02-02-2014, 06:42 AM | #11 |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
Many issues seem already sorted out: wealth and status are unconnected, status and rank are independent (I see nothing wrong with implementing compulsory status buys to match rank gains).
Maintaining status by minimum CoL expenditures would seem to be switched off, but you might want to build or impute a 'Way of Living' requirement that embodies proper imperial conduct. |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
Yeah. The issue remains, though, how wide the range of Status ought to be, and such particulars. Ought Lt-commander Tomiko Eichberger to be Status 4 or Status 6.
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02-02-2014, 07:47 AM | #13 |
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02-02-2014, 07:56 AM | #14 |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
About the same. Being a naval engineer doesn't exactly weigh in the balance compared with being one of the two adult Eichbergers. On on hand she could blow it worse, e.g. if she resigned her commission. On the other she could pick things up a bit if she were co-opted to the Council. But she'd have to show a lot more interest in policy for that to become likely.
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02-02-2014, 08:33 AM | #15 | |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
Do you have a setting Status Table that you are trying to slot her into, or are you in the process of building one and wondering how it could be built to accommodate her ilk?
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As regards the activities of her forebears, what do they give her, in play, that other characters won't have? |
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But I would like to get a set of Status rules for the Empire that works correctly.
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02-02-2014, 09:31 AM | #17 |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
Courtesy Status 5-6, while actual Status is that of her Rank.
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02-02-2014, 10:30 AM | #18 |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
I suppose it could be exploited when dealing with monarchies. Tomi, of course, would never think of that and would hate it besides.
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02-02-2014, 10:50 AM | #19 | |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
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Status -1: performing artists, free-lance providers of personal services, free-lance content providers, and merchants vending comforts and luxuries Status 0: those with a personal reputation for furthering the Mission on their own initiative; authors of Empire-affirming journalism and fiction; routine functions in the bits of the Eichberger Trust that earn the money to keep the whole thing going and jobs in the Home Office that keeps IDJ habitable; ... Status 1: Colonial Office assistance departments or enlisted ranks of the Navy Status 2: People whose families have a long history of naval service; specific officeholders tbd Status 3: those whose family tradition of naval service goes back to the space navy of the Republic of Mayflower; higher officeholders tbd Status 4: imperial family without portfolios Status 5: imperial family with portfolios higher than status 4. You could stop there for SS, and have higher ups represented by Ranks beyond that. Or you can elaborate higher gradations for active imperials plus any exceptional individuals they bring in as viziers or whatever. |
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02-02-2014, 10:55 AM | #20 |
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Re: Flat Black: Status in the Imperial Service
Courtesy Status is for titles without reaction modifiers or real access to power. This is the reverse. Tomi Eichberger doesn't have a title of any sort, but really does have proximity to power and influence.
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