Actually I did consider forming it as a Faction initially. But since it, on the outside, is a “legit business” first with its shady dealings kept on the downlow, I opted for a business. However, if enough people feel it would best be suited as a faction, I have no problems with that. I do fully anticipate there being heavy animosity between the…[Read more]

As I restated- DEPD employment will be SEVERELY limited. And any member of DEPD applying for offduty work MUST have approval first from Geo before they will be considered. As far as just guarding- that’s their open role… security. More on the down-low is the fact that they will take jobs outside of traditional security forces: i.e.,…[Read more]

As mentioned, I’m doubling back on focusing on offduty DEPD for hires. And will be heavily limiting the number of them we allow to work for Belltower.

Also as far as the biddig goes, since no Linden will be involved and you are right in stating people magically get rich, it’ll be more so based on established businesses as to who gets
The contract. An example would be say, Pizza Slut which is a well established business in DE bidding against say a new startup business in Dead Drop. Pizza Slut…[Read more]

Actually I think that the easiest workaround to this will be to have it stated in the employment contract (in order to join the group) that those identified as “Critical Public Servants” (DEPD, DEFD, and DEMH) CAN apply for employment with Belltower, HOWEVER they MUST be approved for additional employment with Belltower FIRST by their respective…[Read more]

Well as mentioned above after talking to Geo, I may actually limit DEPD offduty employment rather than towards. Granted I do have a few people already interested in employment (non-DEPD members).

That does bring up a very valid point that I hadn’t fully thought of- as far as employing offduty Police. You might be right in bringing up to limit the employment of DEPD personnel due to that very fact of conflict of interest. Naturally I just assume that DEPD (offduty) would be most likely to go to Belltower. As a compromise, I can certainly…[Read more]

Eh- AOs do make things interesting. There’s a reason I left strictly text-based RP on things like Yahoo and whatnot for SL. That being said, substance takes priority over swag. You can have the most articulate avatar and AO ou there, but if you can’t RP worth a damn, ain’t nobody got time for that. The caveat to that is that I think it is…[Read more]

In response to RL experience in an RP setting, rather than being confrontational (OOC-wise) and calling someone out on things that they genuinely may not know (I.e., I highly doubt the majority at DEMH are RL doctors, surgical techs, nurses, etc, highly doubt the majority of DEPD have RL experience in Law Enforcement, etc), those with RL knowledge…[Read more]

All very good questions, and I do admit that when I initially put the proposal in, I was pressed for time. So allow me to touch on each:

Long run my goal is to help expand on some current storylines throughout the city, as well as open the opportunity for others by injecting a new dynamic into the city. Like many Real World PMCs, we will try to…[Read more]

Well it is technically already being built since I don’t believe in buildings just magically appearing out of nowhere, and thus all the construction at my land parcel in Dead Drop. 😛 It will be slightly geared in hiring towards off duty DEPD however, although in NO WAY a requirement. The biggest thing to work out will be both IC and OOC…[Read more]