Flapp
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Posted - 2007.01.03 23:54:00 -
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 Originally by: Rebellion
Originally by: Nez Perces
What happens if communication has been established, and it has been assessed that non-confrontational protest is not the reason for lack of participation? What happens if suspicions of a corp's willingness to participate were present before the war.. and the advent of war has simply confirmed these suspicions. Bluntly speaking they are a bunch of bears and they are not gonna fight for love nor money.
That's when you revoke all of their access and tell them to shape up or ship out, but only after you've confirmed that. One wonders why they joined an "Alliance" anyway.
I disagree.
Any corp. being kicked in times of war means bad news for an alliance, affecting morale, creating logistical problems as the "gap" might need some filling up, makes people think about if they might be next.
You are trying to rally your soldiers. Instead try to motivate your civilians:
Industrial corps for example, nobody wants to fight anything but Bistot. Fine, let them have it their way as long as they contribute to the war effort (read logistics) in a sufficient manner.
Now you could ask them to produce so and so many BS per week, but that is just as unefficient as pulling out the taxbook.
A better way would be to integrate them into the war machinery. Examples for Good War News(TM):
"We lost 3 Geddons last week while X corp. produced 5."
"In order to supply the front lines, X corp. made a total of 1200 jumps, bringing those 80 new Rifters to our outpost."
Surely this sounds like cheap propaganda on first glance, but i hopefully got the point across: Make the miners feel important because they are!
Don't forget to make those deals known alliance wide in the first place: Direct and clear communications not only strengthen the alliance bonds, they also allow you to kick those miners should they fail to deliver - and this time nobody would be worried as everybody knew what was going on.
Two side notes on this:
1) As an alliance leader, be as consistent as possible. Ideally, you want everyone, especially corp. leaders to know you good enough that they are able to predict your next move.
2) Right, there are spies. So what? Good alliance leaders make strategic decisions only, so go tell your enemy.
Side note on side note two:
If i were a FC and my pilots were troubled by possible TS compromising, i'd just have them all shut down their mics.
Then i'd play some music for them. 
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