in addition to Borga the Hutt, all under the undisputed leadership of Vero. It's a pretty interesting read, which goes into alot of detail about the variety and scope of the operations that the Cartel actually runs.

Hopefully this gives us all a little more fuel to help us get deeper into our roleplays and such! And we're going to help you do that with a bit of a change up on the...

...I'm just saying, I'm on fire with these segues today...

[Missions & Bounties]
Matt, Insoulent and I have been looking at the way we handle our Missions and Bounties - again, looking at what benefits you, our members, and how you can contribute to the overrall success of the faction. What we're looking at doing is something similar to what the Rebel Faction has done (...when I was running it, mind you :P ) and start releasing goal-oriented mission "packs".

So, as an example, we're looking at say some big faction-important business. We're looking at a 10-mission pack that, upon completion, means the Cartel has that asset to help us in our fight against the opression of the law-abiding muppets, and to further fill our wallets!

Any suggestions that you have are, of course, more than welcome! Send them to any one of us and we'll see if your concepts can fit in with what we're trying to accomplish!!

Thanks for coming and having a read, guys.
If you have any questions, queries or suggestions, feel free to post here!

Thanks peeps,
Cassanova

 
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Congrats Insoulent! Oh and Duke :p


Are our guidelines too hard to meet? What are your thoughts on the matter?!
It was mentioned in discussion on the previous newsletter that bounties counted as missions on a 2:1 ratio for promotion, maybe add that little tidbit to the guidelines?
 

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My suggestion for promotion rewards:

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t was mentioned in discussion on the previous newsletter that bounties counted as missions on a 2:1 ratio for promotion, maybe add that little tidbit to the guidelines?
Good spot, Frank. Changed that too!
 

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GG Insoulent for being AAFL

My suggestion for promotion rewards:

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That all we get for promotions know.
 
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So, as Starburns mentioned... what do characters that aren't suited for bounty hunting do as far as promotions go? There's missions of course (and I plan on doing several in the near future), but if doing bounties factor in so heavily or outweigh the actual gains from missions that leaves me in a bit of a quandary. I don't want to break character just to see her promoted. Thoughts, gents?
 

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We're evaluating what types of characters are on the roster and taking into consideration characters like yours, Befallen, and we're writing all new missions to accomodate and encourage that diversity from the "run and gun" type of character. That being said, I'm certain Xora's pheremonal and feminine wiles surely would come in handy in the capture of a Bounty? ;)

But in all seriousness - we are working on these as fast as we can, and you could see some mission packs as soon as the end of the weekend if we get time, if not early next week! We're really aiming for quality, quantity and variety for our members on these upcoming mission packs!
 

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Gaja, our resident Serbian funny-guy and ideas man.

I appreciate you being nice and wording that in a way the lets people know that I do nothing. :charmed:

Stocked about the Promotion Rewards btw. Think people will love it when it's all done. :3
 

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Wait a minute...you posted this on Friday....the 13th.........WTF Cassa!!!!!
 

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Need moar bounties so I can successfully dethrone bee. <-<

On a more serious note though, I like the way the Cartel is heading. Can't wait to see the promotion rewards and the new mission packs.
 

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It's also a full moon here. And windy as all hell.

I'm not superstitious, so s'all good!
 

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Know what'd be kinda cool? If like the Bounties, there was a smuggling system too. It's an archetype which just dies out because lack of stuff to do with it.
 

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We're evaluating what types of characters are on the roster and taking into consideration characters like yours, Befallen, and we're writing all new missions to accomodate and encourage that diversity from the "run and gun" type of character. That being said, I'm certain Xora's pheremonal and feminine wiles surely would come in handy in the capture of a Bounty? ;)

But in all seriousness - we are working on these as fast as we can, and you could see some mission packs as soon as the end of the weekend if we get time, if not early next week! We're really aiming for quality, quantity and variety for our members on these upcoming mission packs!
Well, yeah, there's nothing stopping her from pursuing bounties short of her personality. I'm sure some of you have read her by now. That's, well, beneath her. But, its true she could use her 'gifts' to capture bounties that way. However, the idea of new missions sounds wonderful! I can't wait to see what's revealed.

Also, I am digging the changes, reveals and direction the Cartel is going in. This is awesome. Oh, and Insoulent and Duke! Congrats, braheems!
 

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But in all seriousness - we are working on these as fast as we can, and you could see some mission packs as soon as the end of the weekend if we get time, if not early next week! We're really aiming for quality, quantity and variety for our members on these upcoming mission packs!
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Sneaky update on those mission packs. Matt, Insoulent and I have been bustin'balls on these rippers and we've got some absolute gems for you guys to play through. As it stands we've written.... *checks for accuracy* ...we've written seventeen (17) missions with a pretty decent variety of tasks. We've got alot more coming as well mind you, so hold onto yer knickers.

Shit gon'getkah-waayyzee.
 

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Sneaky update on those mission packs. Matt, Insoulent and I have been bustin'balls on these rippers and we've got some absolute gems for you guys to play through. As it stands we've written.... *checks for accuracy* ...we've written seventeen (17) missions with a pretty decent variety of tasks. We've got alot more coming as well mind you, so hold onto yer knickers.

Shit gon'getkah-waayyzee.

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